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Subject: GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1730-1774)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POSTSCRIPT TO 'RETALIATION', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here johnson is laid. Have a care how you walk
Last Line: And still while ... [coetera desunt.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)


AT GOLDSMITH'S GRAVE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: To where he sleeps,-not near the honored dead
Last Line: Within the warm affections of mankind.
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies nolly goldsmith, for shortness called noll
Last Line: Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor poll
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)


FOR A COPY OF 'THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By goldsmith's tomb the city's cry
Last Line: By goldsmith's tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)


GOLDSMITH TO THE AUTHOR, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're in love with the muses! Well, grant it be true
Last Line: When pleased with his honours, remember his fate.
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Poetry & Poets


HOME, SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS: 5. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home! At the word, what blissful visions rise
Last Line: His pristine peace of mind's his final prayer.
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)


ON A PICTURE BY HOPPNER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And you went once with myrtle crowned!'
Last Line: By goldsmith's jasmine flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Hoppner, John (1758-1810); Paintings & Painters


ON THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain fair auburn weeps her desert plains
Last Line: Till thou desert the muse and scorn her smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Great Britain


TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH GOLDSMITH'S SELECTED POEMS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grub street is milton street today
Last Line: And call our task-work 'letters.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)


TO THE MISTAKE OF A NIGHT; OR, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the dark margin of this dusky wood
Last Line: But nip the bud of genius when you frown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)