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THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738)


Poems found: 96

A HIGHLANDER ONCE FOUGHT A FRENCHMAN AT MARGATE

A SCRIBBLER FROM THE NORTHERN BEAR

BE STILL, THOU BUSY FOOLISH THING

GROUSE POUTS

HOW CAN I FINISH WHAT YOU HAVE BEGUN

I CAN'T BUT WONDER, MR. DEAN

I LIKE YOUR COLLYRIUM

I SEND THIS AT NINE

I WISH YOUR REVERENCE WERE HERE TO HEAR THE TRUMPETS

I'LL WRITE WHILE I HAVE HALF AN EYE IN MY HEAD

IF THESE CAN'T KEEP YOUR LADIES QUIET

MY HENS ARE HATCHING

MY PEDAGOGUE DEAR, I READ WITH SURPRISE

MY WALK IT IS FINISHED

O WOULD THAT ENEMY I DREAD, MY FATE

OUR RIVER IS DRY

SO ON THE STREAM THE SILVER SWAN

THUS DID GREAT SOCRATES IMPROVE THE MIND

THUS PUPPIES THAT ADORE THE DARK

WHY SPATTER ME, YOU MADLY BABBLING BARD

YOU MADE ME IN YOUR LAST A GOOSE

YOU SHALL WANT NOTHING FIT FOR MORTAL MAN

A LETTER FROM DR. SHERIDAN TO DR. SWIFT

A LETTER OF ADVICE TO RIGHT HON. JOHN EARL OF ORRERY

A PROLOGUE TO A PLAY PERFORMED AT MR. SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL

A RIDDLE

AN ODE. TO BE PERFORMED AT THE CASTLE OF DUBLIN

ANOTHER PICTURE OF DAN

ANSWER

BALLYSPELLIN

BIRTHDAY POEM ON ANNIVRSARY OF BIRTH OF REV. DR. SWIFT

COPY OF A COPY OF VERSES FROM THOMAS SHERIDAN TO GEORGE NIM-DAN-DEAN

DR. DELANY'S VILLA

DRAPIER'S BALLAD TO TUNE OF THE LONDON 'PRENTICE

ELEGY ON MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF DEMAR, THE FAMOUS RICH MAN

EPILOGUE TO JULIUS CAESAR

EPITAPH

FIVE LADIES' ANSWER TO THE BEAU, WITH WIG AND WINGS AT HEAD

HIS MODEST APOLOGY FOR KNOCKING OUT NEWSBOY'S TEETH

INVIATION TO DINNER FROM DR. SHERIDAN TO DR. SWIFT, 1727

LETTER FROM COBBLER IN PATRICK'S STREET TO JET BLACK

MR. SHERIDAN'S PROLOGUE TO GREEK PLAY PHAEDRA & HIPPOLYTUS

NEW YEAR'S GIFT FOR THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S

ON A CARICATURE

PALINODIA (HORACE, BOOK I, ODE XVI)

POEM DELIVERED TO REV. DOCTOR SWIFT, DEAN OF ST.PATRICK'S

PROLOGUE DESIGNED FOR THE PLAY OF OEDIPUS

PROLOGUE SPOKE BY MR. ELRINGTON AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL ... WEAVERS

PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT MR. SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL

PROLOGUE SPOKEN BEFORE GREEK PLAY AT DR.SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL

PROLOGUE TO THE FARCE OF PUNCH TURNED SCHOOLMASTER

QUATRAIN

QUATRAIN: NOW TO LAMPOON MYSELF FOR MY PRESUMPTION

SHERIDAN TO DAN JACKSON

THE EPILOGUE TO A PLAY PERFORMED AT MR. SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL

THE INVITATION (IN IMITATION HORACE'S EPISTLE TO TORQUATUS)

THE PEDAGOGUE'S ANSWER

THE SICK LION AND THE ASS

THE SONG

THE TALE OF THE T -- D

TO DEAN SWIFT

TO GEORGE NIM-DAN-DEAN, UPON HIS INCOMPARABLE VERSES

TO HIS EXCELLENCY OUR LORD CARTERET, LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND

TO REV. DOCTOR SWIFT, DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S. A BIRTHDAY POEM

TO RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT MONT-CASSEL

TO THE AUTHOR OF 'TOM PUN-SIBI METAMORPHOSED'

TO THE DEAN (1)

TO THE DEAN (2)

TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (1)

TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (2)

TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (3)

TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (4)

TO THE DEAN, WHEN IN ENGLAND, IN 1726

TO THE HONORABLE MR. D.T.

TRUE AND FAITHFUL INVENTORY OF GOODS BELONGING TO DR. SWIFT

UPON STEALING A CROWN WHEN THE DEAN WAS ASLEEP

UPON WILLIAM TISDALL, D.D.

YOU THAT WOULD READ THE BIBLE

DELANY, MOST LEARNED OF MEN

GOOD JONATHAN, I'VE READ YOUR DITTY

GROUSE POUTS ARE COME IN

LIFE'S BAD ON JUST A BIT, BUT

SOME NYMPHS MAY BOAST EXTERNAL GRACE

WHEN G--LE HAS HER MIND AT EASE

BOOKWORM'S CONTENT

NEW SIMILE FOR LADIES

FROM TIM AND THE FABLES

FROM UPON A CERTAIN BOOKSELLER, OR PRINTER, IN UTOPIA

HUMBLE PETITION OF STELLA'S FRIEND (POSSIBLY W/DELANY;OTHERS

JOSHUA BATTUS' SPEPEECH TO THE PAPARLIAMENT

ON DEAN SWIFT'S PROPOSED HOSPITAL

PROLOGUE TO JULIUS CAESAR, ACTED AT MADAM VIOLANTE'S BOOTH

LAST SPEECH AND DYING WORDS OF DANIEL JACKSON

ORIGINAL OF PUNNING (FROM PLATO'S SYMPOSIACS)

RIVALS. POEM, OCCASIONED BY TOM PUNSIBI, METAMORPHOSED

TO A DUBLIN PUBLISHER



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