Jonathan Swift's Poetry, by popularity

• On The World

  WITH a whirl of thoughts oppress’d, 
  I sunk from reverie to rest. 

  22 lines
• On An Ill-Managed House

  LET me thy properties explain: 
  A rotten cabin dropping rain: 

  12 lines
• Market Women’s Cries

  APPLES
  COME buy my fine wares, 

  43 lines
• To Stella, Written On The Day Of Her Birth. March 13, 1723-4, But Not On The Subject, When I Was Sick In Bed

  Tormented with incessant pains,
  Can I devise poetic strains?

  37 lines
• On A Pen

  In youth exalted high in air,
  Or bathing in the waters fair,

  41 lines
• On A Horn

  The joy of man, the pride of brutes,
  Domestic subject for disputes,

  35 lines
• Elegy On Partridge

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

  112 lines
• The Dean’s Answer

  The nymph who wrote this in an amorous fit,
  I cannot but envy the pride of her wit,

  27 lines
• Stella’s Birth-Day: A Great Bottle Of Wine, Long Buried, Being That Day Dug Up. 1722-3

  Resolv'd my annual verse to pay,
  By duty bound, on Stella's day,

  79 lines
• Stella At Wood Park, A House Of Charles Ford, Esq., Near Dublin

  Don Carlos, in a merry spight,
  Did Stella to his house invite:

  91 lines
• The Famous Speech-Maker Of England Or Baron (Alias Barren) Lovel’s Charge At The Assizes At Exon, April 5, 1710

  From London to Exon,
  By special direction,

  250 lines
• To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness

  Pallas, observing Stella's wit
  Was more than for her sex was fit,

  123 lines
• On The Moon

  I with borrow'd silver shine
  What you see is none of mine.

  19 lines
• On Ink

  I am jet black, as you may see,
    The son of pitch and gloomy night:

  39 lines
• Robin And Harry

  Robin to beggars with a curse,
  Throws the last shilling in his purse;

  53 lines
• The Revolution At Market-Hill

  From distant regions Fortune sends
  An odd triumvirate of friends;

  109 lines
• Parody On The Recorder’s Speech To His Grace The Duke Of Ormond, 4th July, 1711

  THE RECORDER'S SPEECH EXPLAINED BY THE TORIES
  An ancient metropolis, famous of late

  43 lines
• Mr. William Crowe’s Address To Her Majesty, Turned Into Metre

  From a town that consists of a church and a steeple,
  With three or four houses, and as many people,

  41 lines
• To Stella On Her Birth-Day, 1721-2

  While, Stella, to your lasting praise
  The Muse her annual tribute pays,

  19 lines
• Probatur Aliter

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

  117 lines
• My Lady’s Lamantation And Complaint Against The Dean

  Sure never did man see
  A wretch like poor Nancy,

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

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

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

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

  129 lines
• The Dean’s Reasons For Not Building At Drapier’s-Hill

  I will not build on yonder mount;
  And, should you call me to account,

  113 lines
• The Windsor Prophecy

  When a holy black Swede, the son of Bob,
  With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob,

  25 lines
• On A Candle

  Of all inhabitants on earth,
  To man alone I owe my birth,

  53 lines
• To Lady Carteret

  FROM India's burning clime I'm brought,
  With cooling gales like zephyrs fraught.

  13 lines
• The Grand Question Debated: Whether Hamilton’s Bawn Should Be Turned Into A Barrack Or Malt-House

  Thus spoke to my lady the knight full of care,
  "Let me have your advice in a weighty affair.

  210 lines
• Sid Hamet’s Rod

  Poor Hall, renown'd for comely hair,
  Whose hands, perhaps, were not so fair,

  14 lines
• The Gulf of All Human Possessions

  Come hither, and behold the fruits,
  Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.

  95 lines

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