Cherry-Ripe

Robert Herrick

Teacher card

Published: 1648, in Hesperides and Noble Numbers
Length: 8 lines, 46 words, 1 word in 15 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: birthday, love
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

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

Robert Herrick (died 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648), lines 1172–1179 of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

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See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
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