Oliver Goldsmith's Poetry, by first line

• The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society

  Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow
  Or by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po,

  436 lines
• An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog

  Good people all, of every sort,
  Give ear unto my song;

  32 lines
• An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize

  Good people all, with one accord
  Lament for Madam Blaize,

  28 lines
• When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly

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

  8 lines
• The Gift (To Iris, In Bow Street, Covent Garden)

  SAY, cruel IRIS, pretty rake,
  Dear mercenary beauty,

  21 lines
• Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec and the Death of General Wolfe

  AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,
  Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,

  13 lines
• Description of an Author's Bedchamber

  WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way,
  Invites each passing stranger that can pay;

  21 lines
• On the Death of the Right Hounourable ---

  YE Muses, pour the pitying tear
  For Pollio snatch'd away;

  20 lines
• The Double Transformation, A Tale

  Secluded from domestic strife,

  104 lines
• Edwin and Angela, A Ballad

  'Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,
  And guide my lonely way,

  160 lines
• Epilogue to the 'Good Natur'd Man'

  As puffing quacks some caitiff wretch procure
  To swear the pill, or drop, has wrought a cure;

  34 lines
• From 'She Stoops to Conquer' A Song

  Let school-masters puzzle their brain,
  With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;

  28 lines
• Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For 'She Stoops To Conquer'

  'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,
  'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.

  133 lines
• Verses In Reply To An Invitation To Dinner At Dr. Baker's

  'This 'is' a poem!  This 'is' a copy of verses!'
  YOUR mandate I got,

  45 lines
• To G. C. And R. L.

  'TWAS you, or I, or he, or all together,
  'Twas one, both, three of them, they know not whether;

  3 lines
• On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning

  ('Imitated from the Spanish'.)
  SURE 'twas by Providence design'd,

  5 lines
• The Haunch Of Venison

  A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE
  THANKS, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter

  130 lines
• An Epigram

  ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD,
  A POEM, BY THE AUTHOR

  16 lines
• Song Intended To Have Been Sung In 'She Stoops To Conquer'

  AH me!  when shall I marry me?
  Lovers are plenty; but fail to relieve me:

  8 lines
• The Captivity

  AN ORATORIO
  

  473 lines
• The Village Schoolmaster

  Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way
  With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,

  25 lines, 7 comments
• Translation

  CHASTE are their instincts, faithful is their fire,
  No foreign beauty tempts to false desire;

  13 lines
• An Author's Bedchamber

  DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER
  

  22 lines
• On Seeing Mrs. ** Perform In The Character Of ****

  FOR you, bright fair, the nine address their lays,
  And tune my feeble voice to sing thy praise.

  13 lines
• Epitaph On Edward Purdon

  HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
  Who long was a bookseller's hack;

  3 lines
• Epilogue For Mr. Lee Lewes

  HOLD!  Prompter, hold!  a word before your nonsense;
  I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.

  48 lines
• Translation Of A South American Ode

  IN all my Enna's beauties blest,
  Amidst profusion still I pine;

  3 lines
• The Logicians Refuted

  IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT
  LOGICIANS have but ill defin'd

  59 lines
• A New Simile

  IN THE MANNER OF SWIFT
  LONG had I sought in vain to find

  70 lines
• Prologue To 'Zobeide'

  IN these bold times, when Learning's sons explore
  The distant climate and the savage shore;

  43 lines

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