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SONG.
1 HAPPY! happy! happy Woman!
2 Thou art nature's darling care;
3 She only gave his strength to man,
4 To be the guardian of the fair.
5 As in the Anana we can trace
6 Each delicious fruit combin'd,
7 And in the diamond's varied blaze,
8 The hue of every gem we find.
9 So nature's charms collected are
10 In sweet woman's lovely frame,
11 Whate'er is charming, fine, or rare,
12 In woman can be seen the same.
13 Mistaking man, himself may check,
14 He happy woman still approves;
[Page 172]15 Whene'er it pleases her to speak,
16 'Tis sweet to him, as vocal groves.
17 Man may be doom'd to wander far,
18 Happy woman needs not roam;
19 The fruits of peace, and spoils of war,
20 He brings to her, delighted, home.
21 Study nor labour man withstands;
22 Neither can fair woman need,
23 She must not tire her lily hands,
24 Or dim her shining eyes to read.
25 That women food and raiment share,
26 Man his vigour spends and prime;
27 Whilst she thinks what to eat and wear,
28 And how to spend her happy time.
29 She must not soil her dainty foot,
30 While man the bitter storm must know;
31 He bears her cheerfully about,
32 Where'er it is her mind to go.
33 A rout, a play, a masquerade,
34 Is happy woman's pleasant sphere;
35 Man ever racks his careful head,
36 For something new her heart to cheer.
37 Man's stubborn heart grief deeply shares,
38 If bitter moisture fills his eye;
39 If nature gave to woman tears,
40 She only meant them tears of joy.
41 That age decays is nature's doom:
42 But art can mysteries unfold;
43 Olympian dew, Circassian bloom;
44 And happy woman ne'er is old.
45 Since woman is so blest on earth,
46 Be man alone the prey of death;
47 Some antidote let art bring forth,
48 And woman keep her fragrant breath.
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [171]-173. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Eliza Day
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- AT THE SAME PLACE. ()
- ATTENDANCE UPON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. ()
- THE BIRTH OF GENIUS. ()
- THE BIRTH-DAY ORNAMENTS. ()
- CHLOE. ()
- AN EVENING HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- EVENING HYMN. ()
- EXTEMPORE LINES, To a Young Lady with an Anemone. ()
- THE FAMILY OF ADVERSITY. ()
- FOR EASTER SUNDAY. ()
- FOR SUNDAY. ()
- THE GOODNESS OF GOD. ()
- HIS IMMENSITY. ()
- A HYMN FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY EVENING. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY. ()
- A HYMN IN SICKNESS. ()
- HYMN Sung at a Charity Sermon, in Lancaster, on the 22d of January, 1797, for the Blind Asylum, Liverpool. ()
- LANCASTER CASTLE, BY MOONLIGHT. ()
- THE LAUREL. ()
- LEGEND. ()
- LINES Occasioned by my putting a Bee out of my Window one cold Morning in February, at the request of a Child. ()
- MERCY. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y. ()
- [THE MYRTLE] Upon a lady losing a sprig of Myrtle, presented to her by her husband, on the morning of their marriage. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL, Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. MIRIAM GILLISON. ()
- ODE TO HEALTH. ()
- ODE TO HOPE. ()
- OMNISCIENCE. ()
- ON FINDING A STRAYED CHILD. ()
- ON FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THREE YOUNG LADIES. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE GILLISON. ()
- ON THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD. ()
- POWER AND PROVIDENCE. ()
- THE QUESTION. ()
- RESIGNATION. ()
- SOLILOQUY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONNET TO CELIA. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
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- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- A SUNDAY EVENING's HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- THOUGHTS BEFORE THE INTERMENT OF A FRIEND. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE YOUTH, WHILE HIS FRIENDS WERE MET TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH-DAY. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCURRING IN THE THEATRE, ON SEEING MRS. SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF BELVIDERA. ()
- THE THREE LAMPS; OR, THE HERMIT OF THE WOOD. ()
- TO A SICK FRIEND. ()
- TO AMANDA, On her recovery from sickness. ()
- TO ANNA. ()
- TO BELINDA. ()
- TO DELIA. ()
- TO ELIZA S — —. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LADY, Whom the Author much esteemed when very young. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. C — — R — —. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO — — — ()
- TO — — —. ()
- UPON FINDING THE INSCRIPTION ON MY MOTHER'S MONUMENT DEFACED. ()
- WILLIAM AND ELLEN. ()
- WISDOM. ()
- WIT AND JUDGMENT. ()
- WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET ()