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Oliver Goldsmith
10 November 1730? – 4 April 1774
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: A New Simile | Long had I sought in vain to find | | 64 | 268 | | 2: A Sonnet | Weeping, murmuring, complaining, | | 8 | 246 | | 3: An Elegy On That Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize | Good people all, with one accord, | | 28 | 228 | | 4: An Epigram Addressed To The Gentlemen Reflected On In The Rosciad, A Poem, By The Author | Let not the 'hungry' Bavius' angry stroke | | 9 | 230 | | 5: Description Of An Author's Bedchamber | Where the Red Lion flaring o'er the way, | | 20 | 225 | | 6: Edwin And Angela - A Ballad | Turn, gentle hermit of the dale, | | 160 | 250 | | 7: Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog | Good people all, of every sort, | | 32 | 262 | | 8: Epilogue For Mr. Lee Lewes | Hold! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense; | | 49 | 248 | | 9: Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For 'She Stoops To Conquer' | Ma'am, your pardon. What's your business here? | | 108 | 271 | | 10: Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For 'She Stoops To Conquer' | There is a place, so Ariosto sings, | | 42 | 247 | | 11: Epilogue To 'She Stoops To Conquer' | Well, having stoop'd to conquer with success, | | 35 | 248 | | 12: Epilogue To 'The Good Natur'd Man' | As puffing quacks some caitiff wretch procure | | 34 | 274 | | 13: Epilogue To 'The Sister' | What! five long acts and all to make us wiser! | | 46 | 262 | | 14: Epitaph On Edward Purdon | Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, | | 4 | 249 | | 15: Epitaph On Thomas Parnell | This tomb, inscrib'd to gentle Parnell's name, | | 10 | 261 | | 16: Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury | I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour | | 80 | 257 | | 17: Of The Death Of The Right Hon. *** | Ye Muses, pour the pitying tear | | 20 | 264 | | 18: On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning | Sure 'twas by Providence design'd, | | 4 | 251 | | 19: On Seeing Mrs. ** Perform In The Character Of **** | For you, bright fair, the nine address their lays, | | 14 | 226 | | 20: Part Of A Prologue Written And Spoken By The Poet Laberius A Roman Knight, Whom Caesar Forced Upon The Stage | What! no way left to shun th' inglorious stage, | | 20 | 237 | | 21: Prologue To 'Zobeide' | In these bold times, when Learning's sons explore | | 44 | 245 | | 22: Retaliation | Of old, when Scarron his companions invited, | | 177 | 241 | | 23: Song From 'She Stoops To Conquer' | Let school-masters puzzle their brain, | | 27 | 241 | | 24: Song From 'The Vicar Of Wakefield' | When lovely woman stoops to folly, | | 8 | 272 | | 25: Song Intended To Have Been Sung In 'She Stoops To Conquer' | Ah me! when shall I marry me? | | 8 | 260 | | 26: Stanzas On The Taking Of Quebec, And Death Of General Wolfe | Amidst the clamour of exulting joys | | 12 | 228 | | 27: The Captivity An Oratorio | Ye captive tribes, that hourly work and weep | | 398 | 298 | | 28: The Clown's Reply | John Trott was desired by two witty peers | | 6 | 232 | | 29: The Deserted Village | Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, | | 430 | 228 | | 30: The Double Transformation - A Tale | Secluded from domestic strife, | | 104 | 220 | | 31: The Gift | Say, cruel IRIS, pretty rake, | | 20 | 226 | | 32: The Haunch Of Venison - A Poetical Epistle To Lord Clare | Thanks, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter | | 124 | 258 | | 33: The Logicians Refuted | Logicians have but ill defin'd | | 58 | 226 | | 34: The Traveller Or A Prospect Of Society | Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, | | 438 | 225 | | 35: Threnodia Augustalis: | Arise, ye sons of worth, arise, | | 285 | 260 | | 36: To G. C. And R. L. | Twas you, or I, or he, or all together, | | 4 | 245 | | 37: Translation | Chaste are their instincts, faithful is their fire, | | 14 | 238 | | 38: Translation Of A South American Ode | In all my Enna's beauties blest, | | 4 | 238 | | 39: Verses In Reply To An Invitation To Dinner At Dr. Baker's. | Your mandate I got, You may all go to pot; | | 45 | 272 | | 40: Vida's Game Of Chess | Armies of box that sportively engage | | 679 | 317 |
About:
Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). (He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase.)
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