Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Herrick. 15911674258. Delight in Disorder
A 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 | 5 |
Enthrals the crimson stomacher: | |
A cuff neglectful, and thereby | |
Ribbands to flow confusedly: | |
A winning wave, deserving note, | |
In the tempestuous petticoat: | 10 |
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. |