English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 211. A Sweet Disorder |
| | | Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
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| A SWEET disorder in the dress | |
| Kindles in clothes a wantonness:— | |
| A lawn about the shoulders thrown | |
| Into a fine distractión,— | |
| 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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