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Subject: BEHN, APHRA (1640-1689)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PINDARICK TO MRS. BEHN ON HER POEM ON THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hail, thou sole empress of the land of wit"
Last Line: Since the first mother of mankind rebell'd
Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);james Ii, King Of England (1633-1701);life;poetry & Poets;women;


AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)"
Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne
Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise;


TO MADAM BHEN, by JOAN PHILIPS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam! Permit a muse, that has been long
Last Line: Her want of skill, than want of zeal to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia
Subject(s): Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TO MRS. B. FROM A LADY WHO HAD A DESIRE TO SEE HER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Send me your pity bounteous shepherdess
Last Line: But yet at your command shall always be
Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);grief;shepherds & Shepherdesses;treason & Traitors;" Sorrow;sadness