Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the island of love [ESTC R30218]

DMI number:

1720

Publication Date:

1697

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R30218

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Full Title:

POEMS | UPON | Several Occasion; | WITH A | VOYAGE | TO THE | Island of LOVE. | ALSO | The Lover in Fashion, being an Account | from [i]LYCIDUS[/i] to [i]LYSANDER,[/I] of | his Voyage from the Island of Love. | [rule] | By [i]Mrs A. BEHN.[/i] | [rule] | To which is added a Miscellany of New Poems | and Songs, by several Hands. | [rule] | [g]The Second Edition.[/g] | [i]LONDON.[/i] | Printed for [i]Francis Saunders[/i] in the Lower- | Walk of the [i]New-Exchange,[/i] 1697.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet and Collection of occasional pieces

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

CONTENTS: 1) 'Poems upon Several Occasions'. pp. 1-145. 2) Pagination begins again 'A Voyage to the Isle of Love.' pp. 1-128.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER FOR POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONs: 1) 'To The Right Honourable, James, Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cramborn, Baron of Islington.' pp. A2-A4v END MATTER FOR POETRY UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS: 1) Index 'A Table' pp. 145-6. 2) 'To Mrs. Behn, on the Publishing Her Poems.' pp. A5-b8v

References:

NCBEL 340 (1697)

Related People

Publisher:

Saunders Francis

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Oh wonder of thy sex where can we see

Page No:

pp. A8r-br

Poem Title:

To the Lovely Witty Astrea, on her Excellent Poems.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To speak of thee no muse will I invoke

Page No:

pp. A7v-A8v

Poem Title:

To the Author, on her Voyage to the Island of Love.

Attribution:

T.C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We all can well admire few well can praise

Page No:

pp. b5r-b5v

Poem Title:

To the excellent Astrea.

Attribution:

'By J.C.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the sad news was spread

Page No:

pp. b5v-b8r

Poem Title:

To Madam A. Behn on the publication of her Poems.

Attribution:

'By F. N. W.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye bold magicians in philosophy

Page No:

pp. bv-b5r

Poem Title:

Upon these and other Excellent Works of the Incomparable Astrea.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Madam | long has wit's injured empire been oppressed

Page No:

pp. A5r-A6r

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Behn, on the Publishing her Poems.

Attribution:

J.Cooper.

Attributed To:

Jeremy Taylor

First Line:

Tis not enough to read and to admire

Page No:

p. A6v

Poem Title:

To Astrea, on her Poems.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

J. Cooper

First Line:

Twas vain for Man the Laurels to pursue

Page No:

pp. A7r-A7v

Poem Title:

To the excellent Madam Behn, on her Poems.

Attribution:

J.Adams

Attributed To:

J. Adams

First Line:

When the almighty powers the universe had framed

Page No:

pp. b8v

Poem Title:

To Madam Behn, on her Poems.

Attribution:

'H. Watson.'

Attributed To:

H. Watson

First Line:

Blessed age when every purling stream

Page No:

pp. 1-12

Poem Title:

The Golden Age. A paraphrase on a Translation out of French.

Attribution:

Title page says it's by Aphra Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Farewell the great the brave and good

Page No:

pp. 13-19

Poem Title:

A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland. Pindarique.

Attribution:

Title page says it's by Aphra Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Whilst happy I triumphant stood

Page No:

pp. 19-24

Poem Title:

On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

What doleful cries are those that fright my sense

Page No:

pp. 24-8

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

My Amoret since you must know

Page No:

pp. 29-32

Poem Title:

A Ballad on Mr. J. H. to Amoret, asking why I was so sad.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Come my fair Cloris come away

Page No:

p. 33

Poem Title:

Our Cabal.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Urania's dressed as fine and gay

Page No:

p. 33

Poem Title:

Mr. V. U.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

After them Damon piping came

Page No:

pp. 34-5

Poem Title:

My dear Brother J.C.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With her the young Alexis came

Page No:

p. 34

Poem Title:

Mr. G. V.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Next Amoret the true delight

Page No:

pp. 35-6

Poem Title:

My dear Amoret, Mris. B.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With whom the young Amyntas came

Page No:

pp. 36-7

Poem Title:

Mr. Je. B.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With him the lovely Philocless

Page No:

pp. 37-9

Poem Title:

Mr. N. R. V.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Next hand in hand the smiling pair

Page No:

pp. 39-40

Poem Title:

Mr. E. B. and Mrs. F M.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Next Lysidas that haughty swain

Page No:

pp. 40-2

Poem Title:

Mr. J. H.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With him Philander who nere paid

Page No:

pp. 42-4

Poem Title:

Mr. Ed. Bed.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Amintas led me to a grove

Page No:

pp. 44-5

Poem Title:

Song. The Willing Mistriss.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Love in fantastic triumph far

Page No:

pp. 45-6

Poem Title:

Song. Love Arm'd.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Amintas that true hearted swain

Page No:

pp. 46-7

Poem Title:

Song. The Complaint.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Damon I cannot blame your will

Page No:

pp. 47-8

Poem Title:

Song. The Invitation.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

When Jemmy first began to love

Page No:

pp. 48-50

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Thou great young man permit amongst the crowd

Page No:

pp. 50-7

Poem Title:

To Mr. Creech (under the Name of Daphnis) on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Enough kind heaven to purpose I have lived

Page No:

pp. 57-60

Poem Title:

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.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

In vain I have laboured the victor to prove

Page No:

pp. 61-2

Poem Title:

The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse; To a New Tune.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Amyntas while you

Page No:

pp. 62-3

Poem Title:

The Return.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Amyntas if your wit in dreams

Page No:

pp. 63-5

Poem Title:

On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream, and sent to me in a Morning before I was Awake.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

As when a conqueror does in triumph come

Page No:

pp. 65-7

Poem Title:

To my Lady Morland at Tunbrige.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Ceres great goddess of the bounteous year

Page No:

pp. 68-9

Poem Title:

Song to Ceres. In the Wavering Nymph, or Mad Amyntas.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Pan grant that I may never prove

Page No:

p. 69

Poem Title:

Song in the same Play, by the Wavering Nymph.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

One day the amorous Lysander

Page No:

pp. 70-7

Poem Title:

The Disappointment.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

What means this knot in mystic order tied

Page No:

pp. 77-8

Poem Title:

On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot, given me by Sir R.O.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

The grove was gloomy all around

Page No:

pp. 78-80

Poem Title:

The Dream. A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Poor Damon art thou caught is it even so

Page No:

pp. 80-2

Poem Title:

A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Poor lost Serena to bemoan

Page No:

pp. 83-5

Poem Title:

The Reflection: A song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Twas when the fields were gay

Page No:

pp. 86-8

Poem Title:

Song. To Pesibles Tune.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

How strongly does my passion flow

Page No:

pp. 88-9

Poem Title:

Song. On her Loving Two Equally.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

A pox upon this needless scorn

Page No:

pp. 89-90

Poem Title:

The Counsel. A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Phillis whose heart was unconfined

Page No:

pp. 91-2

Poem Title:

Song. The Surprise.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Ah what can mean that eager joy

Page No:

pp. 92-3

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Come my Phillis let us improve

Page No:

pp. 93-4

Poem Title:

The Invitation: A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

In the blooming time of the year

Page No:

pp. 95-8

Poem Title:

Silvio's Complaint: A Song, To a Fine Scotch Tune.

Attribution:

Compiled under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

What mean those amorous curls of jet

Page No:

pp. 98-100

Poem Title:

In Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

Compiled under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

In vain dear youth you say you love

Page No:

pp. 100-2

Poem Title:

To Lysander, who made some Verses on a Discourse of Loves Fire.

Attribution:

Compiled under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Ah Sylvia if I still pursue

Page No:

pp. 102-5

Poem Title:

A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court, between Damon and Sylvia.

Attribution:

Compiled under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

If when the god of day retires

Page No:

pp. 106-9

Poem Title:

On Mr. J. H. In a Fit of Sickness.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Take back that heart you with such caution give

Page No:

pp. 109-12

Poem Title:

To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart then 'twas worth.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Beyond the merit of the age

Page No:

pp. 113-18

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy called The New Utopia.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

It was too much you gods to see and hear

Page No:

pp. 118-20

Poem Title:

To Lysander at the Musick-Meeting.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Dull love no more thy senseless arrows prize

Page No:

pp. 120-1

Poem Title:

An Ode to Love.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Celinda who did love disdain

Page No:

pp. 122-3

Poem Title:

Love Reveng'd, A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Young Jemmy was a lad

Page No:

pp. 123-5

Poem Title:

Song. To a New Scotch Tune.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

A pox of the statesman that's witty

Page No:

pp. 125-6

Poem Title:

The Cabal at nickel Nackeys.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Dear Silvia let's no farther strive

Page No:

pp. 126-7

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the Eleventh Ode Out of the first Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Lydia lovely maid more fair

Page No:

pp. 127-8

Poem Title:

A Translation.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

To thee dear Paris lord of my desires

Page No:

pp. 129-44

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on Ovid's Epistle of Oenone to Paris

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

At last dear Lycidas I'll set thee free

Page No:

pp. 1-3

Poem Title:

A Voyage to the Isle of Love.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With you unhappy eyes that first let in

Page No:

pp. 4-13

Poem Title:

The Truce.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Love when he shoots abroad his darts

Page No:

pp. 13-16

Poem Title:

Love's Power.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Such charms of youth such ravishment

Page No:

pp. 16-23

Poem Title:

The Character.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Him whom you see so awful and severe

Page No:

pp. 24-27

Poem Title:

Respect.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

A neighbouring villa which derives its name

Page No:

pp. 27-8

Poem Title:

Inquietude.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

What differing passions from what once I felt

Page No:

pp. 29-31

Poem Title:

The Reflection.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Thither all the amorous youth repair

Page No:

pp. 31-6

Poem Title:

Little Cares, or Little Arts to please.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

All trembling in my arms Aminta lay

Page No:

pp. 36-40

Poem Title:

The Dream.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Tis wondrous populous from the excess

Page No:

pp. 40-1

Poem Title:

Hope.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

This river's called pretension and its source

Page No:

pp. 41-3

Poem Title:

The River of Pretension.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

She blows the youthful lovers flame

Page No:

pp. 43-9

Poem Title:

The Princess Hope.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Must we eternal martyrdom pursue

Page No:

pp. 50-2

Poem Title:

Love's Resentment.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

The houses there retired in gardens are

Page No:

pp. 53-5

Poem Title:

The City of Discretion.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

And though I do not speak alas

Page No:

pp. 55-6

Poem Title:

The silent Confession.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

A den where tigers make the passage good

Page No:

pp. 57-9

Poem Title:

The Den of Cruelty.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Its torrent has no other source

Page No:

pp. 59-60

Poem Title:

The River of Despair.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Now my fair tyrant I despise your power

Page No:

pp. 61-2

Poem Title:

The Resolve.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Say my fair charmer must I fall

Page No:

pp. 62-72

Poem Title:

The Question.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Rejoice my new made happy soul rejoice

Page No:

pp. 72-3

Poem Title:

The Transport.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

A lady lovely with a charming mien

Page No:

pp. 74-5

Poem Title:

Confidence.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Oh with what pleasure did I pass away

Page No:

pp. 75-81

Poem Title:

The Reflection.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Her mourning languid eyes are rarely shown

Page No:

pp. 81-4

Poem Title:

Absence.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Fond Love thy pretty flatteries cease

Page No:

pp. 85-8

Poem Title:

To Love.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Rivals tis called a village where

Page No:

pp. 88-90

Poem Title:

Rivals.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

A palace that is more uneasy far

Page No:

pp. 90-3

Poem Title:

Jealousie.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Oft in my jealous transports I would cry

Page No:

pp. 93-5

Poem Title:

The Complaint.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With rigour arm yourself I cried

Page No:

pp. 96-7

Poem Title:

The Penitent.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

In this vast isle a famous city stands

Page No:

pp. 98-9

Poem Title:

The City of Love.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Midst this gay court a famous temple stands

Page No:

pp. 99-104

Poem Title:

Love's Temple.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Honour's a mighty phantom which around

Page No:

pp. 105-9

Poem Title:

Honour.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Weep weep Lysander for the lovely maid

Page No:

pp. 109-16

Poem Title:

The Loss.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Tis all eternal spring around

Page No:

pp. 116-28

Poem Title:

The Prospect and Bower of Bliss.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn