Love

Upon Julias Recovery.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

DRoop, droop no more, or hang the head
Ye Roses almost withered;
Now strength, and newer Purple get,
Each here declining Violet.
O Primroses! let this day be
A Resurrection unto ye;
And to all flowers ally'd in blood,
Or sworn to that sweet Sister-hood:
For Health on Julia's cheek hath shed
Clarret, and Creame comming led.
And those her lips doe now appeare
As beames of Corrall, but more cleare.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julias Recovery.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/7/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julias Recovery.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/7/.

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