The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slowOr by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po,OR onward, where the rude Corinthian boorAgainst the houseless stranger ...
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slowOr by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po,OR onward, where the rude Corinthian boorAgainst the houseless stranger ...
AN ORATORIOTHE PERSONS.FIRST ISRAELITISH PROPHET.SECOND ISRAELITISH PROPHET.ISRAELITISH WOMAN.FIRST CHALDEAN PRIEST.SECOND CHALDEAN PRIEST.CHALDEAN WOMAN.CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS.SCENE - The Banks ...
Of old, when Scarron his companions invited, Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united; If our landlord supplies us ...
'Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,And guide my lonely way,To where yon taper cheers the valeWith hospitable ray.'For here, forlorn ...
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESSTHE PRINCESS DOWAGER OF WALES.AIR -- TRIO.ARISE, ye sons of worth, arise,And ...
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARETHANKS, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatterNever rang'd in a forest, or ...
MAN SPEAKER.FAST by that shore where Thames' translucent streamReflects new glories on his breast,Where, splendid as the youthful poet's dream,He ...
MADAM,I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour couldrequire, but after all find so much to object ...
Secluded from domestic strife,Jack Book-worm led a college life;A fellowship at twenty-fiveMade him the happiest man alive;He drank his glass ...
'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.Then enter' MISS CATLEY,'who stands full before her, and curtsies to ...
IN THE MANNER OF SWIFTLONG had I sought in vain to findA likeness for the scribbling kind;The modern scribbling kind, ...
IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFTLOGICIANS have but ill defin'dAs rational, the human kind;Reason, they say, belongs to man,But let them ...
HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.My pride forbids it ever should ...
WHAT! five long acts -- and all to make us wiser!Our authoress sure has wanted an adviser.Had she consulted 'me', ...
IN these bold times, when Learning's sons exploreThe distant climate and the savage shore;When wise Astronomers to India steer,And quit ...
INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR 'SHE STOOPSTO CONQUER'THERE is a place, so Ariosto sings,A treasury for lost and missing ...
'This 'is' a poem! This 'is' a copy of verses!'YOUR mandate I got,You may all go to pot;Had your senses been ...
WELL, having stoop'd to conquer with success,And gain'd a husband without aid from dress,Still, as a Bar-maid, I could wish ...
As puffing quacks some caitiff wretch procureTo swear the pill, or drop, has wrought a cure;Thus on the stage, our ...
Let school-masters puzzle their brain,With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,Gives 'genus' a better discerning.Let them brag ...
PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUSA ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGEPRESERVED BY ...
WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way,Invites each passing stranger that can pay;Where Calvert's butt, and Parsons' black champagne,Regale ...
DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBERWHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way,Invites each passing stranger that can pay;Where Calvert's butt, ...
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the wayWith blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,The village ...
SAY, cruel IRIS, pretty rake,Dear mercenary beauty,What annual offering shall I make,Expressive of my duty?My heart, a victim to thine ...
YE Muses, pour the pitying tearFor Pollio snatch'd away;O! had he liv'd another year!—'He had not died to-day'.O! were he ...
FOR you, bright fair, the nine address their lays,And tune my feeble voice to sing thy praise.The heartfelt power of ...
CHASTE are their instincts, faithful is their fire,No foreign beauty tempts to false desire;The snow-white vesture, and the glittering crown,The ...
STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OFGENERAL WOLFEAMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,Which triumph forces from the patriot ...
ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD,A POEM, BY THE AUTHOR Worried with debts and past all hopes of ...
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