('Imitated from the Spanish'.)

SURE 'twas by Providence design'd,
Rather in pity, than in hate,
That he should be, like Cupid, blind,
To save him from Narcissus' fate.

(C) Oliver Goldsmith
03/10/2017


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