Quote #7
Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy! If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile; There's the land, or cherry-isle.
More from Robert Herrick
- It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
- Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree; Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en Death, to die for thee.
- Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
- Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee.
- Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl.
- What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
- Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew A baptism o'er the flowers.
- I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes…