10 Robert Herrick Quotes on Beauty

Robert Herrick quotes on beauty

2. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last.

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.

9. Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

10. 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.

12. A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness.

13. A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

18. Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon.

27. But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

31. Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; Oh how that glittering taketh me!

32. Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes Which starlike sparkle in their skies; Nor be you proud that you can see All hearts your captives, yours yet free