Whenas in silks my Julia goes
Robert Herrick · 1648
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Robert Herrick. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
Whenas in silks my Julia goes
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free;
O how that glittering taketh me!