greykit.poetry — #wit

• 1648 [robert-herrick] Delight in Disorder
  Hesperides

  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.

  #lyric#dress#wit#1640s
• 1633 [john-donne] The Flea
  Songs and Sonets

  A flea that has bitten them both becomes, by three turns of outrageous logic, their marriage bed and marriage temple — and when she kills it and nothing is lost, the argument simply changes sides and wins anyway.

  #lyric#seduction#wit#1630s