Selected poems
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Selected poems
（Penguin classics）
Penguin, 1993
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This selection of Swift's poetry is drawn from "The Penguin English Poets Complete Poems", edited by Pat Rogers.
Table of Contents
- Verses wrote in a lady's ivory table-book
- the humble petition of Frances Harris
- the description of a salamander
- Baucis and Philemon
- a description of the morning
- the virtues of Sid Hamet the magician's rod
- a description of a city shower
- an excellent new song
- Cadenus and Vanessa
- Horace, Epistle VII, Book I - imitated and addressed to the Earl of Oxford
- the author upon himself
- Horace, Lib.2, Sat 6
- Mary the cook-maid's letter to Dr Sheridan
- Stella's birthday (1719)
- the progress of beauty
- to Stella, who collected and transcribed his poems
- upon the south sea project
- Stella's birthday (1721)
- the part of a summer
- the progress of marriage
- a satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general
- upon the horrid plot discovered by Harlequin the Bishop of Rochester's French dog
- Stella's birthday (1723)
- to Charles Ford, Esq on his birthday
- Pethox the great
- to Stella, written on the day of her birth
- Prometheus
- Stella's birthday (1725)
- a receipt to restore Stella's youth
- to Quilca
- a pastoral dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill
- the furniture of a woman's mind
- Holyhead - September 25, 1727
- the journal of a modern lady
- the grand question debated
- a libel on the Reverend Dr Delany and His Excellency John, Lord Carteret
- death and Daphne
- an excellent new ballad
- the lady's dressing room
- a beautiful young nymph going to bed
- Strephon and Chloe
- Cassinus and Peter
- to Mr Gray
- verses on the death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D.
- on the day of judgement
- on poetry - a rhapsody
- to a lady
- a character, panegyric, and description of the Legion Club.
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