26.12.14

delight in disorder [robert herrick]

A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in clothes a wantonnesse:
A lawne about the shoulders thrown 
Into a fine distraction:
An erring lace, which here and there 
Enthralls the crimson stomacher:
A cuffe neglectfull, and thereby 
Ribbands to flow confusedly:
A winning wave (deserving note)
In the tempestuous petticote:
A careless shoe-string, in whose tye 
I see a wilde civility:
Doe more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.

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