FAILURE IN LOVE--after Goldsmith

FAILURE IN LOVE


When love does a young suitor spike
And he finds that women betray,
He feels the fullness of their love
Is like his purse, empty one day.

When he realizes this, then
What thought can hold his tears from fall?
It’s that “Better to fail in love
Than never to have loved at all”.


• Writen in abcb, 8-8-8-8 format.


M C Gupta
10 August 2003



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WOMAN

[By Oliver Goldsmith, 1728–1774 ]


WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
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.

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