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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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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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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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33 Letter in Verse and Prose to Mrs Bunbury

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POEMS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY

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18 Epitaph on Edward Purdon

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Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
Who long was a bookseller's hack;
He led such a damnable life in this world,—
I don't think he'll wish to come back.