greykit.poetry — #dress
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1648
[robert-herrick]
Delight in Disorder
An erring lace, a neglectful cuff, a careless shoe-string — the poem catalogues everything wrong with a woman's dress and finds each fault more bewitching than art that is too precise in every part.
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1648
[robert-herrick]
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Six lines that watch silk move: the liquefaction of her clothes, then the brave vibration each way free — and the poet, undone by the glitter.
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1616
[ben-jonson]
Simplex Munditiis
Against the powdered, perfumed, endlessly adjusted face: where art hides its causes, nothing is sound — give him instead robes loosely flowing and hair as free, a sweet neglect that strikes the heart and not just the eye.