Poems by Jonathan Swift
Parody On The Recorders Speech To His Grace The Duke Of Ormond, 4th July, 1711
... Thus ended the speech, but what heart would not pity ...
Probatur Aliter
... [22] A long-ear'd beast, a thing that force must drive in, ...
On Time
... All-devouring, all-destroying, ...
Market Womens Cries
... Come, eat them with pure fresh butter and mustard,&emsp ...
Dingley And Brent
... Comes Dingley, and asks you, what was it ...
Stellas Birth-Day.1719-20
... Then, who can think we'll quit the place, ...
On A Very Old Glass At Market-Hill
... Though none can tell which of us first shall die ...
On Ink
... Let lawyers bawl and strain their throats: ...
Lines Written Extempore On Mr. Harleys Being Stabbed, And Addressed To His Physician, 1710-11
... Think what you save, or what you kill ...
To Lady Carteret
... With cooling gales like zephyrs fraught ...
Elegy On Partridge
... Whose wideness kept their toes from corns, ...
Sid Hamets Rod
... Gave a third part, to save the other two ...
On A Pen
... And then, with heart more hard than stone, ...
Robin And Harry
... Grave Harry, when the poor are pressing ...
To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair
... Stools, Tables, Chairs, and Bed-steds broke: ...