Oliver Goldsmith — English Poetry Library

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Oliver Goldsmith1728–177418th century Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. He produced literary works in a variety of genres and is regarded as one of the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His works are known for their realistic depictions of British society, and his comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of playwright William Shakespeare. Credited with introducing sentimentalism in English literature in 18th-century Great Britain, several of Goldsmith's publications are popular classics of the period, including his only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the comedy play She Stoops to Conquer (1773).

Poems

150 poems

1 Miscellaneous Prose Works of Goldsmith, vol. i., p. 79.60 lines
16 The Great Panjandrum Himself7 lines
A CHALDEAN WOMAN.4 lines
A NEW SIMILE67 lines
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE.58 lines
A SONNET.12 lines
A TALE.109 lines
About Google Book Search9 lines
ACT II.6 lines
ADVERTISEMENT68 lines
Aid slighted Truth with thy persuasive strain:6 lines
AIR.8 lines
An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog32 lines
An eminent attorney.42 lines
And e'en the story ran that he could gauge:7 lines
And every pang that folly pays to pride.6 lines
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain:6 lines
And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise.6 lines
And keep the flame from wasting by repose:11 lines
And left a lover's for her father's arms.6 lines
And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd.5 lines
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.18 lines
AUSTIN DOBSON.97 lines
Between a splendid and a happy land.4 lines
Betwetn t^e Qtu ^thi lUviTf and t tunif22 lines
Beyoad the Qmi ^' dm Rin^^ 9S'> far as ^Rat7 lines
Boast of a florid vigour not their own:36 lines
But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven.4 lines
But now the sounds of population fail:4 lines
But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train4 lines
CHALDEAN WOMAN.9 lines
CHAP, 11.55 lines
CHORUS OF ALL.5 lines
CHORUS OF CAPTIVES.4 lines
CHORUS OF ISRAELITES.8 lines
CHORUS OF PRIESTS.6 lines
CHORUS OF VIRGINS.4 lines
CHORUS OF YOUTHS.4 lines
CHORUS.6 lines
Compiled by David Widger4 lines
DALZIELS' ILLUSTRATED11 lines
Dr. Sraw'3 TftArfLi Mrvngv&BAitBART*9 lines
EDITED BY8 lines
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG32 lines
ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX4 lines
ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.4 lines
EPILOGUE43 lines
EPILOGUE FOR MR. LEE LEWES49 lines
EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.25 lines
EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL 1294 lines
EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL.25 lines
Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.10 lines
FIRST AND SECOND PRIEST.4 lines
FIRST AND SECOND PRIESTS.5 lines
FIRST PRIEST.14 lines
FIRST PRINTED IN MDCCLXXIV., AFTER THE AUTHOR'S DEATH.27 lines
FIRST PROPHET.22 lines
Footnote 10:5 lines
Footnote 16:54 lines
Footnote 19:38 lines
Footnote 3:27 lines
For talking age and whispering lovers made!12 lines
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.5 lines
Google46 lines
He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave.4 lines
Here to return--and die at home at last.11 lines
His pity gave ere charity began.14 lines
HISTORY.71 lines
I'50 lines
Imagination fondly stoops to trace13 lines
IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH.19 lines
In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.16 lines
IN BOW STREET, COVENT GARDEN.21 lines
IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT.106 lines
IN THE MANNER OF SWIFT.89 lines
ISRAELITISH WOMAN.18 lines
LAST CHORUS.4 lines
LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY.29 lines
Lord Clare's nephew.44 lines
MAN SPEAKER.47 lines
MDCCCLVII10 lines
Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.4 lines
MISS CATLEY.13 lines
More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.16 lines
Mr. MAXiMrnAuMissoN'sTyrAVZLs through17 lines
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.127 lines
ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING5 lines
ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE106 lines
Page127 lines
Palaces^ Antiquitiesy and Relics ; imtb an Ac^8 lines
PART I.142 lines
PART II.146 lines
POSTSCRIPT42 lines
PREFATORY NOTE11 lines
PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS.20 lines
Qieafis^*'*whieh'they'lbrge oat of the iixm dug16 lines
RECITATIVE.8 lines
Resumes practice as a physician.62 lines
RETALIATION146 lines
ROSCOM.9 lines
SACRED TO THE MEMORY5 lines
SECOND PRIEST.13 lines
SECOND PRIEST. RECITATIVE.6 lines
SECOND PROPHET.22 lines
SEMI-CHORUS.4 lines
SEPTEMBER 13, 1759.138 lines
SONG136 lines
SONG. BY A WOMAN.4 lines
Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired:13 lines
SUNG63 lines
Th«31 lines
That call'd them from their native walks away!6 lines
That one small head could carry all he knew.9 lines
THE CAPTIVITY.4 lines
The CON T^ N T Si12 lines
The CON TEN T S.32 lines
The day's disasters in his morning face:4 lines
THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION104 lines
The gift of5 lines
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON125 lines
THE PERSONS.9 lines
The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth4 lines
The sad historian of the pensive plain.5 lines
THE TRAVELLER.15 lines
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.9 lines
There is littlio widunihecity that merits the114 lines
These simple blessings of the lowly train:17 lines
Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power.8 lines
Tke CON TE NT S.5 lines
To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?4 lines
TO G. C. AND R. L.4 lines
TO IRIS, IN BOW STREET, CONVENT GARDEN20 lines
To open our ball the first day of the year.’98 lines
To spurn imploring famine from the gate--6 lines
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread4 lines
To sweet oblivion of his daily care:4 lines
TRANSLATION14 lines
TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE4 lines
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose:11 lines
Urge fquare bafbn of Ronum workmanihtpi ^4 lines
VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO45 lines
VOL. XVIII.8 lines
Watson’s Engraving of _Resignation_ published.68 lines
When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly8 lines
Where at each step the stranger fears to wake5 lines
Where humble happiness endear'd each scene!7 lines
Where the poor houseless shivering female lies:9 lines
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.9 lines
With ready zeal each honest rustic ran:7 lines
WOMAN SPEAKER.34 lines