| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | Art above Nature | | By Robert Herrick |
| | To Julia
WHEN I behold a Forrest spread | |
| With silken trees upon thy head; | |
| And when I see that other Dresse | |
| Of flowers set in comlinesse: | |
| When I behold another grace | 5 |
| In the ascent of curious Lace, | |
| Which like a Pinacle doth shew | |
| The top, and the top-gallant too. | |
| Then, when I see thy Tresses bound | |
| Into an Ovall, square, or round; | 10 |
| And knit in knots far more than I | |
| Can tell by tongue; or true-love tie: | |
| Next, when those Lawnie Filmes I see | |
| Play with a wild civility: | |
| And all those airie silks to flow, | 15 |
| Alluring me, and tempting so: | |
| I must confesse, mine eye and heart | |
| Dotes less on Nature, than on Art. | | | | |
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