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UPON THE NIPPLES OF JULIA'S BREAST by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: HAVE YE BEHELD (WITH MUCH DELIGHT)
Last Line: IS EACH NEATE NIPLET OF HER BREAST.
Subject(s): BREASTS;
Have ye beheld (with much delight)
A red-Rose peeping through a white?
Or else a Cherrie (double grac't)
Within a Lillie? Center plac't?
Or ever mark't the pretty beam,
A Strawberry shewes halfe drown'd in Creame?
Or seen rich Rubies blushing through
A pure smooth Pearle, and Orient too?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neate Niplet of her breast.



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