Love
Song in the Same Play, by the Wavering Nymph
From Poems upon Several Occasions (1684)
Love
Pan, grant that I may never prove
So great a Slave to fall in love,
And to an Unknown Deity
Resign my happy Liberty:
I love to see the Amorous Swains
Unto my Scorn their Hearts resign:
With Pride I see the Meads and Plains
Throng’d all with Slaves, and they all mine:
Whilst I the whining Fools despise,
That pay their Homage to my Eyes.
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Behn, Aphra. “Song in the Same Play, by the Wavering Nymph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/behn/18/.
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Behn, Aphra. “Song in the Same Play, by the Wavering Nymph.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/behn/18/.
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