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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

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samedi 04 mars 2006 [n° 1034]

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

ELEGY 1

On the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize

Good people all, with one accord,
Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word–
From those who spoke her praise.

The needy seldom pass’d her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor–
Who left a pledge behind.

She strove the neighborhood to please
With manners wondrous winning;
And never follow’d wicked ways–
Unless when she was sinning.

Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott
At church, in silks and satins new,
With hoop of monstrous size,
She never slumber’d in her pew–
But when she shut her eyes.

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Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The King himself has follow’d her–
When she has walk’d before.

But now, her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all;
The doctors found, when she was dead–
Her last disorder mortal.

Let us lament, in sorrow sore,
For Kent Street well may say,
That had she lived a twelvemonth more–
She had not died today.

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Oliver Goldsmith

POEMS BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH

AN ESSAY ON THE THEATRE; OR, A COMPARISON BETWEEN LAUGHING AND SENTIMENTAL COMEDY by : Oliver Goldsmith (1772)


  1. “An Elegy” is reprinted from A Nonsense Anthology. Ed. Carolyn Wells. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1915. [back]
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