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Upon Julia's Clothes
Robert Herrick
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes!
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
—O how that glittering taketh me!
Poems by This Author
Corinna's Going a-Maying
by Robert Herrick
Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn
Delight in Disorder
by Robert Herrick
A sweet disorder in the dresse
Grace For a Child
by Robert Herrick
Here, a little child I stand
The Argument of His Book
by Robert Herrick
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers,
The Hag
by Robert Herrick
The Hag is astride
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing
by Robert Herrick
Bid me to live, and I will live
To Blossoms
by Robert Herrick
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
To Electra
by Robert Herrick
I dare not ask to kiss
To Sylvia, To Wed
by Robert Herrick
Let us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wed
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
by Robert Herrick
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Upon Shark
by Robert Herrick
Shark, when he goes to any publick feast
Further Reading
Poems and Clothing
"What Do Women Want?"
by Kim Addonizio
Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
by W. B. Yeats
Black Jackets
by Thom Gunn
Black Nikes
by Harryette Mullen
Borrowed Dress
by Cathy Colman
Coat
by Peg Boyers
Couture
by Mark Doty
Dialect of a Skirt
by Erica Miriam Fabri
Dressmaker
by Éireann Lorsung
Duality
by Tina Chang
Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits
by Liam Rector
My Shoes
by Charles Simic
Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy
by Donald Justice
Old Coat
by Liam Rector
Red Shoes
by Honor Moore
Shirt
by Robert Pinsky
The Plaid Dress
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Wedding Dress
by Michael Waters
White T-shirt
by Lewis Ellingham