...melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom is — to die. — Goldsmith, Songs "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" That poignant question...

...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 his bosom — is to die.' Scarce had the Vicar of Wakefield made its appearance and been received with acclamation, than its...

...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 his bosom — is to die. From THE DESERTED VILLAGE Sweet Aubum, loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty cheered...

...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 his bosom — is to die. Glasgow's new woman neither defines her situation as comparable to the lovely woman's nor values Goldsmith's...

...delineated quite accurately in "The Vicar of Wakefield": The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her same from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom is — to die. The modern spinster does not consider death necessary in these circumstances. If she has had a good...

...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 his bosom - is to die.' /. 257: Eliot refers us to The Tempest i, ii, the words of Ferdinand remembering the music that calmed...

...charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom is — to die. become the rueful travesty of TS Eliot: When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room...

...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 his bosom - is to die. Blank verse Blank verse consists of lines in iambic pentameter which do not rhyme. These are very common...

...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 his bosom, is— to die.17 Do we feel that a defiled child is of no use to us and might as well be dead? We seem stuck...

...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 his bosom, is — to die. Naturally, not the man, but the woman had to die. The double standard of sexual morality is immemorially...