Jonathan Swift's Poetry, by written

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

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

  11 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
• 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
• Ballad

  A WONDERFUL age
      Is now on the stage:

  89 lines
• Atlas; Or The Minister Of State

  TO THE LORD TREASURER OXFORD
  

  24 lines
• Lines Written Extempore On Mr. Harley’s Being Stabbed, And Addressed To His Physician, 1710-11

  On Britain Europe's safety lies,
  Britain is lost if Harley dies:

  3 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
• 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
• Corinna

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

  38 lines
• The Fable Of Midas

  Midas, we are in story told,
  Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:

  81 lines
• Toland’s Invitation To Dismal To Dine With The Calve’s Head Club

  If, dearest Dismal, you for once can dine
  Upon a single dish, and tavern wine,

  45 lines
• Peace And Dunkirk

  Spite of Dutch friends and English foes,
  Poor Britain shall have peace at last:

  43 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
• The Author Upon Himself

  By an old ——pursued,
  A crazy prelate, and a royal prude;

  73 lines
• The Fagot

  Observe the dying father speak:
  Try, lads, can you this bundle break?

  51 lines
• 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

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