Aphra Behn Song Poems

  • 1.
    Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,
    Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,
    Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,
    Disease that has more Joys than Health;
    ...
  • 2.
    This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument,
    Contains all that was sweet and innocent ;
    The softest pratler that e'er found a Tongue,
    His Voice was Musick and his Words a Song ;
    ...
  • 3.
    How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring
    (Worthy thy Fame) a grateful Offering?
    I, who by Toils of Sickness, am become
    Almost as near as thou art to a Tomb?
    ...
  • 4.
    Love in fantastic triumph sat,
    Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow'd,
    For whom fresh pains he did create,
    And strange tyrannic power he shew'd;
    ...
  • 5.
    Love in fantastic triumph sat,
    Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow'd,
    For whom fresh pains he did create,
    And strange tyrannic power he shew'd;
    ...
  • 6.
    Love in fantastic triumph sate
    Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow'd,
    For whom fresh pains he did create
    And strange tyrannic power he show'd:
    ...
Total 6 Song Poems by Aphra Behn

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