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Delight in Disorder

Robert Herrick

1648

A sweet disorder in the dresse

Kindles in cloathes 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 shooe-string, in whose tye

I see a wilde civility:

Doe more bewitch me, then when Art

Is too precise in every part.

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