Aphra Behn Desire 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.
    1.

    One Day the Amarous Lisander,
    By an impatient Passion sway'd,
    ...
  • 3.
    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;
    ...
  • 4.
    A thousand Martyrs I have made,
    All sacrific'd to my desire;
    A thousand Beauties have betray'd,
    That languish in resistless Fire.
    ...
  • 5.
    Love in Fantastique Triumph satt,
    Whilst bleeding Hearts around him flow'd,
    For whom Fresh pains he did create,
    And strange Tryanic power he show'd;
    ...
  • 6.
    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;
    ...
  • 7.
    A thousand martyrs I have made,
    All sacrificed to my desire,
    A thousand beauties have betray'd
    That languish in resistless fire:
    ...
Total 7 Desire Poems by Aphra Behn

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The things we thought that we should do
We other things have done
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