ON A LADY's Singing. Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T139692 K110146.000 Lennox, Charlotte, ca. 1729-1804. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a Young Lady. London printed for, and sold by S. Paterson 1747 pp. 30-31. [8],88p.; 8⁰.

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ON A LADY's Singing . HOW was I charm'd , when fair Harmonia sung ! What heavenly Sweetness dwelt upon her Tongue ! What melting Joys did her soft Song impart ! Oh Pow'r of Musick , on a tender Heart ! While she repeats the Lover's ardent Pains , My sympathising Soul with her complains : Soft flow the Tears ; the gentle Sorrows rise , And my full Bosom heaves with strug'ling Sighs : But when a faithful , generous Pair's her Theme ; When in soft Sounds she sings their mutual Flame , 'Tis then I feel the Lover's soft Excess ; Share in their Joy , and triumph in their Bliss ; Wish I may thus to Tenderness be moved , And love like them , like them to be belov'd : Oh say , bright Virgin , by what powerful Art Thy Song gives real Raptures to the Heart , And makes the struggling Soul alternate prove The Joys of true , and Pangs of perjur'd Love : A Voice less fine than yours the Bard possest , Whose magick Sweetness moving Trees confest . On Mortals ! thy superior Skill is shown , And Hearts subdu'd thy greater Power own .