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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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Mutton
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On The Vowels 494 Views
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Oysters
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The Place of the Damned
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On An Ill-Managed House
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To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair
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On Stephen Duck, the Thresher, and Favourite Poet. A Quibbl 360 Views
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On Snow
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Market Women’s Cries
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Cadenus And Vanessa
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Dingley And Brent
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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
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The Lady's Dressing Room
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The Beasts' Confession
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An Excellent New Song Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace
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Death And Daphne
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The Windsor Prophecy
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Ballad
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On Himself 136 Views
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An Echo
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Stella’s Birth-Day: A Great Bottle Of Wine, Long Buried, Being That Day Dug Up. 1722-3
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Atlas; Or The Minister Of State 130 Views
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A Description of a City Shower
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To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness
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The Gulf of All Human Possessions
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Lady Acheson Weary Of The Dean
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On A Shadow In A Glass
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Baucis And Philemon
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The Author Upon Himself
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Dean Swift At Sir Arthur Acheson’s In The North Of Ireland
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A Riddle 116 Views
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To Stella, Written On The Day Of Her Birth. March 13, 1723-4, But Not On The Subject, When I Was Sick In Bed
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Stella’s Birth-Day.1719-20
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Twelve Articles
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The Fable Of Midas
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On Cutting Down The Thorn At Market-Hill
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The Dean’s Answer 108 Views
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Mrs Frances Haris's Petition
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The Revolution At Market-Hill
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The Famous Speech-Maker Of England Or Baron (Alias Barren) Lovel’s Charge At The Assizes At Exon, April 5, 1710
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Fontinella To Florinda
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On A Very Old Glass At Market-Hill 104 Views
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Elegy Upon Tiger
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On The Gallows
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Stella’s Birth-Day. 1724-5
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Corinna
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Riddles By Dr. Swift And His Friends
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On The Moon
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Robin And Harry
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Toland’s Invitation To Dismal To Dine With The Calve’s Head Club
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Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
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A Modest Proposal
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A Pastoral Dialogue
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On A Pen
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Elegy On Partridge
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The Garden Plot 86 Views
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Parody On The Recorder’s Speech To His Grace The Duke Of Ormond, 4th July, 1711
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On The World
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Bec’s Birth-Day Nov. 8, 1726
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Daphne
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Horace, Epist. I, VII Imitation Of Horace To Lord Oxford
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The Progress Of Marriage
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A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North
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Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers 82 Views
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The Fagot
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To Stella On Her Birth-Day, 1721-2
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To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems
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Stella At Wood Park, A House Of Charles Ford, Esq., Near Dublin
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Lines Written Extempore On Mr. Harley’s Being Stabbed, And Addressed To His Physician, 1710-11 79 Views
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A Description of the Morning 78 Views
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A Maypole
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Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
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On Ink
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On A Cannon
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On The Five Senses 75 Views
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The Progress of Poetry
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On A Circle 70 Views
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A Receipt To Restore Stella’s Youth. 1724-5
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On Time 69 Views
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On Stella's Birth-Day, 1719
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Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
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The Grand Question Debated: Whether Hamilton’s Bawn Should Be Turned Into A Barrack Or Malt-House
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A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
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The Dean’s Reasons For Not Building At Drapier’s-Hill
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My Lady’s Lamantation And Complaint Against The Dean
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Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation
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Louisa To Strephon
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On A Pair Of Dice 59 Views
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Peace And Dunkirk
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Answered Extempore By Dr. Swift
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On A Horn
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The Sick Lion and the Ass
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The Virtues Of Sid Hamet The Magician’s Rod
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On A Candle
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On Gold
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Sid Hamet’s Rod 48 Views
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A New Year’s Gift For Bec
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Phillis, Or, the Progress of Love
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Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
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Epitaph In Berkeley Church-Yard, Gloucestershire
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On The Posteriors
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A Character, Panegyric, And Description Of The Legion Club
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Stella's Birthday, March 13, 1726
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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed.
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Mr. William Crowe’s Address To Her Majesty, Turned Into Metre
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On A Corkscrew
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To Lady Carteret
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A Ballad On The Game Of Traffic 23 Views
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A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix And Timothy
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A Friendly Apology For A Certain Justice Of Peace By Way Of Defence Of Hartley Hutcheson, Esq. By James Black-Well, Operator For The Feet
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A Fable Of The Lion And Other Beasts
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A Conclusion, Drawn From The Epigrams, Epigram On The Busts, And Sent To The Drapier 8 Views
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A Conference, Between Sir Harry Pierce's Chariot, And Mrs. D. Stopford's Chair
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