TO THE HANDSOME MISTRESS GRACE POTTER

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

As is your name, so is your comely face Touch'd every where with such diffused grace, As that in all that admirable round, There is not one least solecism found; And as that part, so every portion else Keeps line for line with beauty's parallels.

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