Oliver Goldsmith

Best-known poems

• The Deserted Village

  Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
  Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain,
  Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, …

• The Wanderer’s Home

  From “The Traveller”
  REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
  Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po, …

• Elegy on Madam Blaize

  Good people all, with one accord,
  Lament for Madam Blaize;
  Who never wanted a good word— …

All poems (9)

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William Blake 1757–1827 William Cowper 1731–1800 HF Henry Fielding 1707–1754 TG Thomas Gray 1716–1771 JT James Thomson 1700–1748 CS Christopher Smart 1722–1770 SJ Samuel Johnson 1709–1784 GC George Crabbe 1754–1832