More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
  2. But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
  3. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home.
  4. Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a mouldering f…
  5. Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see, My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags …
  6. They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
  7. Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
  8. To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad …

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