Oliver Goldsmith's Poetry, by title

• A New Simile

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

  70 lines
• A Sonnet

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

  8 lines
• An Author's Bedchamber

  DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER
  

  22 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
• An Epigram

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

  16 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
• Edwin and Angela, A Ballad

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

  160 lines
• Eiplogue

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

  44 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
• Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For 'She Stoops To Conquer'

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

  133 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
• Epilogue to 'The Sister'

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

  46 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
• Epitaph On Edward Purdon

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

  3 lines
• Epitaph On Thomas Parnell

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

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

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

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

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

  123 lines
• Memory

  O MEMORY, thou fond deceiver,
    Still importunate and vain,

  8 lines, 1 comment
• On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning

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

  5 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
• On the Death of the Right Hounourable ---

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

  20 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
• Prologue To 'Zobeide'

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

  43 lines
• Retaliation: A Poem

  Of old, when Scarron his companions invited,
      Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united;

  177 lines
• Song From 'The Vicar Of Wakefield'

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

  8 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
• 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
• The Captivity

  AN ORATORIO
  

  473 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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