Author:Jonathan Swift/Poems
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A
[edit]- Ad Amicum Eruditum Thomam Sheridan (1717)
- Advice to the Grub Street Verse Writers (1726)
- Another Rejoinder in Jackson's Name (1721)
- An Answer to a Friend's Question (c. 1710-1740)
- Answer to A New Simile For the Ladies (1733)
- Answer to Ballad on Ballyspellin (1728)
- The Answer to Dr. Delany's Request (1724)
- Answer to Dr. Sheridan's Prologue, and to Dr. Swift's Epilogue, in behalf of the distressed Weavers (c. 1720-1735)
- The Answer to Paulus, an Epigram (c. 1728)
- Answer to The Pheasant and the Lark (1730)
- Apollo, or a Problem Solved (1731)
- Apollo Outwitted (c. 1706)
- Apollo to the Dean (1720)
- Apollo's Edict: Occasioned by News From Parnassus (1723)
- An Apology (c. 1733-36)
- Atlas, or the Minister of State (1710)
- The Author Upon Himself (1713)
- Ay and No: A Tale from Dublin (1737)
B
[edit]- A Ballad on the Game of Traffick (1699)
- A Ballad to the Tune of the Cut-purse (1699)
- Baucis and Philemon (1708)
- The Beasts' Confession (1732)
- The Beasts' Confession to the Priest (1732)
- The Beau's Reply (1728)
- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (c. 1731)
- Bec's Birthday (1726)
- Bettesworth's Exultation, Upon Hearing that His Name Would Be Transmitted to Posterity in Dr. Swift's Works (c. 1720-1740)
- Billet to a Company of Players (c. 1710-1730)
- The Birth of Manly Virtue (1724)
- Birthday Verses on Mr. Ford (c. 1723)
- Bouts Rimés, on Signora Domitilla (c. 1710-1740)
C
[edit]- Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)
- Carberiæ Rupes (1723)
- Carbery Rocks (1723)
- Cassinus and Peter (1731)
- Catullus de Lesbia (c. 1713)
- Clad All in Brown (c. 1728)
- Clever Tom Clinch (1727)
- Conclusion From These Epigrams, With Dr. Swift's Answer (1732)
- Corinna (1712)
- The Country Life (1721)
D
[edit]- Dan Jackson's Defence (1721)
- Daphne (c. 1730)
- The Day of Judgment (c. 1733)
- The Dean and Duke (1734)
- Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson's (c. 1727)
- The Dean's Answer to Dr. Sheridan's Poem (1719)
- The Dean's Answer to The Rebus (c. 1713)
- The Dean's Answer to the Stolen Crown (c. 1725)
- The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered (c. 1710-1730)
- The Dean's Manner of Living (c. 1733-36)
- The Dean's Reasons For Not Building at Drapier's Hill (1730)
- Death and Daphne (1730)
- A Description of a City Shower (1710)
- A Description of a City Shower
- The Description of a Salamander (1720)
- The Description of an Irish Feast (1720)
- A Description of the Morning (1709)
- A Description of the Morning
- Desire and Possession (1727)
- A Dialogue Between an Eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift (c. 1728)
- A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy (1728)
- Dick, a Maggot (c. 1728)
- Dick's Variety (c. 1728)
- Dingley and Brent (c. 1724)
- Directions for Making a Birthday Song (1725)
- The Discovery (c. 1706)
- The Dog and Shadow (c. 1710-1730)
- The Dog and Thief (1726)
- Dr. Helsham's Answer to Swift's Epistle to Two Friends (1731)
- Dr. Swift on His Own Deafness (c. 1710-1730)
- Dr. Swift to Himself on St Cecilia's Day (c. 1728)
- Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope While He Was Writing the Dunciad (1727)
- Dr. Swift's Answer (c. 1727)
- Dr. Swift's Reply (to the poem On a Very Old Glass at Market Hill) (1719)
- Drapier's Hill (1730)
- The Duke's Answer, by Dr. Swift (c. 1722)
E
[edit]- An Echo
- Elegy on Partridge the Almanack Maker (1708)
- An Elegy on the Death of Demar the Usurer (1720)
- An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanack-Maker
- Epigram – 1 (1712)
- Epigram – 2 (c. 1721)
- Epigram from the French (c. 1713)
- Epigram on an Irish Magazine (c. 1736) (Said to be Swift’s last poem)
- Epigram on Delacour's Complimenting Carthy on His Poetry (c. 1710-1730)
- Epigram on Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry (c. 1735)
- Epigram on Wood's Brass Money (1725)
- Epigrams, Occasioned by Dr. Swift's Intended Hospital for Idiots and Lunaticks (c. 1720-1740)
- Epigrams on the Busts in Richmond Hermitage (1732)
- Epigrams on Windows (1726)
- Epilogue to a Play for the Benefit of Distressed Weavers (c. 1721)
- Epistle to a Lady (c. 1732)
- An Epistle to Mr. Gay (1731)
- Epistle to Two Friends (1731)
- An Epistle upon an Epistle From a Certain Doctor to a Certain Great Lord (1729)
- The Epitaph (John Partridge) (c. 1708)
- Epitaph at Lee in Kent, on William Pate, the learned Woollen-draper (1746)
- Epitaph on the Duke of Schomberg (1731)
- Epitaph on the Duke of Suffolk's Fool (1728)
- Epitaph on the Earl of Berkeley (1712)
- Epitaph on General Gorges and Lady Meath (1728)
- An Epitaph on Partridge
- Epitaph on the Same [Demar the Usurer] (1720)
- An Excellent New Ballad on the True English Dean (c. 1730)
- An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet (1720)
- An Excellent New Song on the Earl of Nottingham (1711)
F
[edit]- The Fable of Midas (1711)
- The Fable of the Bitches (1715)
- The Faggot (1713)
- A Fan
- Fragment of a Satire (c. 1710-1730)
- A Friendly Apology for Hartley Hutchinson (c. 1733)
- The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)
G
[edit]- A Gentle Echo on Woman (c. 1710-1730)
- A Gentle Echo on Woman
- George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer (1721)
- George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Invitation to Thomas Sheridan (1721)
- The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn (1729)
H
[edit]- The Hardship Upon the Ladies (1733)
- Helter Skelter (c. 1725)
- The History of Vanbrugh's House (1708)
- Horace, Book I. Ep. V. (John Dennis’s Invitation) (1714)
- Horace, Book I. Ode XIV. (Inscribed to Ireland) (1726)
- Horace, Book II. Ode I. (Addressed to Richard Steele) (1714)
- Horace, Book III. Ode II. (Sent to the Earl of Oxford When in the Tower) (1716)
- Horace, Book IV. Ode IX. (Addressed to Archbishop King) (1718)
- Horace, Book IV, Ode XIX, Addressed to Humphry French, Late Lord Mayor of Dublin (c. 1731)
- Horace, Part of Book I, Sat. IV (To Sir Thomas Prendergast) (1733)
I
[edit]- Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII. (1713)
- Imitation of Horace, Book II. Sat. 6 (1714)
- In Sickness (1714)
J
[edit]- Joan Cudgels Ned (1723)
- The Journal of a Modern Lady (1728)
- Judas (1731)
L
[edit]- The Ladies Dressing Room (1730)
- A Left-Handed Letter to Dr. Sheridan (1718)
- The Legion Club (1736)
- A Letter to Dr. Helsham (c. 1733-36)
- Letter to Dr. Sheridan (1719)
- A Libel on Dr. Delany and Lord Carteret (1729)
- The Logicians Refuted
- A Love Poem from a Physician to His Mistress (c. 1727)
- A Love Song
- A Love Song in the Modern Taste (1733)
M
[edit]- Mary the Cook Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan (1723)
- A Maypole
- Merlin's Prophecy (1709)
- Molly Mog (1726)
- A Motto for Jason Hazard (c. 1718)
- Mrs. Harris's Petition (1699)
- My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint (1728)
N
[edit]- A New Song on Wood's Halfpence (1725)
- A New Year's Gift for Bec (1724)
O
[edit]- Occasioned by Sir William Temple's Late Illness and Recovery (1693)
- Ode on Science (c. 1725)
- Ode to Dr. William Sancroft, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (1689)
- Ode to King William, on his Successes in Ireland (c. 1692)
- Ode to Sir William Temple (1689)
- Ode to the Athenian Society (1691)
- On a Candle
- On a Cannon
- On a Circle
- On a Corkscrew
- On a Curate's Complaint of Hard Duty (c. 1713)
- On a Pair of Dice
- On a Pen
- On a Printer's Being Sent to Newgate (c. 1733)
- On a Shadow in a Glass
- On a Very Old Glass at Market Hill (c. 1727)
- On Burning a Dull Poem (1729)
- On Censure (1727)
- On Cutting Down the Old Thorn at Market-Hill (c. 1727)
- On Dan Jackson's Picture – 4 (1721)
- On Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry (1735)
- On Dr. Swift (1733)
- On Dreams (c. 1724)
- On Ink
- On Mr. Pulteney's Being Put Out of the Council (1731)
- On Mrs. Biddy Floyd (c. 1706)
- On One of the Windows at Delville (c. 1722)
- On Paddy's Character of the Intelligencer (1729)
- On Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)
- On Psyche (c. 1733)
- On Reading Dr. Young's Satires (1726)
- On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel (c. 1733-36)
- On Snow
- On Stephen Duck (1730)
- On the Archbishop of Cashel and Bettesworth (c. 1733)
- On the Collar of Tiger (c. 1726)
- On the Dean of St. Patrick's Birthday; being on Nov. 30, St. Andrew's Day (c. 1720-1740)
- On the Death of Dr. Swift (1731)
- On the Five Ladies at Sot's-hole (1728)
- On the Five Senses
- On the Irish Bishops (1731)
- On the Irish Club (c. 1730)
- On the Little House by the Churchyard of Castlenock (1710)
- On the Moon
- On the Union (c. 1706)
- On the Vowels
- On the Words Brother Protestants and Fellow Christians Used (1733)
- On Time
- On Wood the Ironmonger (1725)
P
[edit]- Palinodia. Horace, Book I. Ode XVI. (c. 1726)
- A Panegyrick on the Dean (1730)
- Parody on a Character of Dean Smedley (c. 1729)
- The Parson's Case (c. 1732-3)
- A Pastoral Dialogue between Dermot and Sheelah (1728)
- A Pastoral Dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill (1727)
- Peace and Dunkirk (1712)
- Pethox the Great (1723)
- Phyllis, or the Progress of Love (1716)
- The Place of the Damned (1731)
- The Power of Time (1730)
- The Problem (c. 1706)
- The Progress of Beauty (1720)
- The Progress of Marriage (c. 1730)
- The Progress of Poetry (c. 1720)
- Prometheus: On Wood's Halfpence (1724)
- The Puppet Show (c. 1725-9)
Q
[edit]- A Quibbling Elegy on Judge Boat (1723)
- A Quiet Life and a Good Name (1724)
R
[edit]- A Receipt to Restore Stella's Youth (1725)
- A Rejoinder in Jackson's Name (1721)
- The Revolution at Market Hill (1730)
- A Riddle (c. 1707)
- Riddles (1724)
- Robin and Harry (1730)
- The Run upon the Bankers (1720)
S
[edit]- A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a General (1722)
- A Serious Poem upon Will Wood (1725)
- Sheridan's Submission, by the Dean (1721)
- A Simile on Our Want of Silver (1725)
- The South Sea Project (1721)
- Stella at Wood Park (1723)
- Stella's Birthday, 1718-9 (1719)
- Stella's Birthday, 1719-20 (1720)
- Stella's Birthday, 1721-2 (1722)
- Stella's Birthday, 1722-3 (1723)
- Stella's Birthday, 1724-5 (1725)
- Stella's Birthday, 1726-7 (1727)
- Strephon and Chloe (1731)
T
[edit]- Tim and the Fables (c. 1728)
- To A Friend Who Had Been Much Abused in Many Different Libels (c. 1721)
- To Betty the Grisette (1730)
- To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him (c. 1729)
- To Dr. Sheridan (1718)
- To Dr. Sheridan on His Art of Punning (c. 1721)
- To Janus on New-Year's Day (1726)
- To Lord Harley on his Marriage (1713)
- To Love (c. 1713)
- To Mr. Congreve (1693)
- To Mr. Delany (1718)
- To Mr. Thomas Sheridan Upon His Verses Written in Circles (1721)
- To Mrs. Houghton of Beaumont (c. 1720)
- To Quilca (1725)
- To Stella (On Her Birthday) (1724)
- To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness (1720)
- To Stella, on transcribing his Poems (1720)
- To the Earl of Peterborow (c. 1706)
- To the Rev. Daniel Jackson (1721)
- To the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's: a Birthday Poem 1736 (1736)
- Toland's Invitation to Dismal (1712)
- Tom Mullinix and Dick (c. 1728)
- A Town Eclogue (1710)
- Traulus, a Dialogue Between Tom and Robin (1730)
- Twelve Articles (c. 1730)
U
[edit]- Upon Carthy's Threatening to Translate Pindar (c. 1710-1730)
- Upon the Horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin (1723)
V
[edit]- Vanbrugh's House (1706)
- Verses Made For Fruit Women (c. 1733-36)
- Verses Occasioned by the Foregoing Presents (1732)
- Verses on I Know Not What (c. 1710-1730)
- Verses on St. Patrick's Well (1726)
- Verses on the Upright Judge Who Condemned the Drapier's Printer – 1 (c. 1724)
- Verses on the Upright Judge Who Condemned the Drapier's Printer – 2 (c. 1724)
- Verses on the Upright Judge Who Condemned the Drapier's Printer – 3 (c. 1724)
- Verses on Two Celebrated Modern Poets (c. 1710-1740)
- Verses Written on a Window at the Deanery (c. 1720)
- A Vindication of the Libel (c. 1733)
- The Virtues of Sid Hamet's Rod (1710)
W
[edit]- Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724)
- The Windsor Prophecy (1711)
- Will Wood's Petition (1725)
- Wood an Insect (1725)
- Written in a Lady's Ivory Tablebook (1699)
Y
[edit]- The Yahoo's Overthrow (c. 1733)
- A Young Lady's Complaint, For the Stay of the Dean in England (c. 1710-1730)