...poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage...fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,' And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,...

...poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her modest looks the cottage...fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head/ And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,...

...poor, houseless, shivering female lies ! She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her modest looks the cottage...virtue fled Near her betrayer's door she lays her head ; And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the show'r, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour...

...poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage...virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,2 And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless...

...a proud rich man is sentimental melodrama at its grossest: Her modest looks the cottage might adom, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now...fled— Near her betrayer's door she lays her head And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,...

...poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her modest looks the cottage...fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,...

...poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest. Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her modest looks the cottage...fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, 210 And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour...

...poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her modest looks the cottage...virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head.16 As Goldsmith no doubt was aware, London in 1770 was full of Irish country girls in this position;...

...poor Houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her modest looks the cottage...friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lies her head, And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that...

...Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, line 330: the lines describe a once-virtuous cottage girl, whose "modest looks the cottage might adorn, / Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn," who is now a homeless, betrayed prostitute in the city. 227. The most popular work of the poet William...