When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring... The Quarterly Review - الصفحة 427المحررون: - 1834عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Victoria Hesford, Lisa Diedrich - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...poets is engraved as a memory. In a poem, Goldsmith warns a "foolish" woman that, "The only art . . . / To give repentance to her lover, / And wring his bosom is — to die."24 Alvarez writes that she almost quotes his poem to her headstrong cousin, but thinks better... | |
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