Ah what can mean that eager joy
- DMI number:
- 42636
- First Line:
- Ah what can mean that eager joy
- Last Line:
- Which none before could ever subdue
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Octet ababcdcd and Song
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Aphra Behn
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Song', Todd (1992) I: 81. The poem comprises variant versions of the two stanzas of 'Song', as well as a third stanza.
- First Line:
- Ah what can mean that eager joy
- Last Line:
- Nothing so happy so beloved as we
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The compleat courtier: or, Cupid's academy [ESTC R184126]
- Page No(s):
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- The Love-sick Shepherdess: A New Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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