Robert Herrick



UPON THE NIPPLES OF JULIA'S BREAST


HAVE ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white ?
Or else a cherry, double grac'd,
Within a lily centre plac'd ?
Or ever mark'd the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half-drown'd 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.




Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 203.



Portrait  of  a  Woman  Revealing  Her  Breasts.
Tintoretto, c.1570.   Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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