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JONATHAN SWIFT


Poems found: 344

A PAPER BOOK IS SENT BY BOYLE

A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG NYMPH GOING TO BED

A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION CLUB

A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER

A DESCRIPTION OF THE MORNING

A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN (IN THE DORIC MANNER)

A LIBEL ON THE REVEREND DR. DELANY AND JOHN, LORD CARTERET

A SATIRICAL ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A LATE FAMOUS GENERAL

AN EPIGRAM ON SCOLDING

CLEVER TOM CLINCH GOING TO BE HANGED

DICK, A MAGGOT

DRAPIER'S HILL

HELTER SKELTER; OR, THE HUE AND CRY AFTER THE ATTORNEYS

HOLYHEAD, SEPTEMBER 25, 1727

IN SICKNESS (1714)

MRS. HARRIS'S PETITION: TO EXCELLENCIES THE LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND

ON A CURATE'S COMPLAINT OF HARD DUTY

ON BURNING A DULL POEM; WRITTEN IN 1729

ON THE COLLAR OF MRS. DINGLEY'S LAP-DOG

ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT

STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1718

STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1720

STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1725

STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1726-7

THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT

THE LADY'S DRESSING ROOM

THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED

THE PROGRESS OF BEAUTY

THE PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE

THE PROGRESS OF POETRY

TO QUILCA; A COUNTRY HOUSE IN NO GOOD REPAIR

TWELVE ARTICLES

VERSES OCCASIONED BY THE SUDDEN DRYING UP..ST.PATRICK'S WELL

VERSES WROTE IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK

CAN YOU MATCH WITH ME

A BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF THE CUTPURSE

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TOM AND ROBIN: 1. TRAULUS

A LOVE SONG [IN THE MODERN TASTE]

A PANEGYRIC ON THE REVEREND DEAN SWIFT

A PORTRAIT FROM THE LIFE

A RIDDLING LETTER

ADDENA QUAEDAM

ADVICE TO A PARSON; EPIGRAM

AN ANSWER TO A SCANDALOUS POEM

AN ANSWER TO DR. DELANY'S FABLE OF THE PHEASANT AND THE LARK

AN EPIGRAM

AN EPIGRAM INSCRIBED TO THE HONOURABLE SERJEANT KITE

AN EPISTLE UPON AN EPISTLE

AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG

AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG ON A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET

APOLLO; OR, A PROBLEM SOLVED

AYE AND NO

AYE AND NO: A FABLE

BAUCIS AND PHILEMON; IMITATED FROM OVID

DAPHNE

DEATH AND DAPHNE

EPIGRAM ON SEEING A WORTHY PRELATE GO OUT OF CHURCH

EPIGRAM ON THE HERMITAGE AT RICHMOND

EXCELLENT NEW BALLAD, OR THE TRUE ENGLISH DEAN TO BE HANGED

EXCELLENT NEW SONG UPON HIS GRACE..LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN

JUDAS

LADY ACHESON WEARY OF THE DEAN

MARY THE COOK-MAID'S LETTER TO DOCTOR SHERIDAN, 1723

MOLL

ON A PRINTER'S BEING SENT TO NEWGATE

ON CUTTING DOWN THE OLD THORN AT MARKET HILL

ON DR. RUNDEL; BISHOP OF DERRY

ON NOISY TOM PARAPHRASED

ON PSYCHE

ON STEPHEN DUCK, THE THRESHER, AND FAVOURITE POET

ON THE ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL AND BETTESWORTH

ON THE IRISH BISHOPS

PARODY ON THE RECORDER OF BLESSINGTON'S ADDRESS TO QUEEN ANNE, SELECTION

PARODY ON THE SPEECH OF DR. BENJAMIN PRATT TO THE PRINCE OF WALES, SEL

PHYLLIS, OR, THE PROGRESS OF LOVE

POETRY AND LOVE

ROBIN AND HARRY

SHALL I REPINE

THE AUTHOR'S MANNER OF LIVING

THE BEASTS' CONFESSION [TO THE PRIEST]

THE CUDGELED HUSBAND; EPIGRAM

THE DEAN AND DUKE

THE DEAN TO HIMSELF ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY

THE ELEPHANT

THE FABLE OF MIDAS

THE GRAND QUESTION DEBATED

THE HARDSHIP PUT UPON LADIES

THE PARSON'S CASE

THE REVOLUTION AT MARKET HILL

THE VIRTUES OF SID HAMET THE MAGICIAN'S ROD

THE VOWELS: AN ENIGMA

TIME; AN ENIGMA

TO A FRIEND WHO HAD BEEN MUCH ABUSED..MANY INVETERATE LIBELS

TO BETTY THE GRISETTE

TO DEAN SWIFT, BY SIR ARTHUR ACHESON

TO DR. DELANY, ON THE LIBELS WRIT AGAINST HIM

TO DR. HELSHAM

TO DR. SHERIDAN

TO MR. GAY; ON HIS BEING STEWARD TO THE DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY

TO MY LEARNED FRIEND, THOMAS SHERIDAN

TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK

TO THOMAS SHERIDAN

TONIS AD RESTO MARE

VANBRUGH'S HOUSE; BUILT FROM THE RUINS OF WHITEHALL

VERSES ON I KNOW NOT WHAT

VERSES SAID TO BE WRITTEN ON THE UNION

BEHOLD! A PROOF OF IRISH SENSE

DORINDA DREAMS OF DRESS ABED

I BEFORE E

IN PITY TO THE EMPTYING TOWN

MAY YOU LIVE ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE

WE ARE GOD'S CHOSEN FEW

WHEN MRS. WELCH'S CHIMNEY SMOKES

WHERE IS THE SCARED WELL, THAT BORE MY NAME?

BALLAD ON THE GAME OF TRAFFIC

CANTATA

CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION CLUB

CHRISTMAS BOX FOR NAMBY PAMBY, SELS.

COPY OF A COPY OF VERSES

COPY OF VERSES UPON TWO CELEBRATED MODERN POETS

DESCRIPTION OF MOTHER LUDWELL'S CAVE

DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN EMINENT LAWYER AND DR. SWIFT

DIALOGUE BETWEEN CAPTAIN TOM AND SIR HENRY DUTTON COLT

DIALOGUE BETWEEN TOM AND ROBIN: 2

FABLE OF THE WIDOW AND HER CAT

FAN (RIDDLE)

LEFT-HANDED LETTER TO DR. SHERIDAN

LETTER FROM DEAN SWIFT TO DEAN SMEDLEY

LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR SHERIDAN

LIBEL ON THE REVEREND DR. DELANY AND JOHN, LORD CARTERET

LOVE SONG

LOVE SONG FROM DICK BETTESWORTH TO MISS MOLLY WHITEWAY

MAYPOLE (RIDDLE)

NEW SONG OF WOOD'S HALFPENCE

NEW YEAR'S GIFT FOR BEC

PASTORAL DIALOGUE

PASTORAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN RICHMOND LODGE AND MARBLE HILL

POETICAL EPISTLE TO DR. SHERIDAN

QUIBBLING ELEGY ON THE WORSHIPFUL JUDGE BOAT

QUIET LIFE AND A GOOD NAME

RECEIPT TO RESTORE STELLA'S YOUTH

SERIOUS POEM UPON WILLIAM WOOD

SIMILE; ON OUR WANT OF SILVER

TOWN ECLOGUE

TRIP TO DUNKIRK, SELS.

TRUE AND FAITHFUL INVENTORY OF THE GOODS BELONGING

AD AMICUM ERUDITUM THOMAM SHERIDAN

ADVICE TO THE GRUB STREET VERSE WRITERS

ANSWER TO THE BALLYSPELLIN BALLAD

APOLOGY TO THE LADY CARTERET

APOLOGY TO THE LADY CARTERET

ECHO (RIDDLE)

ELEGY ON DICKY AND DOLLY

ELEGY ON THE SUPPOSED DEATH OF MR PARTRIDGE, THE ALMANAC

EPIGRAM ON WOOD'S BRASS MONEY

ANGLO-LATIN VERSES

ANOTHER REPLY BY THE DEAN; IN DAN JACKSON'S NAME

APOLLO OUTWITTED; TO MRS. FINCH (COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA)

APOLLO TO THE DEAN

APOLLO'S EDICT (OCCASIONED BY NEWS FROM PARNASSUS)

ATLAS; OR THE MINISTER OF STATE TO THE LORD TREASURER OXFORD

BAUIS AND PHILEMON, SELS.

BEC'S BIRTHDAY

BILLET TO THE COMPANY OF PLAYERS

BOUNCE TO FOP; AN HEROIC EPISTLE FROM A DOG ... TO A DOG

CADENUS AND VANESSA

CARBERIAE RUPES

CASSINUS AND PETER; A TRAGICAL ELEGY

CLAD ALL IN BROWN

CORINNA

DAN JACKSON'S REPLY; WRITTEN BY THE DEAN IN THE NAME OF

DEAN SMEDLEY GONE TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE

DEAN SWIFT'S ANSWER TO THE REVEREND DR. SHERIDAN

DESIRE AND POSSESSION

DIC

DICK'S VARIETY

DINGLEY AND BRENT

DIRECTIONS FOR A BIRTHDAY SONG

DR. SWIFT TO MR. POPE [WHILE HE WAS WRITING THE DUNCIAD]

DR. SWIFT'S ANSWER TO DR. SHERIDAN

ELEGY ON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF MR. DEMAR ... RICH USERER

EPIGRAM

EPIGRAM

EPIGRAM ON FASTING

EPILOGUE TO A PLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WEAVERS IN IRELAND

EPISTLE TO A LADY, SELS.

EPITAPH IN ST PATRICK'S CALTHEDRAL WRITTEN HIMSELF IN LATIN

FABULA CANIS ET UMBRAE

FROM A LETTER FROM D.S.--T TO D.S--Y

FROM DR. SWIFT TO DR. SHERIDAN

GEORGE NIM-DAN-DEAN'S INVITATION TO MR. THOMAS SHERIDAN

GEORGE NIM-DAN-DEAN, ESQ. TO MR. SHERIDAN

HIS GRACE'S ANSWER TO JONATHAN

HORACE, BOOK I, ODE 14 PARAPHRASED & INSCRIBED TO IRELAND

INSCRIPTION FOR THE SIGNS OF THE JOLLY BARBER WITH A RAZOR

IRELAND

JOURNAL TO STELLA, SELS.

JOVE AND THE SOULS

LINES FROM A FAMOUS PREDICTION OF MERLIN

LINES FROM CADENUS TO VANESSA

LINES FROM DUNKIRK TO BE LET

LINES TO POPE

LOUISA TO STREPHON; RIDDLE

MAD MULLINIX AND TIMOTHY

MR. JASON HASSARD, A WOOLLEN DRAPER IN DUBLIN

MY LADY'S LAMENTATION AND COMPLAINT AGAINST THE DEAN

OCCASIONED BY SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE'S LATE ILLNESS AND RECOVERY

ODE ON SCIENCE

ODE TO DR. WILLIAM SANCROFT; LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

ODE TO SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, SELS.

ODE TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY

ODE TO THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

ODE TO THE KING; ON HIS IRISH EXPEDITION

ODE TO WILLIAM SANCROFT, SELS.

ON A CANDLE (RIDDLE)

ON A CANNON (RIDDLE)

ON A CORKSCREW (RIDDLE)

ON A PAIR OF DICE (RIDDLE)

ON A PEN (RIDDLE)

ON A SHADOW IN A GLASS (RIDDLE)

ON A USURER

ON A VERY OLD GLASS

ON CENSURE

ON DAN JACKSON'S PICTURE

ON DREAMS; AN IMITATION OF PETRONIUS

ON HIS OWN DEAFNESS (1)

ON HIS OWN DEAFNESS (2)

ON INK (RIDDLE)

ON LORD CARTERET'S ARMS

ON MR. PULTENEY BEING PUT OUT OF THE COUNCIL

ON MRS. BIDDY FLOYD

ON NOISY TOM

ON ONE DELACOURT'S COMPLIMENTING CATHY ON HIS POETRY

ON PADDY'S CHARACTER OF 'THE INTELLIGNCER'

ON POETRY, SELS.

ON POETRY: A RHAPSODY

ON READING DR. YOUNG'S SATIRES

ON SEEING THE BUSTS OF NEWTON, LOCKE, AND OTHERS

ON SEEING VERSES WRITTEN UPON WINDOWS AT INNS

ON SNOW (RIDDLE)

ON THE BURNING OF WHITEHALL IN 1698

ON THE CHURCH'S DANGER

ON THE FIVE LADIES AT SOT'S HOLE, WITH THE DOCTOR AT...HEAD

ON THE FIVE SENSES (RIDDLE)

ON THE IRISH CLUB

ON THE LITTLE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD OF CASTLENOCK

ON THE MOON (RIDDLE)

ON THE WORDS 'BROTHER PROTESTANTS AND FELLOW CHRISTIANS'

ON WISDOM'S DEFEAT IN A LEARNED DEBATE

ON WOOD THE IRONMONGER

PANEGYRIC ON THE DEAN, IN THE PERSON OF A LADY IN THE NORTH

PEACE AND DUNKIRK; SURRENDER OF DUNKIRK TO GENERAL HILL

PETHOX THE GREAT

POETS AND POETASTERS

PROBATUR ALITER

PROMETHEUS; ON WOOD THE PATENTEE'S IRISH HALFPENCE

RIDDLE

RIDDLE

RIDDLE

RIDDLE: AS THE WORLD TURNS

SCRIBLERIAN VERSES

SHERIDAN'S SUBMISSION; WRITTEN BY THE DEAN

SHERIDAN, A GOOSE

STELLA AT WOODPARK

STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1723

STREPHON AND CHLOE

SWIFT TO SHERIDAN

ANSWER TO DELANY'S RIDDLE

ANSWER TO DR. DELANEY

ANSWER TO PAULUS, BY MR. LINDSAY

ANSWER TO VANESSA'S REBUS

ANSWER, BY DR. SWIFT

AUTHOR UPON HIMSELF

BEAU'S REPLY TO THE FIVE LADIES' ANSWER

BITCHES; ON AN ATTEMPT TO REPEAL THE TEST ACT

BOOK THROWN DOWN

CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S TO THOMAS SHERIDAN

DEAN TO THOMAS SHERIDAN

DEAN'S ANSWER TO 'UPON STEALING A CROWN'

DEAN'S REASONS FOR NOT BUILDING AT DRAPIER'S HILL

DESCRIPTION OF A SALAMANDER

DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FEAST

DISCOVERY

DOG AND THE THIEF

ENGLISH IN IRELAND (ST. PATRICK SPEAKS)

EPITAPH

FAGGOT

FAMOUS SPEECH-MAKER OF ENGLAND, SELS.

FIRST ODE HORACE PARAPHRASED AND ADDRESSED TO R. STEELE

FIRST OF APRIL

FIVE

FURNITURE OF A WOMAN'S MIND

GULF OF ALL HUMAN POSSESSIONS; RIDDLE

HISTORY OF VANBRUGH'S HOUSE

JOURNAL OF A MODERN LADY

LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DEAN SWIFT

LOYAL ADDRESS OF THE CLERGY OF VIRGINIA, SELS.

PART OF A SUMMER

PROBLEM

PROGRESS OF BEAUTY

PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE

REVERSE

RUN UPON THE BANKERS

SPEECH (AGAINST PEACE)

STORM; MINERVA'S PETITION

WINDSOR PROPHECY

YAHOO'S OVERTHROW

TIM AND THE FABLES

TO A LADY WHO DESIRED THE AUTHOR TO WRITE SOME VERSES

TO CHARLES FORD, ESQ. ON HIS BIRTHDAY

TO DOCTOR DELANY, SELS.

TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN

TO JANUS; ON NEW YEAR'S DAY

TO LORD HARLEY, SINCE EARL OF OXFORD, ON HIS MARRIAGE

TO MR. CONGREVE

TO MR. DELANY

TO MR. GAY, SELS.

TO MR. HARLEY'S SURGEON

TO MR. SHERIDAN, UPON HIS VERSES WRITTEN IN CIRCLES

TO MRS HOUGHTON OF BORMOUNT

TO MY MISTRESS

TO STELLA ON HER BIRTHDAY, WRITTEN 1721-22

TO STELLA, VISITING ME IN MY SICKNESS

TO STELLA, WHO COLLECTED AND TRANSCRIBED HIS POEMS

TO THE EARL OF PETERBOROUGH

TOLAND'S INVITATION TO DISMAL TO DINE (IMITATED FROM HORACE)

TOM MULLINEX AND DICK

UPON FOUR DISMAL STORIES IN THE DOCTOR'S LETTER

UPON THE HORRID PLOT DISCOVERED BY HARLEQUIN ... FRENCH DOG

UPON THE SOUTH SEA PROJECT

VERSE SCRATCHED ON A WINDOW OF THE YACHT INN AT CHESTER

VERSES FROM QUILCA: 1

VERSES FROM QUILCA: 2. THE BLESSINGS OF A COUNTRY-LIFE

VERSES FROM QUILCA: 3. THE PLAUGES OF A COUNTRY-LIFE

VERSES I LEFT IN A WINDOW OF DUBLIN CASTLE

VERSES MADE FOR THE WOMEN WHO CRY APPLES, ETC

VERSES MADE IN SWIFT'S SLEEP

VERSES ON HIS OWN DEATH, SELS.

VERSES ON THE REVIVAL OF THE ORDER OF BATH

VERSES ON THE UPRIGHT JUDGE

VERSES WROTE IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK

WHITSHED'S MOTTO ON HIS COACH

WOOD, AN INSECT



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