The Disappointme (Aphra Behn Poems)
1.One Day the Amarous Lisander,By an impatient Passion sway'd,Surpris'd fair Cloris, that lov'd Maid,Who cou'd defend her self no longer ...
1.One Day the Amarous Lisander,By an impatient Passion sway'd,Surpris'd fair Cloris, that lov'd Maid,Who cou'd defend her self no longer ...
A Shepherd's Boy (he seeks no better name)Led forth his flocks along the silver Thame,Where dancing sun-beams n the waters ...
Ye Lords and Commons, Men of Wit, And Pleasure about Town; Read this ere you translate one BitOf Books of ...
Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell!Thy fools no more I'll tease:This year in peace, ye critics, dwell,Ye harlots, sleep at ease!Soft ...
THERE'S no better dog nor Hardcastle's Rake:Not a hundred guineas would Hardcastle take.For his wall-eyed dog: an' Ben is a ...
Aa! sich a galeWill bring doon mony owd trees in t' dale. Two purl an' two plain.I wish ...
I can remember the plaint of the wind on the moor, Crying at dawning, and crying at shut of ...
TO make this little house my very own Could not be done by law alone. Though covenant and deed convey ...
Somewhere a pine is green, Just where who knoweth, And in a garth unseen A rose-tree bloweth. These are ordained ...
IT was the House of Quietness To which I came at dusk; The garth was lit with roses And heavy ...
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter ...
SWEET rois of vertew and of gentilness, Delytsum lily of everie lustynes, Richest in bontie and in bewtie clear, And ...
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
I. And Willy, my eldest-born, is gone, you say, little Anne? Ruddy and white, and strong on his legs, he ...
Mad Patsy said, he said to me, That every morning he could see An angel walking on the sky; Across ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
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