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Poem by Oliver Goldsmith


Memory


O MEMORY, thou fond deceiver,
Still importunate and vain,
To former joys recurring ever,
And turning all the past to pain:

Thou, like the world, th' oppress'd oppressing,
Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe:
And he who wants each other blessing
In thee must ever find a foe. 



Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith's other poems:
  1. Italy
  2. The Logicians Refuted
  3. Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec
  4. From the Latin of Vida
  5. The Clown's Reply


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • William Browne Memory ("SO shuts the marigold her leaves")
  • Christina Rossetti Memory ("I nursed it in my bosom while it lived")
  • John Tabb Memory ("I go not to the grave to weep")
  • Jones Very Memory ("Soon the waves so lightly bounding")
  • Edgar Guest Memory ("I stood and watched him playing")
  • George Horton Memory ("Sweet memory, like a pleasing dream")
  • Thomas Aldrich Memory ("My mind lets go a thousand things")
  • Charles Lamb Memory ("For gold could Memory be bought")
  • Anne Lynch Botta Memory ("Maiden of the lofty brow")
  • Theodore Roethke Memory ("IN THE slow world of dream")

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