Robert Herrick



CHERRY-RIPE.


CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones ; come and buy.
If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer : There,
Where my Julia's lips do smile ;
There's the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.

 Vincenzo Campi. The Fruit Seller, detail, 1580.
Vincenzo Campi. The Fruit Seller, 1580. [det.]

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 21.
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