Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One

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Authors: Jonathan Swift In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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Ode to Doctor William Sancroft
Ode to Sir William Temple
Ode to King William
Ode to the Athenian Society
To Mr. Congreve
Occasioned by Sir William Temple etc.
Written in a Lady's Ivory Table Book
Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition
A Ballad on the Game of Traffic
A Ballad to the tune of Cutpurse
The Discovery
The Problem
The Description of a Salamander
To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough
On the Union
On Mrs. Biddy Floyd
The Reverse
Apollo Outwitted
Answer to Lines from May Fair
Vanbrugh's House ver.1
Vanbrugh's House ver.2
Baucis and Philemon ver.1
Baucis and Philemon ver.2
The History of Vanbrugh's House
A Grub Street Elegy
The Epitaph
A Description of the Morning
A Description of a City Shower
On the Little House
A Town Eclogue
A Conference
To Lord Harley on his Marriage
Phyllis
Horace, Book IV, Ode ix
To Mr. Delany
An Elegy
To Mrs. Houghton and Window Verses
Apollo to the Dean
News from Parnassus
Apollo's Edict
The Description of an Irish Feast
The Progress of Beauty
The Progress of Marriage
The Progress of Poetry
The South Sea Project
A Prologue on Stroller Licensing
Epilogue to Mr. Hoppy
Prologue for the Weavers
Epilogue for the Weavers
Answer to Prologue and Epilogue
On Gaulstown House
The Country Life
Dr. Delany's Villa and Delville Window
Carbery Rocks
Copy of the Birthday Verses on Mr. Ford
On Dreams
Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift and The Answer
A Quiet Life and a Good Name and Advice
A Pastoral Dialogue
Desire and Possession
On Censure
The Furniture of a Woman's Mind
Clever Tom Clinch
Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope
A Love Poem
Bouts Rimez
Helter Skelter
The Puppet Show
The Journal of a Modern Lady
The Logicians Refuted
The Elephant; or the Parliament Man
Paulus Epigram and The Answer
A Dialogue
On Burning a Dull Poem
An Excellent New Ballad
On Stephen Duck
The Lady's Dressing Room
The Power of Time
Cassinus and Peter
A Beautiful Young Nymph
Strephon and Chloe
Apollo; or A Problem Solved
The Place of the Damned
The Day of Judgment
Judas
An Epistle to Mr. Gay
To a Lady
Epigrams on Busts in Richmond Hermitage
Swift's Birthday Presents
An Invitation, by Dr. Delany
The Beasts' Confession
The Parson's Case
The Hardship upon the Ladies
A Love Song
The Storm
Ode on Science
A Young Lady's Complaint
On the Death of Dr. Swift
On Poetry, a Rhapsody
Verses sent to the Dean on his Birthday
Epigram by Mr. Bowyer
On Psyche
The Dean and Duke
Swift on his own Deafness
The Dean's Manner of Living
Verses for Fruit Women
On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel
Epigrams on Windows
To Janus, on New Year's Day
Miscellaneous
An Apology to Lady Carteret
The Birth of Manly Virtue
On Paddy's Character
An Epistle to Lord Cartaret by Delany
An Epistle upon an Epistle
A Libel on Dr. Delany and Lord Carteret
To Dr. Delany on the Libels
Directions for a Birthday Song
The Pheasant and the Lark
Dean Smedley's Petition to the Duke
Parody on a Character of Dean Smedley

Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is such a thing as corrupt rich guys who pretend they're God's gift to the world? So did Swift. Think some of these types strut around as if calls of nature don't apply to them? So did Swift. In one hilarious poem, he even describes gold diggers fighting over the loaded gentleman's gaseous offerings! His poem On Poetry, A Rhapsody, censored for treasonous mocking of the royal family, is in its rare uncensored form here. As free as he himself is with his sharp tongue against the blackened rich and corrupt , he knows others might have to kiss up to eat. So he includes many verses of advice on how to go about lying for a living, for example, "Your interest lies to learn the knack Of whitening what before was black." Despite the decay and hypocrisy he sees all around him he stays upbeat throughout -- even making fun out of his own tragic onset of deafness. You already know this giant of English literature for the great feast of prose he left us. Think of these delicious poems here as your sinful dessert. - Summary by Arthur Krolman