Love

Upon Julia's washing her self in the river.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

HOw fierce was I, when I did see
My Julia wash her self in thee!
So Lillies thorough Christall look:
So purest pebbles in the brook:
As in the River Julia did,
Halfe with a Lawne of water hid,
Into thy streames my self I threw,
And strugling there, I kist thee too;
And more had done (it is confest)
Had not thy waves forbad the rest.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's washing her self in the river.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/948/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's washing her self in the river.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/948/.

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