Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Here you will find the Poem Impromptu, to a Young Lady Singing of poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Impromptu, to a Young Lady Singing

Sing, gentle maid -- reform my breast, 
And soften all my care; 
Thus may I be some moments blest, 
And easy in despair. 
The pow'r of Orpheus lives in you; 
You can the passions of my soul subdue, 
And tame the lions and the tigers there.