CiNii Books - Selected poems

Author(s)

Selected poems

Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction by Pat Rogers

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1993

Includes indexes

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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