Oliver Goldsmith

Here you will find the Poem Memory of poet Oliver Goldsmith

Memory

O MEMORY, thou fond deceiver,
 Still importunate and vain,
To former joys recurring ever,
 And turning all the past to pain:

Thou, like the world, th' oppress'd oppressing,
 Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe:
And he who wants each other blessing
 In thee must ever find a foe.