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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667-1745) Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE GENTLEMAN'S STUDY, IN ANSWER TO THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM", by MISS" "W---- [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "some write of angels, some of goddess" Last Line: "they are still fulsome, wretched man" Alternate Author Name(s): "w----, Miss; Subject(s): "man-woman Relationships;men;swift, Jonathan (1667-1745);women's Rights;" Male-female Relations;feminism A DESCRIPTION IN ANSWER TO THE JOURNAL, SELECTION, by WILLIAM PERCIVAL Poem Text First Line: As for himself, with draggled gown Last Line: Or buffoon, call him if you please. Subject(s): Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) A LETTER FROM DR. SHERIDAN TO DR. SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd have you to know, as sure as you're dean Last Line: Take care you do not bid too many. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) A SATYR, SELECTION, by JONATHAN SMEDLEY Poem Text First Line: Science and arts are at a stand Last Line: The dusty press would stand quite still. Subject(s): Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT NUGENT WITH PICTURE OF DR. SWIFT, SELECTION, by WILLIAM DUNKIN Poem Text First Line: Hibernia's helicon is dry, / invention, wit and humour die Last Line: Is but a shell without the gem. Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) BIRTHDAY POEM ON ANNIVRSARY OF BIRTH OF REV. DR. SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day, the fav'rite of the year Last Line: "you never can, nor shall forsake him." Subject(s): Birthdays; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) BRIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sunlight on the cathedral Last Line: Looking at this? Subject(s): Churches; Insanity; Light; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) DEAN SWIFT, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: There was a terribleness about the man Last Line: And his eyes had a blaze of light! Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: The parquet shines; outside the snow falls deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: Hypocrite swift sent stella a green apron %and dead desire Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights IF IT BE TRUE, by ESTHER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If it be true, celestial powers Last Line: Bestow upon my mind Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights IMITATION OF SWIFT, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy! Bring an ounce of freeman's best Subject(s): Tobacco; Wit & Humor; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SATIRE 2.6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've often wish'd that I had clear Last Line: A crust of bread, and liberty.' Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) INSCRIPTIO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou! Whose sense, whose humour, and whose rage Last Line: And brings the true saturnian age of lead. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) INVIATION TO DINNER FROM DR. SHERIDAN TO DR. SWIFT, 1727, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sent to the ladies this morning to warn 'em Last Line: You have a pencil in your pocket. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) JONATHAN SWIFT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sovereign mind Last Line: As age, as ordure, and as size Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) LINES ON SWIFT'S ANCESTORS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonathan swift / had the gift Last Line: For england hath its own. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to thy native place! Last Line: Endu'd with all the virtues of a horse. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) ON SENDING MY SON AS A PRESENT TO DR. SWIFT, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A curious statue, we are told Last Line: A meaner were unworthy swift Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Gifts & Giving; Birthdays; Sons ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As rochfoucault [or rochfoucauld] his maxims drew Last Line: "I wish it soon may have a better." Variant Title(s): Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rochefoucauld, Francois De La (1613-80); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Dead, The; Liberty POEM DELIVERED TO REV. DOCTOR SWIFT, DEAN OF ST.PATRICK'S, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixteen hundred sixty-eight Last Line: Make me a cart'ret, if you can. Subject(s): Birthdays; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 2. DEAN SWIFT, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then to swift, and, though he brag / that we're nothing but Last Line: Reading, gulliver. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) QUILCA HOUSE TO THE DEAN, by HENRY BROOKE Poem Text First Line: I plainly see, good mr. Dean Last Line: What yours cannot -- eternity. Subject(s): Houses; Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SERMON ON SWIFT (1967), by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle of hand, the dean of st. Patrick's guided Last Line: His sandals worn out, unsoled, a voice proclaiming %the world's mad business - eternal absolution Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SWIFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Caged in a cathedral he Last Line: Lashed others to be free Subject(s): Churches; Freedom; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SWIFT, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What shall presto do for pretty prattle Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SWIFT, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall presto do for pretty prattle Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SWIFT'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swift has sailed into his rest Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SWIFT'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift has sailed into his rest Last Line: World-besotted traveller; he %served human liberty Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) THE HAPPY LIFE OF A COUNTRY PARSON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parson, these things in thy possessing Last Line: And shake his head at doctor swift. Variant Title(s): Dr. Swift Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as glumdalclitch miss'd her pleasing care Last Line: And europe taste thy sorrows in a dish. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) THE MAN-MOUNTAIN'S ANSWER TO THE LILLIPUTIAN VERSES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little thing! / I would sing Last Line: Little poet! To the ground. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) THE WORDS OF THE KING OF BROBDINGNAG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In miniature see nature's power appear Last Line: Humility's the virtue of the great. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO DEAN SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dean, since in cruxes and puns you and I deal Last Line: While your fiery steed is whipped, spurred, bastinaded. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO DR. SWIFT ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER 1721, by ESTHER JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: St. Patrick's dean, your country's pride Last Line: While stella holds her station still. Subject(s): Love; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO MR. LEMUEL GULLIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, we wretches of the houyhnhnm band Last Line: Houyhnhnm. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In amaze / lost I gaze Last Line: Lofty poet, touch the sky. Variant Title(s): Ode To Quinbus Flestrin Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO REV. DOCTOR SWIFT, DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S. A BIRTHDAY POEM, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, my true and faithful friend Last Line: You see, dear dean, my dream is out. Subject(s): Birthdays; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DEAN (1), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't think these few lines which I send a reproach Last Line: Make up the best catch when they're coupled together? Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DEAN (2), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, perhaps you may wonder, I send you so soon Last Line: Dear dean, I shall ne'er be divided from you. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (1), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, your billingsgate muse methinks does begin Last Line: Which is all at present from yours, Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (2), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since your poetic prancer is turned into cancer Last Line: Little did she know, I was ambidexter. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (3), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dean, I'm in a sad condition Last Line: Some ending where they just begun. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (4), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, since you in humble wise Last Line: And thus I'll keep you under. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers TO THE DEAN, WHEN IN ENGLAND, IN 1726, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will excuse me, I suppose Last Line: Because I've more vexation here. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TOM PUNSIBI'S LETTER TO DEAN SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1719-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When to my house you come, dear dean Last Line: "do you fall to, and I'll say grace." Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TRUE AND FAITHFUL INVENTORY OF GOODS BELONGING TO DR. SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An oaken, broken elbow-chair Last Line: Why not, as well as doctor swift? Subject(s): Property; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Possessions UPON STEALING A CROWN WHEN THE DEAN WAS ASLEEP, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dean, since you in sleepy wise Last Line: That all you lose belongs to me. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift. Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors |
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