Jonathan Swift's Poetry, by title

• A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed

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

  75 lines
• A Description of a City Shower

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

  63 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
• A Letter To Dr. Helsham

    Pray discruciate what follows.
  

  113 lines
• A Maypole

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

  24 lines
• A New Year’s Gift For Bec

  Returning Janus now prepares,
  For Bec, a new supply of cares,

  25 lines
• A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North

  Resolved my gratitude to show,
  Thrice reverend Dean, for all I owe,

  345 lines
• A Pastoral Dialogue

  DERMOT, SHEELAH
  

  110 lines
• A Receipt To Restore Stella’s Youth. 1724-5

  The Scottish hinds, too poor to house
  In frosty nights their starving cows,

  55 lines
• A Riddle

  I'm wealthy and poor,
  I'm empty and full,

  7 lines
• A Satirical Elegy On The Death Of A Late Famous General

  His Grace! impossible! what dead!
  Of old age too, and in his bed!

  32 lines
• Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers

  Ye poets ragged and forlorn,
  Down from your garrets 

  22 lines, 1 comment
• An Echo

  Never sleeping, still awake,
  Pleasing most when most I speak;

  29 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
• Answered Extempore By Dr. Swift

  1 lines
• Atlas; Or The Minister Of State

  TO THE LORD TREASURER OXFORD
  

  24 lines
• Ballad

  A WONDERFUL age
      Is now on the stage:

  89 lines
• Baucis And Philemon

  IN ancient times, as story tells,
  The saints would often leave their cells,

  177 lines
• Bec’s Birth-Day Nov. 8, 1726

  This day, dear Bec, is thy nativity;
  Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it ye.

  59 lines
• Cadenus And Vanessa

  THE shepherds and the nymphs were seen
  Pleading before the Cyprian Queen.

  889 lines
• Corinna

  This day (the year I dare not tell)
    Apollo play'd the midwife's part;

  38 lines
• Daphne

  Daphne knows, with equal ease,
  How to vex, and how to please;

  51 lines
• Dean Swift At Sir Arthur Acheson’s In The North Of Ireland

  The Dean would visit Market-Hill,
    Our invitation was but slight;

  63 lines
• Death And Daphne

  Death went upon a solemn day
  At Pluto's hall his court to pay;

  99 lines
• Dingley And Brent

  Dingley and Brent,
        Wherever they went,

  21 lines
• Elegy On Partridge

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

  112 lines
• Elegy Upon Tiger

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

  38 lines
• Epitaph In Berkeley Church-Yard, Gloucestershire

  Here lies the Earl of Suffolk's fool,
    Men call'd him Dicky Pearce;

  12 lines
• Fontinella To Florinda

  When on my bosom thy bright eyes,
    Florinda, dart their heavenly beams,

  29 lines
• Horace, Epist. I, VII Imitation Of Horace To Lord Oxford

  Harley, the nation's great support,
  Returning home one day from court,

  137 lines

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