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Author: Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Title: 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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Print source: 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.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
London: Printed for Francis Saunders ..., 1697.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27316.0001.001
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TO The Right Honourable, JAMES, EARL of SALISBURY, VISCOUNT CRAMBORN, AND BARON of ISLINGTON.
TO Mrs. BEHN, ON THE PUBLISHING HER POEMS.
To ASTRAEA, 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 Astraea, on her Excellent Poems.
Upon these and other Excellent Works of the Incomparable Astraea.
To the excellent Astraea.
To Madam A. Behn on the publication of her Poems.
To Madam Behn, on her Poems.
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.
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,
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. To a New Scotch Tune.
Silvio's Complaint: A SONG, To a Fine Scotch Tune.
In Imitation of Horace.
To Lysander, who made some Ver∣ses on a Discourse of Loves Fire.
A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court, between Damon and Syl∣via.
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.
A TABLE.
A VOYAGE TO THE Isle of LOVE.
An Account from Lisander to Lysidas his Friend.
The TRUCE.
LOVE's Power.
The CHARACTER.
RESPECT.
INQUIETUDE.
The REFLECTION.
Little CARES, or Little Arts to please.
The DREAM.
HOPE.
The River of PRETENSION.
The Princess HOPE.
LOVE's Resentment.
The City of DISCRETION.
The silent Confession.
The Den of Cruelty.
The River of Despair.
The RESOLVE.
The QUESTION.
The TRANSPORT.
CONFIDENCE.
The REFLECTION.
ABSENCE.
To LOVE.
RIVALS.
JEALOUSIE.
The COMPLAINT.
The PENITENT.
The City of LOVE.
LOVE's Temple.
HONOUR.
The LOSS.
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TO THE Earl of Melford, &c. KNIGHT Of the most Noble Order OF THE THISTLE.
To Mrs. B. on her Poems.
Advertisement TO THE READER.
license
LYCIDUS: OR, THE Lover in Fashion, &c.
The Table
A Miscellany OF POEMS.
To a Fair Lady, sent with a Miscellany of Poems.
To Urania in Mourning.
SONG.
On Beauty. A PINDARIC.
SONG.
SONG.
To the Heroick Antonia.
To Laurinda.
On a Lady singing.
To Mr. W.
Armida: Or, The Fair Gill.
Predictions for Saturday next.
To Astrea, on her sending me a Bottle of Orange-floure Water.
To Cloris going into the Country.
SONG.
To a Lady, (whom he never saw, nor had any description of,) to prove he Loves her.
Song
Sleeeping on her fair hand.
To Gloriana on saying I had a tough heart.
Sent with Ovids Epistles, to a fair Lady.
Sent with a Basket of Fruit:
Love cannot be indifferent.
To Astrea, On her absence, during which I cou'd not write.
To the most accomplisht Heroick, and incom∣parable, the Lady Antonia.
Sent with Cowleys workes to Astrea.
To my Heart.
DIALOGUE
SONG.
Strephon to his three Mistresses.
To the Fam'd Antonia, on her Dwelling.
SONG. on occasion.
On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou'd not help Loving.
On the Death of Melantha.
To the NIGHTINGAL coming in the Spring.
A PASTORAL On the Marriage of the right Honourable the Earle of Ossery to the Lady Mary Somerset.
A Song.
A PASTORAL On the Death of His late Majesty
SONG.
Strephons complaint banisht from Sacarisa.
An Elegie
A PINDARICK To Mrs. Behn on her Poem on the Coronation.
To Mr. Wolseley on his Preface to Valen∣tinian.
Mr. Wolsely's Answer to the forgoing Copy.
On the Honourable Sir Francis Fane, on his Play call'd the Sacrifice.
Cato's Answer to Labienus, when he ad∣vis'd him to consult the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon.
To his Grace the Duke of Ormond, upon his leaving the Government of Ireland.
SONG.
To Damon.
SONG of Basset,
To the Lord Bishop of Rochester, on His History of the Plot written by His late Majesties command. And an Apologie for these Verses call'd the Advice to a Pain∣ter, by the same Author.
Upon the Arrival of his Excellency Henry Earle of Clarendon, And his entring up∣on the Government of Ireland, Jan: 1685/6.
A Poem against fruition written on the read∣ing in Mountains Essay:
To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. ODE.
To Alexis, On his saying, I lov'd a Man that talk'd much.
A PASTORAL Pindarick. On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorset and Midlesex, to the Lady Mary Compton. A DIALOGUE.
On Desire A Pindarick.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG. 1.
A Pastoral Song on the late King.
The Departure.
To Amintas, Upon reading the Lives of some of the Ro∣mans,
On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas.
SONG.
On a Blew spot made in a Ladys neck by Gun∣powder,
On Dydo.
SONG.
The Choyce.
A Letter to Astrea.
To Mrs B. from a Lady who had a desire to see her, and who complains on the ingra∣titude of her fugitive Lover.
To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin'd more than Woman.