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"George J. Dance"  wrote in message
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On Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 6:08:10 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 4:21:21 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
>
> <snipped for focus>
>
> > These rhymes are forced, the sentences are awkward, and wtf is
> > "cherry-ripe"?  I Googled it and got a Cadbury candy bar.
> >
> > No one talks like your narrator.  No one dismisses anything as "tripe"
> > these days.  No one ever says "emote."  And no one (and I mean this
> > quite literally) has ever substituted "cherry-ripe" for "ripe cherries."
> > No one.
>
> Well, Thomas Campion has a poem titled "Cherry-Ripe", from The Oxford Book
> of English Verse, 1250-1900, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
> (1900):
>
> https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50324/cherry-ripe
>
> Thomas Campion biography:
>
> https://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Campion
>
> "Thomas Campion (12 February 1567 - 1 March 1620) was an English poet,
> composer, and physician. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls him "one of the
> outstanding songwriters of the brilliant English lutenist school of the
> late 16th and early 17th centuries," and says of his poems: "His lyric
> poetry reflects his musical abilities in its subtle mastery of rhythmic
> and melodic structure."

You're on the right track. But it's not that poem. I do have Campion's poem
on the blog, though under the title I originally learned (the 1st line):
http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/11/there-is-garden-in-her-face-thomas.html

The poem I was thinking of is this later one by Robert Herrick:
http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/cherry-ripe-robert-herrick.html

That would be important in case some future academics want to write about
the subject. Herrick was a favorite of his, along with Housman (the other
living ghost, emoting about the "cherry-blossomed boughs"), and he was
actually the guy who got me reading their work.

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