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Born in December 14, 1640 / Died in April 16, 1689 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Aphra Behn

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Song : 'Love Armed'

...  Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow’d, ...

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Song from ‘Lycidus’

...   In vain she now attracts and mourns, ...

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A Congratulatory Poem

... With Murmering Osiers fring'd, and bending Willows Crown'd, ...

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Song: “How strongly does my passion flow”

...   But if it chance they both are by, ...

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A Thousand Martyrs

...  But both, though false, were well received ...

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To Lysander

... (On some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart than &lsquo ...

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Angellica’s Lament

... Reflected all the weakness of my soul, and made me know ...

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Oh, How the Hand the Lover Ought to Prize

...   When dear love-secrets ’twill impart: ...

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Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before

... The Seventh dear pledge the Nuptial Joys had given, ...

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On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester

... s gone; Think how he loved, and writ, and sighed, and spoke, ...

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Love's Witness

... They’re serious Thoughts, digested and resolv’d ...

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To the Fair Clorinda

... st us pain, While the bright Nymph betrays us to the Swain ...

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The Willing Mistriss

...   Whilst those his thoughts Exprest: ...

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The Disappointment

...   She Cry'd — Cease — cease — your vain desire, ...

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The Dream

... ‘Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, ...