| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Robert Herrick. 1591–1674 |
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| 258. Delight in Disorder |
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| 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. | |
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