Love

Upon Julia's unlacing her self.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

TEll, if thou canst, (and truly) whence doth come
This Camphire, Storax, Spiknard, Galbanum:
These Musks, these Ambers, and those other smells
(Sweet as the Vestrie of the Oracles.)
Ile tell thee; while my Julia did unlace
Her silken bodies, but a breathing space:
The passive Aire such odour then assum'd,
As when to Jove Great Juno goes perfum'd.
Whose pure-Immortall body doth transmit
A scent, that fills both Heaven and Earth with it.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's unlacing her self.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/416/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's unlacing her self.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/416/.

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