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The Deserted Village

Oliver Goldsmith

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake....T. Creswick, R.A.....040 The cooling brookt the grassy-vested green....T. Creswick, R.A.....041 The good old sire the first prepared to go....C. W. Cope, R.A......042 Whilst her husband strove to lend relief......R. Redgrave, R.A.....043 Down where yon vessel spreads the sail........T. Creswick, R.A.....044 Or winter wraps the polar world in snow.......T. Creswick, R.A.....045 As rocks resist the billows aNd the sky.......T. Creswick, R.A.....046



Drawn on wood, from the original Etchings, by E. K. Johnson, and engraved by Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper.



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THE DESERTED VILLAGE

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Community Reviews

I do enjoy Goldsmith’s poetry, but there’s something about it that just puts me off. It might be so many rhyming couplets in one go. Not sure. One to revisit.

more like 3,5 stars. Liked the style felt very Dr. Seuss to me

Though the poem has good prose, it's incredibly sad and a little depressing as the poet waxes philosophical on things that were that are now gone.