Sweet were his kisses on my balmy lips
- DMI number:
- 19240
- First Line:
- Sweet were his kisses on my balmy lips
- Last Line:
- Of ripening spices on the height of day
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Aphra Behn
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Abdelazer, Act 5 (lines 517-19), with heavily revised first line. Todd (1996) V: 307.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Behn's Abd.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
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