Uploaded on July 19, 2011

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
then, then, methinks how sweetly flows
that liquefaction of her clothes.

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
that brave vibration each way free;
O how that glittering taketh me!

—Robert Herrick
The Giant Book of Poetry
edited by William H. Roetzheim


7.19.2023: I still have that Jessica McClintock Gunne Sax prom gown, and I still love it.