"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."
The Deserted Village
At least 71 entries in ESTC (1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800). Complicated publication history: consult William B. Todd, "The Private Issues of the Deserted Village," in <u>Studies in Bibliography</u> 6 (1954), 25-44.<br>
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<u>The Deserted Village, a Poem. By Dr Goldsmith.</u> (London: Printed for W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine Street, Strand, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114134914&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO [false imprint]</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Poems and Plays. By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. to Which Is Prefixed, the Life of the Author.</u> (Dublin: Printed for Wm. Wilson, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004771299.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u> (London and New York: Longman and Norton, 1972). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200379924:2">Link to LION</a>&gt;