Love

Upon Julia's Fall.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

IVLIA was carelesse, and withall,
She rather took, then got a fall:
The wanton Ambler chanc'd to see
Part of her leggs sinceritie:
And ravish'd thus, It came to passe,
The Nagge (like to the Prophets Asse)
Began to speak, and would have been
A telling what rare sights h'ad seen:
And had told all; but did refraine,
Because his Tongue was ty'd againe.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Fall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/25/.

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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Fall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/25/.

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