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Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast
by Robert Herrick

Noble Numbers (1647), Hesperides (1648). Works , edited by L.C. Martin, 1956 and Complete Poetry edited by J. Max Patrick, 1963.


Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast
by Robert Herrick

Have ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white?
Or else a cherry (double graced)
Within a lily? Centre placed?
Or ever marked the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?
Or seen rich rubies blushing through
A pure smooth pearl, and orient too?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neat niplet of her breast.


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