Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: II. Nature and Art | | Delight in Disorder | | Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | | 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 |
| Inthralls the crimson stomacher; | |
| A cuff neglectful, and thereby | |
| Ribbons to flow confusedly; | |
| A winning wave, deserving note, | |
| In the tempestuous petticoat; | 10 |
| A careless shoestring, 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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