Living
Translation of a South American Ode
From The Complete Poetical Works, ed. Austin Dobson (Oxford, 1906)
Living
IN all my Enna’s beauties blest,
Amidst profusion still I pine;
For though she gives me up her breast,
Its panting tenant is not mine.
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Goldsmith, Oliver. “Translation of a South American Ode.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goldsmith/16/.
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Goldsmith, Oliver. “Translation of a South American Ode.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goldsmith/16/.
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