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To Julia, In Her Dawn, Or Daybreak.

By Robert Herrick

Topics: classic

By the next kindling of the day,     My Julia, thou shalt see,     Ere Ave-Mary thou canst say     I'll come and visit thee.     Yet ere thou counsel'st with thy glass,     Appear thou to mine eyes     As smooth, and nak'd, as she that was     The prime of paradise.     If blush thou must, then blush thou through     A lawn, that thou mayst look     As purest pearls, or pebbles do     When peeping through a brook.     As lilies shrin'd in crystal, so     Do thou to me appear;     Or damask roses when they grow     To sweet acquaintance there.

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Robert Herrick

About Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English Cavalier poet whose "Hesperides" (1648) contains over 1,200 poems. His carpe diem verse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") and lyric poems celebrate love, beauty, and the passing of time.

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