Ah what can mean that eager joy
- DMI number:
- 4478
- First Line:
- Ah what can mean that eager joy
- Last Line:
- Nothing so happy so beloved as we
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Octet ababcdcd and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Aphra Behn
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- The first and third stanzas (spoken by Phillis) are revised versions of the two stanzas that make up Behn's 'Song' (with the same first line): Todd (1992) I: 81. Strephon's stanzas, the chorus and the dialogue form are original.
- First Line:
- Ah what can mean that eager joy
- Last Line:
- Which none before could ever subdue
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Deliciae Poeticae; or Parnassus display'd in a choice collection of poems and songs [T93810]
- Page No(s):
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between Phillis and Strephon
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Mirth diverts all care [T119714]
- Page No(s):
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between Phillis and Strephon
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Mirth diverts all care [T182529]
- Page No(s):
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between Phillis and Strephon
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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