Oliver Goldsmith's Poetry, by written

• Retaliation: A Poem

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

  177 lines
• 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
• The Deserted Village

  Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
  Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,

  455 lines
• When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly

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

  8 lines
• Memory

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

  8 lines, 1 comment
• The Village Schoolmaster

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

  25 lines, 7 comments
• 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
• On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning

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

  5 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
• 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
• An Epigram

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

  16 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
• 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
• Epilogue to 'The Sister'

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

  46 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
• Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - A Solemn Dirge

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

  164 lines
• Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - Pastorale

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

  142 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
• 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
• Translation

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

  13 lines
• The Haunch Of Venison

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

  130 lines
• Epitaph On Thomas Parnell

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

  9 lines
• The Clown's Reply

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

  5 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

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