Love
Upon Julia's Clothes.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
WHen as in silks my Julia goes, (flowes
Ther, then (me thinks) how sweetly
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave Vibration each way free;
O how that glittering taketh me!
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Clothes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/788/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Clothes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/788/.
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