The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Weeping Cherry

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

23. THE WEEPING CHERRY.

I saw a cherry weep, and why?
Why wept it? but for shame
Because my Julia's lip was by,
And did out-red the same.
But, pretty fondling, let not fall
A tear at all for that:
Which rubies, corals, scarlets, all
For tincture wonder at.