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The poems (1969)
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)
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1.
1 [Prologue of Laberius]
2.
2 On a Beautiful Youth Struck Blind with Lightning
3.
3 The Gift
4.
4 A Sonnet
5.
5 An Elegy on that Glory of her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize
6.
6 The Double Transformation:
7.
7 [The Description of an Author's Bedchamber]
8.
8 On Seeing Mrs **** Perform in the Character of ****
9.
9 On the Death of the Right Honourable ***
10.
10 [Translation of a South American Ode]
11.
11 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
12.
12 Song from The Vicar of Wakefield
13.
13 Edwin and Angelina
14.
14 The Captivity:
15.
15 The Traveller,
16.
16 A New Simile.
17.
17 Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Dr. Baker's
18.
18 Epitaph on Edward Purdon
19.
19 Epilogue to The Good Natured Man
20.
20 Epilogue to The Sister:
21.
21 The Deserted Village
22.
22 Epitaph
23.
23 The Haunch of Venison.
24.
24 Prologue to Zobeide
25.
25 [Translations in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature]
26.
26 Threnodia Augustalis
27.
27 Song from She Stoops to Conquer
28.
28 [Song Intended for She Stoops to Conquer]
29.
29 [First Rejected Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer]
30.
30 [Second Rejected Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer]
31.
31 Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer
32.
32 Epilogue,
33.
33 Letter in Verse and Prose to Mrs Bunbury
34.
34 Retaliation
POEMS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY
35.
35 ‘Theseus did see, as poets say’
36.
36 [A Couplet on Aesop]
37.
37 The Clown's Reply
38.
38 The Logicians Refuted
39.
39 On the Taking of Quebec
40.
40 The Barber's Boy's Epigram
41.
41 [Riddle for Mary Nugent]
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40 The Barber's Boy's Epigram
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.
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Laborious ------, why all this spleen?
With satire why so free?
He who can't rise to mighty Quin
May dwindle down to
thee
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The poems (1969)
