Cherry-Ripe / Robert Herrick

Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882), Cherry Picker

 in Bucharest, 1869. Wikimedia Commons.

Cherry-Ripe

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones, come and buy.
If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer: There,
Where my Julia's lips do smile;
There's the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.

~~
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
from Hesperides, 1648

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

Robert Herrick biography

See also: There is a Garden in her face, by Thomas Campion

"Cherry-Ripe" read by Hans Ostrom.