The Cherry
Richard Allison
c.1570 to c.1615
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Of orient pearl a double row,
All that approach with eye or hand
There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
There cherries grow that none may buy
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
These sacred cherries to come nigh,
Threatening with piercing frowns to kill
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Her eyes like angels watch them still,
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Yet them no peer nor prince may buy