Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Delight in Disorder - by Robert Herrick

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
Enthrals the crimson stomacher:
A cuff neglectful, and thereby 
Ribbons 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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