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The poems (1969)

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)

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 1. 
1 [Prologue of Laberius]
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2 On a Beautiful Youth Struck Blind with Lightning
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3 The Gift
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4 A Sonnet
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5 An Elegy on that Glory of her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize
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6 The Double Transformation:
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7 [The Description of an Author's Bedchamber]
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8 On Seeing Mrs **** Perform in the Character of ****
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9 On the Death of the Right Honourable ***
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10 [Translation of a South American Ode]
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11 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
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12 Song from The Vicar of Wakefield
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13 Edwin and Angelina
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14 The Captivity:
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15 The Traveller,
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16 A New Simile.
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17 Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Dr. Baker's
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18 Epitaph on Edward Purdon
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19 Epilogue to The Good Natured Man
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20 Epilogue to The Sister:
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21 The Deserted Village
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22 Epitaph
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23 The Haunch of Venison.
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24 Prologue to Zobeide
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25 [Translations in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature]
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26 Threnodia Augustalis
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27 Song from She Stoops to Conquer
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28 [Song Intended for She Stoops to Conquer]
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29 [First Rejected Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer]
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30 [Second Rejected Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer]
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31 Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer
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32 Epilogue,
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33 Letter in Verse and Prose to Mrs Bunbury
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34 Retaliation
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POEMS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY
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35 ‘Theseus did see, as poets say’
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36 [A Couplet on Aesop]
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37 The Clown's Reply
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38 The Logicians Refuted
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39 On the Taking of Quebec
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40 The Barber's Boy's Epigram
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41 [Riddle for Mary Nugent]

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35 ‘Theseus did see, as poets say’

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Theseus did see, as poets say,
Dark Hell and its abysses,
But had not half so sharp an eye
As our young charming misses.
For they could through boys' breeches peep
And view whate'er he had there.
It seemed to blush and they all laughed
Because the face was all bare.
They laughed at that which sometimes else
Might give them greatest pleasure.
How quickly they could see the thing
Which was their darling treasure.
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