The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

by Oliver Goldsmith

[1] Miscellaneous Prose Works of Goldsmith, vol. i., p. 79.

[2] “The year of Dr. Goldsmith’s birth had been universally mistaken, till his family, some time after his death, furnished correct information of the circumstance.”—Percy.

HERE LIES OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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CONTENTS

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The Traveller	[1]
The Deserted Village	[29]
The Hermit	[57]
The Captivity	[67]
The Haunch of Venison	[85]
Retaliation	[91]
The Double Transformation	[99]
The Gift to Iris	[104]
The Logicians Refuted	[105]
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog	[108]
Threnodia Augustalis	[110]
A New Simile	[122]
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind by Lightning	[125]
Stanzas on Woman	[126]
Translation from Scarròn	[126]
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec	[127]
Epitaph on Edward Purdon	[128]
Translation of a South American Ode	[128]
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell	[129]
Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber	[130]
Song, from the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer”	[131]
Answer to an Invitation to Dinner.	[133]
Song, intended to have been sung in “She Stoops to Conquer”	[135]
From the Latin of Vida	[135]
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize	[136]
Answer to an Invitation to pass the Christmas at Barton	[138]
On Seeing a Lady Perform a Certain Character	[141]
Birds	[142]
Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius	[143]
Prologue to “Zobeide”	[144]
Epilogue to “The Sister”	[146]
Epilogue intended for “She Stoops to Conquer”	[148]
Another Intended Epilogue	[153]
Epilogue to “She Stoops to Conquer”	[155]
Epilogue to “The Good-natured Man”	[157]
On the Death of the Right Hon. ——	[159]
Epilogue Written for Mr. Charles Lee Lewes	[163]