"I must confess you're wondrous fair, / And know, to conquer such a Heart"
— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Joseph Knight, and Francis Saunders
Date
1688
Metaphor
"I must confess you're wondrous fair, / And know, to conquer such a Heart"
Metaphor in Context
I must confess you're wondrous fair,
And know, to conquer such a Heart;
Is worth an Age of sad despair,
If Lovers Merits were Desert:
But you're unjust as well as fair,
And Love subsists not with despair,
No more than Lovers by the Air.
And know, to conquer such a Heart;
Is worth an Age of sad despair,
If Lovers Merits were Desert:
But you're unjust as well as fair,
And Love subsists not with despair,
No more than Lovers by the Air.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
"Cease, Cease, That Vain and Useless Scorn," from Lycidus: or the Lover in Fashion. Being an Account from Lycidus to Lysander, Of his Voyage from the island of love. From the French. By the same author Of the Voyage to the Isle of love. Together with a miscellany of New Poems. By Several Hands (London: Printed for Joseph Knight, and Francis Saunders, 1688). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
02/09/2005
