Oliver Goldsmith's Poetry, by popularity

• The Poet Laberius

  PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS
  A ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE

  25 lines
• The Taking Of Quebec

  STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF
  GENERAL WOLFE

  15 lines
• Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - Pastorale

  MAN SPEAKER.
  FAST by that shore where Thames' translucent stream

  142 lines
• Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - A Solemn Dirge

  SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS
  THE PRINCESS DOWAGER OF WALES.

  164 lines
• An Author's Bedchamber

  DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER
  

  22 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
• The Haunch Of Venison

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

  130 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
• The Captivity

  AN ORATORIO
  

  473 lines
• Prologue To 'Zobeide'

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

  43 lines
• Translation Of A South American Ode

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

  3 lines
• Epitaph On Edward Purdon

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

  3 lines
• Epilogue to 'The Sister'

  WHAT! five long acts -- and all to make us wiser!
  Our authoress sure has wanted an adviser.

  46 lines
• Translation

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

  13 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
• Eiplogue

  INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR 'SHE STOOPS
  TO CONQUER'

  44 lines
• Vida's Game Of Chess

  TRANSLATED
  ARMIES of box that sportively engage

  703 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
• Epitaph On Thomas Parnell

  THIS tomb, inscrib'd to gentle Parnell's name,
  May speak our gratitude, but not his fame.

  9 lines
• Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury

  MADAM,
  I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour could

  123 lines
• Epilogue To 'She Stoops To Conquer'

  WELL, having stoop'd to conquer with success,
  And gain'd a husband without aid from dress,

  34 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
• The Logicians Refuted

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

  59 lines
• A Sonnet

  WEEPING, murmuring, complaining,
  Lost to every gay delight;

  8 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
• Part Of A Prologue Written And Spoken By The POet Laberius A Roman Knight, Whom Caesar Forced Upon The Stage

  PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS.
  WHAT!  no way left to shun th' inglorious stage,

  21 lines
• An Epigram

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

  16 lines
• A New Simile

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

  70 lines
• Song From 'The Vicar Of Wakefield'

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

  8 lines
• The Clown's Reply

  JOHN TROTT was desired by two witty peers
  To tell them the reason why asses had ears?

  5 lines

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