Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
English satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric

Poems by Jonathan Swift

• A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
• A Description of a City Shower
• A Description of the Morning
• A Fable of the Lion and Other Beasts
• A Gentle Echo on Woman
• A Maypole
• A New Year’s Gift for Bec
• A Panegyric of the Dean in the Person of a Lady in the North
• A Pastoral Dialogue
• A Rebus. By Vanessa
• A Riddle
• A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
• Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
• An Echo
• Answered Extempore by Dr. Swift
• At Holyhead
• Baucis and Philemon
• Cadenus and Vanessa
• Corinna
• Daphne
• Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson’s, in the North of Ireland
• Death and Daphne
• “Dingley and Brent”
• Drapier’s Hill
• Elegy on Partridge
• Epitaph in Berkeley Church-Yard, Gloucestershire
• Fontinella to Florinda
• Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation
• Lady Acheson Weary of the Dean
• Louisa to Strephon
• Love
• Market Women’s Cries
• Mr. William Crowe’s Address to Her Majesty, Turned into Metre
• Mrs Frances Haris's Petition
• Mutton
• On a Candle
• On a Circle
• On a Corkscrew
• On a Horn
• On a Pair of Dice
• On a Pen
• On a Shadow in a Glass
• On a Very Old Glass at Market-Hill
• On an Upright Judge
• On Cutting down the Thorn at Market-Hill
• On Gold
• On Himself
• On Snow
• On Stella's Birth-day 1719
• On the Five Senses
• On the Moon
• On the Posteriors
• On the Vowels
• On the World
• On Time
• Oysters
• Peace and Dunkirk
• Phillis, or, The Progress of Love
• Robin and Harry
• Sid Hamet’s Rod
• Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
• The Author upon Himself
• The Beasts' Confession
• The Dean’s Answer
• The Fable of Midas
• The Fagot
• The Garden Plot
• The Lady's Dressing Room
• The Place of the Damned
• The Progress of Poetry
• The Sick Lion and the Ass
• The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician’s Rod
• The Windsor Prophecy
• To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness
• To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 1
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 2
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 3
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 4
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 5
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 6
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 7
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 8
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 9
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 10
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 11
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. 12
• Twelve Articles Addressed to Lady Acheson. Conclusion
• Verses on Blenheim
• Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

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