3 Robert Herrick Quotes on Metaphor

Robert Herrick quotes on metaphor

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.