Her mourning languid eyes are rarely shown
- DMI number:
- 40493
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Her mourning languid eyes are rarely shown
- Last Line:
- In all the harmony her soul can entertain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Lament
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy and Love
- Author:
- Aphra Behn
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Part of 'A Voyage to the Isle of Love'. Todd (1992) I: 137, lines 1362-88. Todd's text has 'Is' for 'In' in the last line.
- Translated from:
- Paul Tallemant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Her mourning languid eyes are rarely shown
- Last Line:
- And to the winds breathe my neglected tale
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of original love letters, to which are sub-join'd poems by eminent ladies [T82903]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- Absence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Behn. A Voyage to the Isle of Love.
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