| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Upon Julia’s Recovery | | By Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | | DROOP, droop, no more, or hang the head, | |
| Ye roses almost witherèd; | |
| Now strength and newer purple get, | |
| Each here declining violet; | |
| O primroses! let this day be | 5 |
| A resurrection unto ye, | |
| And to all flowers allied in blood, | |
| Or sworn to that sweet sisterhood: | |
| For health on Julia’s cheek hath shed | |
| Claret and cream comminglèd; | 10 |
| And those her lips do now appear | |
| As beams of coral, but more clear. | | | | |
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