Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Cherry-Ripe

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,

Full and fair ones; come and buy.

If so be you ask me where

They do grow, I answer: There

Where my Julia's lips do smile;

There's the land, or cherry-isle,

Whose plantations fully show

All the year where cherries grow.

— Robert Herrick
1591-1674   


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