Oliver Goldsmith image
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Born in 1730 / Died in 1774 / Ireland / English

Poems by Oliver Goldsmith

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Epitaph On Edward Purdon

... He led such a damnable life in this world, -- ...

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The Taking Of Quebec

... Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead-- ...

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Epitaph On Thomas Parnell

...   And Heaven, that lent him genius, was repaid ...

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Eiplogue

...   The Moon, says he:-- but 'I' affirm the Stage: ...

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Edwin and Angela, A Ballad

...   'For shame, fond youth, thy sorrows hush, ...

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Memory

... Thou, like the world, th' oppress'd oppressing, ...

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The Poet Laberius

... PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS ...

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Verses In Reply To An Invitation To Dinner At Dr. Baker's

... But, alas! Your good worships, how could they be wiser, ...

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The Village Schoolmaster

... While words of learned length and thund'ring sound ...

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The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society

...   Thine, freedom, thine the blessings pictured here: ...

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An Epigram

... ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD, ...

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Vida's Game Of Chess

...   And wedg'd him round with Foot, and pour'd in fresh supplies ...

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The Double Transformation, A Tale

...   Miss frown'd, and blush'd, and then was - married ...

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Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec and the Death of General Wolfe

... Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead- ...

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From 'She Stoops to Conquer' A Song

... Let them brag of their heathenish gods, &emsp ...