It is probable that “Cherry Ripe” was suggested to Herrick by Richard Allison’s earlier poem, entitled:—
There is a Garden in Her Face.
There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lillies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
There cherries grow that none may buy,
Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do inclose,