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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: goldsmith, oliver Matches Found: 58 Goldsmith, Adolph Oliver 1 poems available by this author THE WAY BETWEEN Poem Text First Line: From green to green is an endless way Last Line: To break the brown bitterness. Goldsmith, Oliver Poet's Biography 56 poems available by this author AH NO. TO DISTANT CLIMES, A DREARY SCENE AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE Poem Text First Line: Good people all, with one accord Last Line: She had not died to-day. Variant Title(s): Mrs. Mary Blaize;elegy On Madam Blaize AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG Poem Text First Line: Good people all, of every sort Last Line: The dog it was that died! Variant Title(s): On The Death Of A Mad Dog Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs AND AS A BIRD EACH FOND ENDEARMENT TRIES AND WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP BUT A NAME Subject(s): Friendship BEAU TIBBS, HIS CHARACTER AND FAMILY First Line: I am apt to fancy I have contracted a new acquaintance CAPTIVITY First Line: Fatigued with life, yet loth CAPTIVITY First Line: Ye captive tribes, that hourly work and weep CLOWN'S REPLY First Line: John trot was desired by two witty peers DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER First Line: Where the red lion flaring o'er the way Last Line: A cap by night - a stocking all the day Variant Title(s): His Bedchambe EPIGRAM ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN First Line: Let not the hungry bavius' angry stroke EPILOGUE FOR MR. LEE LEWES First Line: Hold! Prompter, hold! A word before your nonsense EPILOGUE INTENDED TO BE SPOKEN FOR SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (1) First Line: There is a place, so ariosto sings EPILOGUE INTENDED TO BE SPOKEN FOR SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (2) First Line: Hold, ma'am your pardon. What's your business here? EPILOGUE TO SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER First Line: Well, having stoop'd to conquer with success EPILOGUE TO THE GOOD NATURED MAN First Line: As puffing quacks some caitiff wretch procure EPILOGUE TO THE SISTER First Line: What! Five long acts-and all to make us wiser EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON First Line: Here lies poor ned purdon, from misery freed EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL First Line: This tomb, inscrib'd to gentle parnell's name Subject(s): Poetry And Poets EXILES First Line: Where, then, ah! Where shall poverty FRANCE First Line: To kinder skies, where gentle manners reign Variant Title(s): Character Of The Frenc GIFT First Line: Say, cruel iris, pretty rake GOOD MAN SUFFERS BUT TO GAIN GREAT BRITAIN GREAT MAN First Line: Ye muses, pour the pitying tear HAPPINESS DEPENDENT ON OURSELVES First Line: Vain, very vain, my weary search to find HOPE First Line: Hope, like a gleaming taper's light Subject(s): Religion LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY First Line: First let me suppose, what may shortly be true LOGICIANS REFUTED First Line: Logicians have but ill defined NEW SIMILE First Line: Long had I sought in vain to find ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING First Line: Sure 'twas by providence design'd ON SEEING MRS. - PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF - - First Line: For you, bright fair, the nine address their lays PARSON GRAY Poem Text First Line: A quiet home had parson gray Last Line: His breath he could not draw! Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS First Line: What! No way left to shun th' inglorious stage PITYING HEART First Line: No flocks that roam [or range] the valley free Variant Title(s): Man Wants But Littl PROLOGUE TO ZOBEIDE First Line: In these bold times, when learning's sons explore RETALIATION Poem Text First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, SELS. First Line: What a tedious, uncomfortable day have we had SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER: SONG Poem Text First Line: Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain Last Line: Toroddle, toroddle, toroll. Variant Title(s): She Stoops To Conquer: The Three Pigeons Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine SONG [INTENDED TO BE SUNG IN SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER] First Line: Ah, me! When shall I marry me? SONNET First Line: Weeping, murmuring, complaining Last Line: Had myra followed my direction, %she long had wanted cause of fear STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC First Line: Amist the clamour of exulting joys THE ALPS Poem Text First Line: E'en now, where alpine solitudes ascend Last Line: Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE DESERTED VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION Poem Text First Line: Secluded from domestic strife Last Line: Jack finds his wife a perfect beauty. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON Poem Text First Line: Thanks, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Last Line: You may make a mistake, and think slightly of this. Subject(s): Deer; Food & Eating THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: Tis lasting beauty to be wise! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Summer; Youth THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD: SONG Poem Text First Line: When lovely woman stoops to folly Last Line: And wring his bosom is -- to die. Variant Title(s): On Woman;woman;stanzas On Woman Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS First Line: Arise, ye sons of worth, arise TO G.C. AND R.L First Line: Twas you, or I, or he, or all together TRANSLATION First Line: Chaste are their instincts, faithful is their fire TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE First Line: In all my enna's beauties blest Last Line: Its panting tenant is not mine TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY First Line: Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow Last Line: To men remote from power but rarely known, %leave reason, faith, and conscience all their own Variant Title(s): Hollan Subject(s): Courage; Travel VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER AT DR. BAKER'S First Line: Your mandate I got VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, SELS. VIDA'S GAME OF CHESS First Line: Armies of box that sportively engage Goldsmith The Younger, Oliver Poet's Biography 1 poems available by this author THE LONELY SETTLER, FR. THE RISING VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: What noble courage must their hearts have fired Last Line: And torn from those who had no power to save. Subject(s): Pioneers |
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