Upon Julia's Clothes

Robert Herrick

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Published: 1648, in Hesperides and Noble Numbers
Length: 6 lines, 37 words, 1 word in 12 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: love
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flowsThe liquefaction of her clothes.

Next, when I cast mine eyes and seeThat brave vibration each way free;O how that glittering taketh me!

Robert Herrick (died 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648), lines 13898–13904 of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

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