All songs by Oliver Goldsmith

• A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring
• A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon generally proves most fatal
• A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness which depends not on circumstance but constitution
• A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete they should reward as well as punish
• A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night or two
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• All Mr Burchell’s villainy at once detected. The folly of being over-wise
• An amour which promises little good fortune yet may be productive of much
• Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy
• Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest
• Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities
• Fresh calamities
• Fresh mortifications or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings
• Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible and fortune will at last change in our favour
• Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution
• Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice
• No situation however wretched it seems but has some sort of comfort attending it
• None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable
• Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom
• Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation
• The Conclusion
• The Deserted Village
• The Hermit
• The Traveller
• The Village Schoolmaster
• The description of a person discontented with the present government and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties
• The description of the family of Wakefield in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons
• The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter
• The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances
• The family still resolve to hold up their heads
• The family use art which is opposed with still greater
• The happiness of a country fire-side
• The history of a philosophic vagabond pursuing novelty but losing content
• The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue
• The same subject continued
• The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction
• Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding
• When lovely woman stoops to folly