The Project Gutenberg Works of Oliver Goldsmith

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    Sweet Auburn! loveliest milage of the plain...T. Creswick, R.A.....007
    The never-failing brook, the busy mill........T. Creswick, R.A.....008
    The hawthorn bush, with seals in shade........C. W. Cope, R.A......009
    The matron's glance that would reprove........H. J. Townsend.......010
    The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest...F. Tayler............012
    These, far departing, seek a kinder shore.....C. Stonhouse.........014
    Amidst the swains show my book-learn'd skill..J. C. Horsley........015
    And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue..F. Tayler............016
    To spurn imploring famine from the gale.......C. W. Cope, R.A......017
    While resignation gently slopes the way.......T. Creswick, R.A.....018
    The playful children let loose from school....T. Webster, R.A......019
    All but yon widow'd solitary thing............F. Tayler............020
    The village preacher's modest mansion rose....T. Creswick, R.A.....021
    He chid their wanderings; relieved pain.......C. W. Cope, R.A......022
    Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd fields won..C. W. Cope, R.A......023
    Beside the bed where parting life was laid....R. Redgrave, R.A.....025
    And pluck'd his gown, share the man's smile...J. C. Horsley........026
    The village master taught his little school...T. Webster, R.A......027
    Full well they laugh'd with glee..............T. Webster, R.A......028
    Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd...T. Webster, R.A......028
    In arguing too the parson own'd his skill.....C. W. Cope, R.A......029
    Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head high...T. Creswick, R.A.....030
    Where village statesmen with looks profound...F. Tayler............031
    But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade....J. C. Horsley........033
    Proud swells the tide with loads of ore.......T. Creswick, R.A.....034
    If to some common's fenceless limit stray'd...C. Stonhouse.........036
    Where the poor houseless female lies..........J. C. Horsley........037
    She left her wheel and robes of brown.........J. C. Horsley........038
    The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake....T. Creswick, R.A.....040
    The cooling brookt the grassy-vested green....T. Creswick, R.A.....041
    The good old sire the first prepared to go....C. W. Cope, R.A......042
    Whilst her husband strove to lend relief......R. Redgrave, R.A.....043
    Down where yon vessel spreads the sail........T. Creswick, R.A.....044
    Or winter wraps the polar world in snow.......T. Creswick, R.A.....045
    As rocks resist the billows aNd the sky.......T. Creswick, R.A.....046

Introduction
Chronology of Goldsmith's Life and Poems

POEMS
Descriptive Poems
The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society page 3
The Deserted Village page 23
Lyrical and Miscellaneous Pieces
Prologue of Laberius page 41
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with Lightning page 42
The Gift. To Iris, in Bow Street page 43
The Logicians Refuted page 44
A Sonnet page 46
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec page 46
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize page 47
Description of an Author's Bedchamber page 48
On seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of **** page 49
On the Death of the Right Hon.*** page 50
An Epigram. Addressed to the Gentlemen reflected on in 'The Rosciad', a Poem, by the Author page 51
To G. C. and R. L. page 51
Translation of a South American Ode page 51
The Double Transformation. A Tale page 52
A New Simile, in the Manner of Swift page 56
Edwin and Angelina page 59
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog page 65
Song ('When Lovely Woman,' etc.) page 67
Epilogue to The Good Natur'd Man page 68
Epilogue to The Sister page 70
Prologue to Zobeide page 72
Threnodia Augustalis: Sacred to the Memory of Her Late Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales page 74
Song ('Let school-masters,' etc.) page 84
Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer page 85
Retaliation page 87
Song ('Ah, me! when shall I marry me?') page 94
Translation ('Chaste are their instincts') page 94

The Haunch of Venison page 95
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell page 100
The Clown's Reply page 100
Epitaph on Edward Purdon page 100
Epilogue for Lee Lewes page 101
Epilogue written for She Stoops to Conquer (1) page 103
Epilogue written for She Stoops to Conquer (2) page 108
The Captivity. An Oratorio
Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner page 128
Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury page 130
Vida's Game of Chess page 135

NOTES
Introduction to the Notes page 159
Editions of the Poems page 161
The Traveller page 162
The Deserted Village page 177
Prologue of Laberius page 190
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with Lightning page 192
The Gift page 193
The Logicians Refuted page 194
A Sonnet page 196
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec page 196
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize page 197
Description of an Author's Bedchamber page 199
On seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of **** page 202
On the Death of the Right Hon. *** page 202
An Epigram page 203
To G. C. and R. L. page 203
Translation of a South American Ode page 203
The Double Transformation page 203
A New Simile page 205
Edwin and Angelina page 206
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog page 212
Song (from The Vicar of Wakefield) page 213
Epilogue (The Good Natur'd Man) page 214
Epilogue (The Sister) page 215
Prologue (Zobeide) page 216
Threnodia Augustalis page 218
Song (from She Stoops to Conquer) page 219

Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) page 220
Retaliation page 222
Song intended for She Stoops to Conquer page 235
Translation page 236
The Haunch of Venison page 236
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell page 243
The Clown's Reply page 244
Epitaph on Edward Purdon page 244
Epilogue for Lee Lewes's Benefit page 245
Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (1) page 246
Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (2) page 248
The Captivity page 249
Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner page 250
Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury page 252
Vida's Game of Chess page 255

APPENDIXES
Portraits of Goldsmith page 259
Descriptions of Newell's Views of Lissoy, etc. page 262
The Epithet 'Sentimental' page 264
Fragments of Translations, etc., by Goldsmith page 266
Goldsmith on Poetry under Anne and George the First page 268
Criticisms from Goldsmith's Beauties of English Poesy page 270

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
OLIVER GOLDSMITH. From Joseph Marchi's mezzotint of 1770 after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
PANE OF GLASS with Goldsmith's autograph signature, dated March, 1746, now at Trinity College, Dublin.
VIGNETTE TO THE TRAVELLER. Drawn by Samuel Wale, and engraved by Charles Grignion.
HEADPIECE TO THE TRAVELLER. Engraved on wood by Charlton Nesbit for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795.
THE TRAVELLER. From a design by Richard Westall, R. A., engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795.
VIGNETTE TO THE DESERTED VILLAGE, 1770. Drawn and engraved by Isaac Taylor.
HEADPIECE TO THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Engraved on wood by Charlton Nesbit for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795.
THE WATER-CRESS GATHERER. Drawn and engraved on wood by John Bewick for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795. {This picture is unavailable.]
THE DEPARTURE. Drawn by Robert Johnson, and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795.
EDWIN AND ANGELINA. From an original washed drawing made by Thomas Stothard, R.A., for Aikin's Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 1805.
PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. From an etching by James Basire on the title-page of Retaliation, 1774.
SONG FROM THE CAPTIVITY. Facsimile of Goldsmith's writing and signature, from Prior's Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., 1837, ii, frontispiece.
GREEN ARBOUR COURT, OLD BAILEY. From an engraving in the European Magazine for January, 1803.

KILKENNY WEST CHURCH. From an aquatint by S. Alken of a sketch by R. H. Newell (Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 1811).
HAWTHORN TREE. From the same.
SOUTH VIEW FROM GOLDSMITH'S MOUNT. From the same . . . To face p. 183. [This picture is unavailable.]
THE SCHOOL HOUSE. From the same.
PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH. Drawn by Henry William Bunbury and etched by James Bretherton. From the Haunch of Venison, 1776.
PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH. From a silhouette by Ozias Humphry, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery.
LISSOY (OR LISHOY) MILL. From an aquatint by S. Alken of a sketch by R. H. Newell (Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 1811).
THE PARSONAGE. From the same.

MILL AT LISSOY (Frontispiece).
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GOLDSMITH'S TOMB IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHYARD	xvii
THE TRAVELLER.
Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies	5
Bless'd that abode, where want and pain repair	6
Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend	7
Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale	8
The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone	9
Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave	10
While oft some temple's mouldering tops between	12
In florid beauty groves and fields appear	13
A mistress or a saint in every grove	14
Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread	16
With patient angle trolls the finny deep	17
How often have I led thy sportive choir	18
The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail	21
There gentle music melts on every spray	24
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around	27
THE DESERTED VILLAGE.
The never-failing brook, the busy mill	32
The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm	33
And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground	34
The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest	35
Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew	37
The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung	38
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made	39
To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn	40
The village preacher's modest mansion rose	41
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride	42
At church, with meek and unaffected grace	43
Low lies that house, where nut-brown draughts inspir'd	45
No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale	45
Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds	48
Where the poor houseless, shivering female lies	50
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn	51
Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey	52
The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green	53
And left a lover's for a father's arms	54
Downward they move, a melancholy band	56
THE HERMIT.
Then turn, to-night, and freely share whate'er my cell bestows	58
The hermit trimm'd his little fire, and cheer'd his pensive guest	61
And when, beside me in the dale; he caroll'd lays of love	64
THE CAPTIVITY.
Ye hills of Lebanon, with cedars crown'd	69
Fierce is the tempest rolling along the furrow'd main	74
As panting flies the hunted hind, where brooks refreshing stray	80
O Babylon! how art thou fall'n	83
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON	90
THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION	102
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG	109
THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS	116
ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND BY LIGHTNING	125
SONG—"THE THREE PIGEONS"	130
BIRDS	142
EPILOGUE WRITTEN FOR MR. CHARLES LEE LEWES	162

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THE DESERTED VILLAGE

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