HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
Who long was a bookseller's hack;
He led such a damnable life in this world, --
I don't think he'll wish to come back.

(C) Oliver Goldsmith
03/29/2017


Best Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

• The Deserted Village
• A Sonnet
• Eiplogue
• The Double Transformation, A Tale
• On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning
• An Epigram
• The Taking Of Quebec
• Epitaph On Thomas Parnell
• Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - A Solemn Dirge
• The Haunch Of Venison
• Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury
• Edwin And Angela, A Ballad
• When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly
• Memory
• On The Death Of The Right Hounourable ---
• Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - Pastorale
• The Gift (to Iris, In Bow Street, Covent Garden)
• Epilogue For Mr. Lee Lewes