The Red Lion, Drury Lane. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774). London Taverns. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I-IV

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

London Taverns

The Red Lion, Drury Lane

Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774)


(From Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber) WHERE the Red Lion, staring o’er the way,
Invites each passing stranger that can pay;
Where Calvert’s butt and Parson’s black champagne
Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane;
There in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug,	5
The Muse found Scroggen stretched beneath a rug.