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Poem by Oliver Goldsmith


Hope


To the last moment of his breath 
	On Hope the wretch relies, 
And even the pang preceding death 
	Bids Expectation rise.

Hope like the gleaming taper’s light
	Adorns and cheers our way, 
And still as darker grows the night
	Emits a brighter ray.



Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith's other poems:
  1. Italy
  2. Answer to an Invitation to Pass the Christmas at Barton
  3. The Traveller
  4. From the Latin of Vida
  5. The Logicians Refuted


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Joseph Addison Hope ("Our lives, discoloured with our present woes")
  • Emily Brontë Hope ("Hope was but a timid friend")
  • George Herbert Hope ("I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he")
  • Charlotte Smith Hope ("Parody on Lord Strangford's")
  • Edith Nesbit Hope ("O THRUSH, is it true?")
  • Joseph Drake Hope ("See through yon cloud that rolls in wrath")
  • Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Hope ("The Tree of Knowledge we in Eden prov'd")
  • Mathilde Blind Hope ("All treasures of the earth and opulent seas")

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