Robert Herrick


UPON HER FEET.

    HER pretty feet
    Like snails did creep
    A little out, and then,
As if they played at Bo-Beep,
    Did soon draw in again.
  Jan van Huysum. Hollyhocks and Other Flowers in a Vase. c. 1710
Hollyhocks and Other Flowers in a Vase.
Jan van Huysum, c. 1710.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 243.


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