DELIGHT IN DISORDER
by: Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- SWEET disorder
in the dress
- Kindles in clothes a wantonness;
- A lawn about the shoulders thrown
- Into a fine distraction;
- An erring lace, which here and there
- Enthrals the crimson stomacher;
- A cuff neglectful, and thereby
- Ribands to flow confusedly;
- A winning wave, deserving note,
- In the tempestuous petticoat;
- A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
- I see a wild civility:
- Do more bewitch me, than when art
- Is too precise in every part.
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