2 "The year of Dr. Goldsmith's birth had been universally mistaken, till his family, some time after his death, furnished correct information of the circumstance."—Percy. CONTENTS PAGE The Traveller 1 The Deserted Village 29 The Hermit 57 The Captivity 67 The Haunch of Venison 85 Retaliation 91 The Double Transformation 99 The Gift to Iris 104 The Logicians Refuted 105 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog 108 Threnodia Augustalis 110 A New Simile 122 On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind by Lightning 125 Stanzas on Woman 126 Translation from Scarròn 126 Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec 127 Epitaph on Edward Purdon 128xix Translation of a South American Ode 128 Epitaph on Thomas Parnell 129 Description of an Author's Bed-chamber 130 Song, from the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer" 131 Answer to an Invitation to Dinner. 133 Song, intended to have been sung in "She Stoops to Conquer" 135 From the Latin of Vida 135 An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize 136 Answer to an Invitation to pass the Christmas at Barton 138 On Seeing a Lady Perform a Certain Character 141 Birds 142 Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius 143 Prologue to "Zobeide" 144 Epilogue to "The Sister" 146 Epilogue intended for "She Stoops to Conquer" 148 Another Intended Epilogue 153 Epilogue to "She Stoops to Conquer" 155 Epilogue to "The Good-natured Man" 157 On the Death of the Right Hon. —— 159 Epilogue Written for Mr. Charles Lee Lewes 163 xx ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED BY EDMUND EVANS, FROM DRAWINGS BY BIRKET FOSTER. MILL AT LISSOY (Frontispiece). PAGE GOLDSMITH'S TOMB IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHYARD xvii THE TRAVELLER. Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies 5 Bless'd that abode, where want and pain repair 6 Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend 7 Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale 8 The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone 9 Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave 10 While oft some temple's mouldering tops between 12 In florid beauty groves and fields appear 13 A mistress or a saint in every grove 14xxi Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread 16 With patient angle trolls the finny deep 17 How often have I led thy sportive choir 18 The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail 21 There gentle music melts on every spray 24 Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around 27 THE DESERTED VILLAGE. The never-failing brook, the busy mill 32 The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm 33 And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground 34 The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest 35 Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew 37 The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung 38 And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made 39 To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn 40 The village preacher's modest mansion rose 41 Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride 42 At church, with meek and unaffected grace 43 Low lies that house, where nut-brown draughts inspir'd 45 No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale 45 Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds 48 Where the poor