206. Cherry-Ripe. Robert Herrick. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics

English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

206. Cherry-Ripe

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


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;	5
There’s the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.