Heres a virtual movie of the great writer, poet, and physician Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774 reading his "When lovely woman stoops to folly"short lovely bittersweet little poem.
I wasnt able to find a suitable portrait for the purposes of making this virtual movie,so I have
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have used the visual services of the late 19th century American stage actor Stuart Robson (1836 - 1903) who portrayed Oiver Goldsmith on stage in 1899 and actualy managed to look qiute a bit like Goldsmith.
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 or 1728 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). (He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase.)
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Jim Clark
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When lovely woman stoops to folly.......................
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray, -
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is - to die.
Author: poetryanimations
Keywords: poem animation oliver goldmith yeats joyce irish poetry column donne keats thomas wyatt dowson poeme poesie
Added: February 20, 2009
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