The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. ILLUSTRATIONS4. THE TRAVELLER5. THE DESERTED VILLAGE6. THE CAPTIVITY7. RETALIATION8. THE GIFT TO IRIS9. THE LOGICIANS REFUTED10. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG.3711. THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS12. PART I.13. PART II.14. A NEW SIMILE15. ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND BY LIGHTNING16. STANZAS ON WOMAN17. TRANSLATION FROM SCARRÒN.18. STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC19. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.4220. TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE.21. EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL.22. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR’S BED-CHAMBER.23. SONG FROM THE COMEDY OF “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”24. ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER.25. A SONG26. FROM THE LATIN OF VIDA.27. ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO PASS THE CHRISTMAS AT BARTON.4828. ON SEEING A LADY PERFORM A CERTAIN CHARACTER.29. BIRDS30. A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS, A ROMAN KNIGHT.31. PROLOGUE TO “ZOBEIDE,” A TRAGEDY.5032. EPILOGUE TO “THE SISTER,” A COMEDY.5333. EPILOGUE INTENDED FOR “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”34. ANOTHER INTENDED EPILOGUE35. EPILOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”36. EPILOGUE TO “THE GOOD-NATURED MAN.”5737. ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. ——.6038. EPILOGUE WRITTEN FOR MR. CHARLES LEE LEWES.