The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 | Page 2

writer as Horace, I have appended the Latin text. Moreover, Swift was,
like Sterne, very fond of curious and recondite reading, in which it is
not always easy to track him without some research; but I believe that I
have not failed to illustrate any matter that required elucidation.
W. E. B.
May 1910.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
Introduction xv

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's late illness and recovery 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 the 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
Vanbrugh's House
Baucis and
Philemon
Baucis and Philemon
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
Verses written on a Window
On another Window

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
Fabula
Canis et Umbrae
A Prologue
Epilogue
Prologue
Epilogue

Answer to Prologue and Epilogue
On Gaulstown House
The
Country Life
Dr. Delany's Villa
On one of the Windows at Delville

Carberiae Rupes
Carbery Rocks
Copy of the Birthday Verses on
Mr. Ford
On Dreams
Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift
The Answer
A
Quiet Life and a Good Name
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; an Epigram
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
Epigram on Busts in Richmond
Hermitage
Another
A Conclusion from above Epigrams
Swift's
Answer
To Swift on his Birthday with a Paper Book from the Earl of
Orrery Verses on Swift's Birthday with a Silver Standish
Verses
occasioned by foregoing Presents
Verses sent to the Dean with an
Eagle quill
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
Written by Swift on his own Deafness
The Dean's
Complaint
The Dean's manner of living
Epigram by Mr. Bowyer

Verses made for Fruit Women
On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel

Epigrams on Windows
To Janus, on New Year's Day
A Motto for
Mr. Jason Hasard
To a Friend
Catullus de Lesbia
On a Curate's
complaint of hard duty
To Betty, the Grisette
Epigram from the
French
Epigram
Epigram added by Stella
Joan cudgels Ned

Verses on two modern Poets
Epitaph on General Gorges and Lady
Meath
Verses on I know not what
Dr. Swift to himself

An
Answer to a Friend's question
Epitaph
Epitaph
Verses written
during Lord Carteret's administration
An Apology to Lady Carteret

The Birth of Manly Virtue
On Paddy's Character of the
"Intelligencer"
An Epistle to Lord Carteret by Delany
An Epistle
upon an Epistle
A Libel on Dr. Delany and Lord Carteret
To Dr.
Delany
Directions for a Birthday Song
The Pheasant and the Lark
by Delany
Answer to Delany's Fable
Dean Smedley's Petition to the
Duke of Grafton
The Duke's Answer by Swift
Parody on a
character of Dean Smedley
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Johnson, in his "Life of Swift," after citing with approval Delany's
character of him, as he describes him to Lord Orrery, proceeds to say:
"In the poetical works there is not much upon which the critic can

exercise his powers. They are often humorous, almost always light, and
have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and
gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The
diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There
seldom occurs a hard laboured expression or a redundant epithet; all his
verses exemplify his own definition of a good style--they consist of
'proper words in proper places.'"
Of his earliest poems it is needless to say more than that if nothing
better had been written by him than those Pindaric Pieces, after the
manner of Cowley--then so much in vogue--the remark of Dryden,
"Cousin Swift, you will never be a Poet," would have been fully
justified. But conventional praise and compliments were foreign to his
nature, for his strongest characteristic was his intense sincerity. He says
of himself that about that time he had writ and burnt and writ again
upon all manner of subjects more than perhaps any man in England;
and it is certainly remarkable that in so doing his true genius was not
sooner developed, for it was not till he became chaplain in Lord
Berkeley's household that his satirical humour was first displayed--at
least in verse--in "Mrs. Frances Harris' Petition."--His great