Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик))

A Request to the Graces

Ponder my words, if so that any be
Known guilty here of incivility;
Let what is graceless, discomposed, and rude,
With sweetness, smoothness, softness be endued:
Teach it to blush, to curtsey, lisp, and show
Demure, but yet full of temptation, too.
Numbers ne'er tickle, or but lightly please,
Unless they have some wanton carriages:—
This if ye do, each piece will here be good
And graceful made by your neat sisterhood.

1. Upon Mrs Eliz. Wheeler, under the Name of Amarillis
2. Upon Love: By Way of Question and Answer
3. The Lily in a Crystal
4. To a Gentlewoman, Objecting to Him His Gray Hairs
5. To the Water-Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain

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