Robert Herrick



UPON JULIA'S RIBAND.


AS shows the air when with a rainbow grac'd,
So smiles that riband 'bout my Julia's waist
Or like—nay 'tis that zonulet of love,
Wherein all pleasures of the world are wove.





Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 47.


Venus and Amor. (c.1536?)
Lucas Cranach, the Younger.
Alte Pinakothek, Munich.


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