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Poem by Robert Herrick


Upon Julia's Ribbon


As shews the air when with a rain-bow graced,
So smiles that ribbon 'bout my Julia's waist;
Or like——Nay, 'tis that Zonulet of love,
Wherein all pleasures of the world are wove.



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. Felicity Quick of Flight
  2. Upon a Painted Gentlewoman
  3. Purposes
  4. Upon Tears
  5. On Himself (Live by thy Muse thou shalt, when others die)


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