Love

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

HAve ye beheld (with much delight)
A red-Rose peeping through a white?
Or else a Cherrie (double grac't)
Within a Lillie? Center plac't?
Or ever mark't the pretty beam,
A Strawberry shewes halfe drown'd in Creame?
Or seen rich Rubies blushing through
A pure smooth Pearle, and Orient too?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neate Niplet of her breast.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/442/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/442/.

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