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Poems upon several occasions

with a voyage to the Island of Love. By Mrs A. Behn
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

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TO Mrs. BEHN, ON THE PUBLISHING HER POEMS.
 
To ASTRÆA, on her Poems.
 
To the excellent Madam Behn, on her Poems.
 
To the Authour, on her Voyage to the Island of Love.
 
To the Lovely Witty Astræa, on her Excellent Poems.
 
Upon these and other Excellent Works of the Incomparable Astræa.
 
To the excellent Astræa.
 
To Madam A. Behn on the publication of her Poems.
 
To Madam Behn, on her Poems.
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POEMS UPON Several OCCASIONS.
 
The Golden Age.
 
A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland.
 
On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks.
 
On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter.
 
A Ballad on Mr. J. H. to Amoret, asking why I was so sad.
 
Our Cabal.
 
Mr. V. U.
 
Mr. G. V.
 
My dear Brother J. C.
 
My dear Amoret, Mris. B.
 
Mr. J. B.
 
Mr. Je. B.
 
Mr. N. R. V.
 
Mr. E. B. and Mrs. F M.
 
Mr. J. H.
 
Mr. Ed. Bed.
 
SONG. The Willing Mistriss.
 
SONG. Love Arm'd.
 
SONG. The Complaint.
 
SONG. The Invitation.
 
SONG.
 
To Mr. Creech (under the Name of Daphnis) on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius.
 
To Mrs. W. On her Excellent Verses (Writ in Praise of some I had made on the Earl of Rochester) Written in a Fit of Sickness.
 
The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse; To a New Tune.
 
The Return.
 
On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream, and sent to me in a Morning before I was Awake.
 
To my Lady Morland at Tunbrige.
 
Song to Ceres. In the Wavering Nymph, or Mad Amyntas.
 
Song in the same Play, by the Wavering Nymph.
 
The Disappointment.
 
On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot, given me by Sir R.O.
 
The Dream. A Song.
 
A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation.
 
The Reflection: A Song.
 
SONG. To Pesibles Tune.
 
SONG. On her Loving Two Equally.
 
The Counsel. A Song.
 
SONG. The Surprize.
 
SONG.
 
The Invitation: A Song.
 
Silvio's Complaint: A SONG
 
In Imitation of Horace.
 
To Lysander, who made some Verses on a Discourse of Loves Fire.
 
A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court, between Damon and Sylvia.
 
On Mr. J. H. In a Fit of Sickness.
 
To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart then 'twas worth.
 
To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy called The New Utopia
 
To Lysander at the Musick-Meeting.
 
An Ode to Love.
 
Love Reveng'd A Song.
 
SONG. To a New Scotch Tune.
 
The Cabal at Nickey Nackeys.
 
A Paraphrase on the Eleventh. Ode Out of the first Book of Horace.
 
A Translation.
 
A PARAPHRASE On Ovid's Epistle of OENONE to PARIS.

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Mr. Je. B.

VVith whom the young Amyntas came,
The Author of my Sighs and Flame:
For I'll confess that Truth to you,
VVhich every Look of mine can show.
Ah how unlike the rest he appears!
VVith Majesty above his years!
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His Eyes so much of Sweetness dress,
Such Wit, such Vigour too express;
That 'twou'd a wonder be to say,
I've seen the Youth, and brought my Heart away.
Ah Cloris! Thou that never wert
In danger yet to lose a Heart,
Guard it severely now, for he
Will startle all thy Constancy:
For if by chance thou do'st escape
Unwounded by his Lovely Shape,
Tempt not thy Ruine, lest his Eyes
Joyn with his Tongue to win the Prize:
Such Softness in his Language dwells,
And Tales of Love so well he tells,
Should'st thou attend their Harmony,
Thou'dst be Undone, as well as I;
For sure no Nymph was ever free,
That could Amyntas hear and see.
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