In vain I have laboured the victor to prove
- DMI number:
- 43685
- First Line:
- In vain I have laboured the victor to prove
- Last Line:
- And now vanquished and shamed I've quitted my post
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quintain / quintet aabbb
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character
- Title:
- Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the island of love [ESTC R30218]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 61-2
- Poem Title:
- The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse; To a New Tune.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Behn's name.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
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