Upon Julia’s Breasts

By Robert Herrick

Display thy breasts, my Julia, there let me

Behold that circummortal purity;

Between whose glories, there my lips I’ll lay,

Ravished in that fair Via Lactea.

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About this Poet

Almost forgotten in the 18th century, and in the 19th century alternately applauded for his poetry’s lyricism and condemned for its “obscenities,” Robert Herrick is, in the latter half of the 20th century, finally becoming recognized as one of the most accomplished nondramatic poets of...

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Upon Julia’s Breasts

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Upon Parson Beanes

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Another Grace for a Child

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The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad

Upon Julia’s Breasts