1. Home »
  2. English Poets »
  3. Robert Herrick

UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Men say you're fair; and fair ye are, 'tis true;
But, hark! we praise the painter now, not you.




Quotes of the Day

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves

• Emily Bronte



Poems of the Day
    John Kearsley Mitchell

    Thom's Statues
    Ah Rabin Burns ! if aught could raise Thy ghaist frae aut thy ain Scots' braes, And bring thee frae the gowand grave To sing another Doric ...