...horns and motors, which shall bring / Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring."8 Oliver Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? becomes When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair...

...were produced between 1730 and 1746. WHEN LOVELY WOMAN. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, born 1731, died 1774. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...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,...

...she returns to the honeysuckle bank where first she met her lover, and sings a melancholy air: When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can was her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her...

...moment I accepted him as my friend and protector, but, to use the words of a departed poet — 'When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What can sooth [e] her melancholy, What can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide...

...And finds too late that men hetray, What 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. and Eliot's witty deflation...

...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...