Work(s) of Jonathan Swift

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This listing contains work(s) of Jonathan Swift available for reading. Click on a book title's link below to select a book to read online.

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Titles in Fiction/Novel Category                                   Top

• Gulliver's Travels A novel of traveling
  

Titles in Non-fiction Category                                   Top

• Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions, The from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Battle of the Books, The
  
• Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers, The
  
• First He Wrote, The
  
• Predictions for The Year 1708
  
• Second Prayer, The from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Tale of a Tub, A
  
• Three Sermons, Three Prayer
  

Titles in Essay Category                                   Top

• Art Of Political Lying, The
  
• Hints towards an essay on conversation from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Meditations Upon A Broomstick from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Modest Proposal, A
  
• Pulpit Eloquence ["The Tatler," No. 66]
  
• Thoughts on various subjects from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  

Titles in Poem Category                                   Top

• Advice To The Grub-Street Verse-Writers
  
• Answer To A Friend's Question, An
  
• Answer To Lines From May Fair
  
• Apollo Outwitted
  
• Apollo To The Dean
  
• Apollo's Edict
  
• Apollo; or, A Problem Solved
  
• Apology To Lady Carteret, An
  
• Apples Verses Made for Fruit-women
  
• Asparagus Verses Made for Fruit-women
  
• Author Upon Himself, The
  
• Ay And No
  
• Ballad On The Game Of Traffic, A
  
• Ballad To The Tune Of The Cut-Purse, A
  
• Ballad [Patrick Astore, What News Upon The Town?], A
  
• Baucis and Philemon from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Baucis And Philemon, on The Ever-Lamented Loss Of The Two Yew-Trees
  
• Baucis And Philemon, On The Ever-Lamented Loss Of Two Yew-Trees (later version)
  
• Beasts' Confession, The from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Beasts' Confession To The Priest, The
  
• Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed, A
  
• Bettesworth's Exultation
  
• Birth Of Manly Virtue, The
  
• Bouts Rimez On Signora Domitilla
  
• Cadenus and Vanessa from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Carberiae Rupes In Comitatu Corgagensi
  
• Carbery Rocks
  
• Cassinus And Peter - A Tragical Elegy
  
• Catullus De Lesbia
  
• Character, Panegyric, And Description Of The Legion Club, A
  
• Clad All In Brown
  
• Clever Tom Clinch Going To Be Hanged
  
• Conference Between Sir Harry Pierce's Chariot, And Mrs. D. Stopford's Chair, A
  
• Copy Of The Birth-Day Verses
  
• Corinna, A Ballad
  
• Daphne
  
• Day Of Judgment, The
  
• Dean And Duke, The
  
• Dean Smedley's Petition To The Duke Of Grafton
  
• Dean's Manner Of Living, The
  
• Death And Daphne, To An Agreeable Young Lady, But Extremely Lean
  
• Dennis' Invitation To Steele; Horace, Book I, Ep. V
  
• Description Of A City Shower, A
  
• Description Of A Salamander, The
  
• Description Of An Irish Feast, The
  
• Description Of The Morning, A
  
• Desire And Possession
  
• Dialogue Between An Eminent Lawyer And Dr. Jonathan Swift, A
  
• Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix And Timothy, A
  
• Dick's Variety
  
• Dick, A Maggot
  
• Dingley And Brent
  
• Directions For Making A Birth-Day Song
  
• Discovery, The
  
• Dog And Thief, The
  
• Dr. Delany's Villa
  
• Dr. Swift To Himself On St. Cecilia's Day
  
• Dr. Swift To Mr. Pope, While He Was Writing The "Dunciad"
  
• Drapier's-Hill
  
• Echo, An A humorous poem
  
• Elegy On The Death Of Demar, The Usurer, An
  
• Elephant; Or, The Parliament Man, The
  
• Epigram Added By Stella
  
• Epigram By Mr. Bowyer
  
• Epigram By Mr. Bowyer Intended To Be Placed Under The Head Of Gulliver
  
• Epigram From The French
  
• Epigram In Answer To The Dean's Verses On His Own Deafness
  
• Epigram Inscribed To The Honourable Sergeant Kite, An
  
• Epigram On Josiah Hort Archbishop Of Tuam
  
• Epigram On The Busts In Richmond Hermitage
  
• Epigram On Wood's Brass Money
  
• Epigram [As Thomas Was Cudgell'd One Day By His Wife]
  
• Epigram [Behold! A Proof Of Irish Sense]
  
• Epigram [Friend Rundle Fell, With Grievous Bump]
  
• Epigram [great Folks Are Of A Finer Mould]
  
• Epigram [The Scriptures Affirm], An
  
• Epigrams Against Carthy
  
• Epigrams On Windows
  
• Epilogue To Mr. Hoppy's Benefit-Night, At Smock-Alley
  
• Epistle To His Excellency John, Lord Carteret, An
  
• Epistle To Mr. Gay, An
  
• Epistle Upon An Epistle, An
  
• Epitaph Inscribed On A Marble Tablet, In Berkeley Church
  
• Epitaph On Frederick, Duke Of Schomberg
  
• Epitaph On General Gorges, And Lady Meath
  
• Epitaph [Beneath This Verdant Hillock Lies]
  
• Epitaph [Here, Five Feet Deep, Lies On His Back], The
  
• Epitaph [In Berkeley Church-Yard, Gloucestershire]
  
• Excellent New Ballad Or, The True English Dean To Be Hanged For A Rape, An
  
• Excellent New Song On A Seditious Pamphlet, An
  
• Excellent New Song Upon His Grace Our Good Lord Archbishop Of Dublin, An
  
• Excellent New Song, Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace, An
  
• Fable Of Midas, The
  
• Fable Of The Bitches, The
  
• Fable Of The Lion And Other Beasts, A
  
• Fabula Canis Et Umbrae
  
• Fagot, The
  
• Famous Speech-Maker Of England, The
  
• Fan, A A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• Fontinella To Florinda
  
• Friendly Apology For A Certain Justice Of Peace, A
  
• Furniture Of A Woman's Mind, The
  
• Garden Plot, The
  
• Gentle Echo on Woman, A A humorous poem
  
• Grand Question Debated: Hamilton's Bawn Be Turned Into A Barrack or Malt-House, The
  
• Grub-Street Elegy, A
  
• Gulf Of All Human Possessions, The
  
• Hardship Upon The Ladies, The
  
• Helter Skelter
  
• Herrings Verses Made for Fruit-women
  
• History Of Vanbrugh's House, The
  
• Horace, Book I, Ode XIV, Paraphrased And Inscribed To Ireland
  
• Horace, Book II, Ode I, Paraphrased Addressed To Richard Steele, Esq
  
• Horace, Book IV, Ode IX, Addressed to Archbishop King
  
• Horace, Book IV, Ode IX, Addressed to Humphry French
  
• Horace, Epist. I, VII; Imitation Of Horaceto Lord Oxford
  
• Imitation Of Part Of The Sixth Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace
  
• In Sickness
  
• Invitation, By Dr. Delany, In The Name Of Dr. Swift, An
  
• Jack Frenchman's Lamentation
  
• Joan Cudgels Ned
  
• Journal Of A Modern Lady In A Letter To A Person Of Quality, The
  
• Judas
  
• Lady's Dressing-Room, The
  
• Letter To Dr. Helsham, A
  
• Libel, A
  
• Lines Written On A Window In The Episcopal Palace At Kilmore
  
• Logicians Refuted, The from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Louisa To Strephon
  
• Love Poem From A Physician To His Mistress, A
  
• Love Song, A A humorous poem
  
• Love Song In The Modern Taste, A
  
• Maypole, A A humorous poem
  
• Motto For Mr. Jason Hasard, A
  
• Mr. William Crowe's Address To Her Majesty, Turned Into Metre
  
• Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition, 1699
  
• My Lady's Lamentation And Complaint Against The Dean
  
• New Song On Wood's Halfpence, A
  
• New Year's Gift For Bec, A
  
• News From Parnassus
  
• Occasioned By Sir William Temple's Late Illness And Recovery
  
• Ode On Science
  
• Ode To Doctor William Sancroft Late Lord Bishop Of Canterbury
  
• Ode To King William On His Successes In Ireland
  
• Ode To The Athenian Society
  
• Ode To The Hon. Sir William Temple
  
• On a Candle A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On a Cannon A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On a Circle A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On a Corkscrew A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On A Curate's Complaint Of Hard Duty
  
• On A Horn
  
• On a Pair of Dice A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On a Pen A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On A Printer's Being Sent To Newgate
  
• On a Shadow in a Glass A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On Burning A Dull Poem
  
• On Censure
  
• On Cutting Down The Thorn At Market-Hill
  
• On Dr. Rundle, Bishop Of Derry
  
• On Dreams, An Imitation Of Petronius
  
• On Gaulstown House
  
• On Gold
  
• On Ink A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On Mr. Pulteney's Being Put Out Of The Council
  
• On Mrs. Biddy Floyd; or, The Receipt To Form A Beauty
  
• On Noisy Tom
  
• On One Of The Windows At Delville
  
• On Paddy's Character Of The "Intelligencer"
  
• On Poetry - A Rhapsody
  
• On Psyche
  
• On Reading Dr. Young's Satire, Called The Universal Passion
  
• On Rover, A Lady's Spaniel: Instructions To A Painter
  
• On Snow A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On Stephen Duck, The Thresher, And Favourite Poet
  
• On The Archbishop Of Cashel, And Bettesworth
  
• On The Arms Of The Town Of Waterford
  
• On The Church's Danger
  
• On The Collar Of Tiger, Mrs. Dingley's Lap-Dog
  
• On The Death Of Dr. Swift
  
• On the Five Senses A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On The Gallows
  
• On The Irish Bishops
  
• On The Irish Club
  
• On The Little House By The Churchyard Of Castlenock
  
• On the Moon A humorous poem by Jonathan Swift and friends
  
• On The Posteriors
  
• On The Union
  
• On the Vowels A humorous poem
  
• On The Words Brother Protestants And Fellow Christians
  
• On Time A humorous poem
  
• On Wood The Ironmonger
  
• Onions Verses Made for Fruit-women
  
• Oranges Verses Made for Fruit-women
  
• Oysters Verses Made for Fruit-women
  
• Panegyric On The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North, A
  
• Parody On A Character Of Dean Smedley
  
• Parody On The Speech Of Dr. Benjamin Pratt
  
• Parson's Case, The
  
• Pastoral Dialogue, A
  
• Paulus: An Epigram
  
• Peace And Dunkirk
  
• Pethox The Great
  
• Pheasant And The Lark - A Fable, The
  
• Phyllis; Or, The Progress Of Love
  
• Place Of The Damned, The
  
• Poem On High Church, A
  
• Poem, Occasioned By The Hangings In The Castle Of Dublin, In Which The Story Of, A
  
• Poetical Epistle To Dr. Sheridan
  
• Power Of Time, The
  
• Probatur Aliter
  
• Problem, "That My Lord Berkeley Stinks When He Is In Love", The
  
• Progress Of Beauty, The
  
• Progress Of Marriage, The
  
• Progress Of Poetry, The
  
• Prologue, A
  
• Prologue To A Play For The Benefit Of The Distressed Weavers
  
• Prometheus On Wood The Patentee's Irish Halfpence
  
• Punch's Petition To The Ladies
  
• Puppet Show, The from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
  
• Puppet-Show, The
  
• Quibbling Elegy On Judge Boat, A
  
• Quiet Life And A Good Name To A Friend Who Married A Shrew, A
  
• Rebus. By Vanessa, A
  
• Riddle, A
  
• Robin And Harry
  
• Run Upon The Bankers, The
  
• Satirical Elegy On The Death Of A Late Famous General, A
  
• Sent By Dr. Delany To Dr. Swift, To Be Admitted To Speak To Him When He Was Deaf
  
• Serious Poem Upon Wood, Brazier, Tinker, Hard-Wareman, Coiner, Founder, Esquire, A
  
• Sid Hamet's Rod
  
• Simile On Our Want Of Silver, And The Only Way To Remedy It, A
  
• Song...Corporations Of City of Dublin Against Wood's Halfpence, An
  
• South-Sea Project, The
  
• Stella's Birthday, 1718
  
• Stella's Birthday, 1720
  
• Stella's Birthday, 1722
  
• Stella's Birthday, 1724
  
• Stella's Birthday, March 13, 2022
  
• Storm: Minerva's Petition, The
  
• Strephon And Chloe
  
• Tale Of A Nettle, A
  
• Tim And The Fables
  
• To A Friend Who Had Been Much Abused In Many Inveterate Libels
  
• To A Lady
  
• To Betty, The Grisette
  
• To Charles Mordaunt, Earl Of Peterborough
  
• To Dr. Delany On The Libels Written Against Him
  
• To His Grace The Archbishop Of Dublin
  
• To Janus, On New Year's Day, 1726
  
• To Lady Carteret
  
• To Lord Harley, On His Marriage
  
• To Love
  
• To Mr. Congreve
  
• To Mr. Delany, Oct. 10, 1718 Nine In The Morning
  
• To Mrs. Houghton Of Bourmont, On Praising Her Husband To Dr. Swift
  
• To my mistress A humorous poem
  
• To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness
  
• To Stella, Who Collected And Transcribed His Poems
  
• To The Citizens
  
• Toland's Invitation To Dismal
  
• Tom And Dick
  
• Town Eclogue, A
  
• Traulus. Part I, A Dialogue Between Tom And Robin
  
• Traulus. Part II
  
• Trifles
  
• Twelve Articles
  
• Upon The Horrid Plot
  
• Upstart, The
  
• Vanbrugh's House
  
• Vanbrugh's House (later version)
  
• Verses Occasioned By Whitshed's Motto On His Coach
  
• Verses On Blenheim
  
• Verses On I Know Not What
  
• Verses On The Revival Of The Order Of The Bath
  
• Verses On The Sudden Drying Up of St. Patrick's Well
  
• Verses On The Upright Judge, Who Condemned The Drapier's Printer
  
• Verses On Two Celebrated Modern Poets
  
• Verses Sent To The Dean On His Birth-Day
  
• Verses Sent To The Dean With An Eagle Quill
  
• Verses Written On A Window, At The Deanery House, St. Patrick's
  
• Vindication Of The Libel, A
  
• Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod, The
  
• Wicked Treasonable Libel, A
  
• Will Wood's Petition To The People Of Ireland
  
• Windsor Prophecy, The
  
• Wood An Insect
  
• Written By Dr. Swift On His Own Deafness
  
• Written In A Lady's Ivory Table-Book
  
• Yahoo's Overthrow, Or, The Kevan Bayl's New Ballad, The
  
• Young Lady's Complaint For The Stay Of The Dean In England, A
  

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