Love
Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast.
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.
Cite this poem
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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