Poet
Jonathan Swift
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane,
A Description of a City Shower
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour
A Description of the Morning
Now hardly here and there a hackney-coach
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
Ye poets ragged and forlorn,
A Maypole
Deprived of root, and branch and rind,
A Satirical Elegy
His Grace! impossible! what dead!
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
His Grace! impossible! what, dead!
Elegy Upon Tiger
Her dead lady's joy and comfort,
Mrs Frances Haris's Petition
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland,
On Stella's Birth-Day 1719
Stella this Day is thirty four,
On Stella's Birth-Day, 1719
Stella this Day is thirty four,
On Stephen Duck, the Thresher, and Favourite Poet. A Quibbl
The Thresher Duck, could o'er the Q {-}{-}{-}{-}{-}{-} prevail,
Oysters
Charming oysters I cry:
Phillis, Or, the Progress of Love
Desponding Phillis was endu'd
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
Stella this day is thirty-four,
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
This day, whate'er the Fates decree,
The Beasts' Confession
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents
The Place of the Damned
All folks who pretend to religion and grace,
The Progress of Poetry
The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble,
The Sick Lion and the Ass
A lion sunk by time's decay,
To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair, where th
Let me thy Properties explain,
To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems
As, when a lofty pile is raised,
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew
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