Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the island of love : also The lover in fashion, being an account from Lydicus to Lysander of his voyage from the island of love / by Mrs. A. Behn ; to which is added a miscellany of new poems and songs, by several hands.
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Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the island of love : also The lover in fashion, being an account from Lydicus to Lysander of his voyage from the island of love / by Mrs. A. Behn ; to which is added a miscellany of new poems and songs, by several hands.
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
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London :: Printed for Francis Saunders ...,
1697.
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"Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the island of love : also The lover in fashion, being an account from Lydicus to Lysander of his voyage from the island of love / by Mrs. A. Behn ; to which is added a miscellany of new poems and songs, by several hands." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27316.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Strephons complaint banisht from Sacarisa.
HOW long shall I thus live condemn'd to mournIn vain my Sacarisa's cruel scorn?For ever let these Eyes be shut to light,Since the bright Nymph has robb'd me of her sightAll other objects dull and useless growNo more their wonted form of colour shew.In glooming shades may I for ever liveSad as my sorrows, silent as my grave.Since Sacarisa's Eyes withdraw their lightDarkness to me is Day, the Morning Night.No more the Sun, the Worlds majestick Eye,Shall dart his golden Beams thrô th' Azure Sky:Let sullen darkness on the Earth displayHis sable wings t' eclips the hated dayAs when in Chaos, uncreated nightSat Brooding on the seeds of Infant-light,
descriptionPage 85
And no kind Beams did on the surface playTill the Sun rose and made a perfect day;So till my Nymph brings back her sparkling lightDarkness to me is Day, the Morning Night.
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