Jonathan Swift's Poetry, by first line

• The Lady's Dressing Room

  By haughty Celia spent in dressing;
  The goddess from her chamber issues,

  143 lines
• Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers

  Ye poets ragged and forlorn,
  Down from your garrets 

  22 lines, 1 comment
• Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

  Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons quelque chose, qui ne nous dé

  484 lines, 2 comments
• On Stephen Duck, the Thresher, and Favourite Poet. A Quibbl

  The Thresher Duck, could o'er the Q {-}{-}{-}{-}{-}{-} prevail,
  The Proverb says; No Fence against a Flayl.

  8 lines
• Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727

  This day, whate'er the Fates decree,
  Shall still be kept with joy by me:

  93 lines
• Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719

  Stella this day is thirty-four,
  (We shan't dispute a year or more:)

  19 lines
• A Description of the Morning

  Now hardly here and there a hackney-coach
  Appearing, show'd the ruddy morn's approach.

  18 lines, 1 comment
• Oysters

  Charming oysters I cry:
  My masters, come buy,

  16 lines
• The Place of the Damned

  All folks who pretend to religion and grace,
  Allow there's a HELL, but dispute of the place:

  18 lines
• Phillis, Or, the Progress of Love

  Desponding Phillis was endu'd
  With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,

  100 lines
• The Progress of Poetry

  The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble,
  Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble;

  46 lines, 1 comment
• A Description of a City Shower

  Careful Observers may fortel the Hour
  (By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r:

  63 lines
• To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems

  As, when a lofty pile is raised,
  We never hear the workmen praised,

  143 lines
• The Sick Lion and the Ass

  A lion sunk by time's decay,
  Too feeble grown to hunt his prey,

  38 lines, 1 comment
• Mrs Frances Haris's Petition

  To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland,
  The humble petition of Frances Harris,

  83 lines
• A Maypole

  Deprived of root, and branch and rind,
  Yet flowers I bear of every kind:

  24 lines
• Elegy Upon Tiger

  Her dead lady's joy and comfort,
  Who departed this life

  38 lines
• A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed

  Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane,
  For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain;

  75 lines
• To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair

    Let me thy Properties explain,
    A rotten Cabin, dropping Rain;

  11 lines
• Elegy On Partridge

    Well; 'tis as Bickerstaff has guess'd,
    Though we all took it for a jest:

  112 lines
• Probatur Aliter

  A long-ear'd beast, and a field-house for cattle,
  Among the coals doth often rattle.[1]

  117 lines
• Ballad

  A WONDERFUL age
      Is now on the stage:

  89 lines
• Louisa To Strephon

  Ah! Strephon, how can you despise
  Her, who without thy pity dies!

  43 lines
• On The Five Senses

  All of us in one you'll find, Brethren of a wondrous kind;
  Yet among us all no brother

  26 lines
• Stella’s Birth-Day.1719-20

  All travellers at first incline
  Where'er they see the fairest sign

  57 lines
• On Gold

  All-ruling tyrant of the earth,
  To vilest slaves I owe my birth,

  35 lines
• An Excellent New Song Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace

  An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire,
  Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire,

  58 lines
• Market Women’s Cries

  APPLES
  COME buy my fine wares, 

  43 lines
• Stella’s Birth-Day. 1724-5

  As when a beauteous nymph decays,
  We say she's past her dancing days;

  53 lines
• On Cutting Down The Thorn At Market-Hill

  At Market-Hill, as well appears
    By chronicle of ancient date,

  129 lines

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