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Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:05:45
Publish Date: 2019-11-04 16:14:05
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Today's poem is Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder."


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

Enthrals the crimson stomacher;

A cuff neglectful, and thereby

Ribands to flow confusedly;

A winning wave, deserving note,

In the tempestuous petticoat;

A careless shoe-string, 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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