An Elegy On That Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize

Oliver Goldsmith 1730 (Ballymahon) – 1774 (Brick Court, London)



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 neighbourhood to please,
With manners wond'rous winning,
And never follow'd wicked ways,
'Unless when she was sinning'.
  
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'.
  
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 liv'd a twelve-month more,
'She had not died to-day'.
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Scheme XAXA BCXC XDAD EFEF GBGB HXHX BIBI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 880
Words 164
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes. more…

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