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Upon Julia's Hair Filled With Dew

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Dew sat on Julia's hair,
And spangled too,
Like leaves that laden are
With trembling dew.

Or glittered to my sight,
As when the beams
Have their reflected light
Danced by the streams.




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