“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"Delight in Disorder".
Hesperides (1648)
“The religion of Christianity
Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty
Reject this Sweetness, for she wears
A smoky dress out of hell fires.”
"Thoughts about the Christian Doctrine of Eternal Hell"
Selected Poems (1962)
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