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The poems (1969)

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)

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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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ACT I
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Scene I
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ACT II
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ACT III
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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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[Part I]
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PART II
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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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39 On the Taking of Quebec

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Amidst the clamour of exulting joys,
Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,
Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice,
And quells the raptures which from pleasures start.
O Wolfe, to thee a streaming flood of woe
Sighing we pay, and think even conquest dear;
Quebec in vain shall teach our breast to glow,
Whilst thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear.
Alive, the foe thy dreadful vigour fled,
And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes;
Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead!
Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise.
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