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What does this line from the first stanza "That languish in resistless fire" mean?

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The given line has been taken from the following stanza of the poem "A thousand martyrs" by Aphra Behn

"A thousand martyrs I have made,

All sacrificed to my desire;

A thousand beauties have betrayed,

That languish in resistless fire.

The untamed heart to hand I brought,

And fixed the wild and wandering thought."

The line "That languish in resistless fire" means that the beauties still burn with longing and desire for the speaker.


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