| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Love in fantastic triumph sate’ | | By Aphra Behn (1640–1689) |
| | | LOVE 1 in fantastic triumph sate, | |
| Whilst bleeding hearts around him flowed, | |
| For whom fresh pains he did create, | |
| And strange tyrannic power he showed; | |
| From thy bright eyes he took his fires, | 5 |
| Which round about in sport he hurled; | |
| But ’twas from mine he took desires | |
| Enough to undo the amorous world. | |
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| From me he took his sighs and tears, | |
| From thee his pride and cruelty, | 10 |
| From me his languishment and fears, | |
| And every killing dart from thee; | |
| Thus thou, and I, the god have armed, | |
| And set him up a deity, | |
| But my poor heart alone is harmed, | 15 |
| Whilst thine the victor is, and free. | |
| | | Note 1. From Abdelazer, or the Moor’s Revenge, act i, sc. 1. 1667. [back] | | |
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