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[Illustration]
Hester Vanhomrigh (Vanessa)
From a Picture in
the possession G. Villiers Brinus Esq;
THE POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.
EDITED BY WILLIAM ERNST BROWNING
BARRISTER, INNER TEMPLE
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF
LORD CHESTERFIELD"
VOL. II
LONDON
G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. 1910

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II
PAGE
Cadenus and Vanessa 1
To Love 23
A Rebus by Vanessa 24
The
Dean's Answer 25
Stella's Birth-Day 26
Stella's Birth-Day 26
To
Stella 28
To Stella 32
Stella to Dr. Swift 35
To Stella 37
On the
Great Buried Bottle 37
Epitaph 38
Stella's Birth-Day 38
Stella at
Wood-Park 40
A New Year's Gift for Bec 43
Dingley and Brent 44

To Stella 45
Verses by Stella 46
A Receipt to restore Stella's
Youth 46
Stella's Birth-Day 48
Bec's Birth-Day 49
On the Collar
of Tiger 51
Stella's Birth-Day 51
Death and Daphne 54
Daphne
57
RIDDLES
Pethox the Great 59
On a Pen 62
On Gold 63
On the Posteriors
64
On a Horn 65
On a Corkscrew 66
The Gulf of all Human
Possessions 67
Louisa to Strephon 70
A Maypole 71
On the
Moon 72
On a Circle 73
On Ink 73
On the Five Senses 74

Fontinella to Florinda 75
An Echo 76
On a Shadow in a Glass 77


On Time 78
On the Gallows 78
On the Vowels 79
On Snow 79

On a Cannon 80
On a Pair of Dice 80
On a Candle 80
To Lady
Carteret by Delany 82
Answered by Dr. Swift 83
To Lady Carteret
83
Answered by Sheridan 84
A Riddle 84
Answer by Mr. F----r
84
A Letter to Dr. Helsham 85
Probatur aliter 87
POEMS COMPOSED AT MARKET HILL
On cutting down the Thorn 89
To Dean Swift 92
Dean Swift at Sir
Arthur Acheson's 93
On a very old Glass at Market Hill 94

Answered extempore by Dr. Swift 95
Epitaph 95
My Lady's

Lamentation 95
A Pastoral Dialogue 99
The Grand Question
debated 101
Drapier's Hill 106
The Dean's Reasons 107
The
Revolution at Market Hill 110
Robin and Harry 113
A Panegyric
on the Dean 115
Twelve Articles 125
POLITICAL POETRY
Parody 127
Jack Frenchman's Lamentation 129
The Garden Plot
132
Sid Hamet's Rod 133
The Famous Speech-Maker 136
Parody
on the Recorder's Speech 143
Ballad 144
Atlas; or the Minister of
State 147
Lines on Harley's being stabbed 148
An Excellent New
Song 148
The Windsor Prophecy 150
Corinna, a Ballad 152
The
Fable of Midas 153
Toland's Invitation to Dismal 156
Peace and
Dunkirk 157
Imitation of Horace, Epist. I, vii 159
The Author upon
Himself 163
The Fagot 166
Imitation of Horace, Sat. VI, ii 167

Horace paraphrased, Odes II, i 171
Dennis' Invitation to Steele 175

In Sickness 180
The Fable of the Bitches 181
To the Earl of Oxford
in the Tower 182
On the Church's Danger 183
A Poem on High
Church 183
The Story of Phaethon 184
A Tale of a Nettle 186
A
Satirical Elegy 187
POEMS CHIEFLY RELATING TO IRISH POLITICS
Parody on Pratt's Speech 189
An Excellent New Song 192
The Run
upon the Bankers 193
Upon the Horrid Plot 196

Quibbling Elegy
on Judge Boat 198
The Epitaph 199
Verses on Whitshed's Motto
200
Prometheus 201
Verses on the Order of the Bath 203

Epigram on Wood's Brass Money 203
A Simile 204
Wood an
Insect 205
Wood the Ironmonger 206
Wood's Petition 207
A New
Song on Wood's Halfpence 209
A Serious Poem 211
An Excellent
New Song 215
Verses on the Judge who condemned the Drapier's
Printer 217 On the Same 218
On the Same 218
Epigram 218

Horace paraphrased, Odes I, xiv 219
Verses on St. Patrick's Well 221

On reading Dr. Young's Satire 224
The Dog and Thief 226
Mad

Mullinix and Timothy 226
Tim and the Fables 234
Tom and Dick
235
Dick, a Maggot 236
Clad all in Brown 237
Dick's Variety
238
Traulus. Part I 239
Traulus. Part II 242
A Fable of the Lion
244
On the Irish Bishops 246
Horace, Odes IV, ix 248
On
Walpole and Pulteney 250
Brother Protestants 252
Bettesworth's
Exultation 254
Epigram to Serjeant Kite 255
The Yahoo's
Overthrow 256
On the Archbishop of Cashel and Bettesworth 259

On the Irish Club 259
On Noisy Tom 260
On Dr. Rundle 261

Epigram 263
The Legion Club 264
On a Printer's being sent to
Newgate 272
Vindication of the Libel 272
A Friendly Apology 274

Ay and No 275
A Ballad 276
A Wicked Treasonable Libel 277

Epigrams against Carthy 278-283
Poetical Epistle to Sheridan 283

Lines written on a Window 284
Lines written underneath by
Sheridan 285
The Upstart 285
On the Arms of the Town of
Waterford 286
Translation 287
Verses on Blenheim 287
An
Excellent New Song 288
An Excellent New Song upon the
Archbishop of Dublin 289
To the Archbishop of Dublin 291
To the
Citizens 292
Punch's Petition to the Ladies 294
Epigram 296

Epigram on Josiah Hort 297
Epigram 297
TRIFLES
George Rochfort's Verses 298
A Left-handed Letter 298
To the
Dean of St. Patrick's