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

UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Till, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes!
Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see
That brave vibration each way free;
O how that glittering taketh




Quotes of the Day

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
• Anne Frank


Poems of the Day
  • Robert Bly
    Kneeling Down to Look into a Culvert
    by Robert Bly
    I kneel down to peer into a culvert. The other end seems far away. One cone of light floats in the shadowed water. This is how our children will look when we are dead. I kneel near floating shadowy ...