Poem by Oliver Goldsmith

Song Intended to Have Been Sung in 'She Stoops to Conquer'

AH me! when shall I marry me?
Lovers are plenty; but fail to relieve me:
He, fond youth, that could carry me,
Offers to love, but means to deceive me.

But I will rally, and combat the ruiner:
Not a look, not a smile shall my passion discover:
She that gives all to the false one pursuing her,
Makes but a penitent, loses a lover. 

1. Song, from the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer”
2. Italy
3. An Author's Bedchamber
4. On the Death of the Right Hounourable
5. From the Latin of Vida

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