Title: A Modest Proposal        For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or cou...

Illustrious prince, we're come before ye, Who, more than in our founders, glory To be by you protected; Deign to descend and give...

APPLES Come buy my fine wares, Plums, apples, and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have an...

TO DR. SWIFT ON HIS BIRTH-DAY[1] While I the godlike men of old, In admiration wrapt, behold; Revered antiquity explore, And turn ...

TO THE REVEREND DR. SWIFT WITH A PRESENT OF A PAPER-BOOK, FINELY BOUND, ON HIS BIRTH-DAY, NOV. 30, 1732.[1] BY JOHN, EARL OF O...

WHO DESIRED THE AUTHOR TO WRITE SOME VERSES UPON HER IN THE HEROIC STYLE After venting all my spite, Tell me, what have I to w...

Stella this day is thirty-four, (We shan't dispute a year or more:) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and year...

In ancient times, as bards indite, (If clerks have conn'd the records right.) A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway His sub...

Logicians have but ill defined As rational, the human kind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. Wise Aris...

A set of phrases learn'd by rote; A passion for a scarlet coat; When at a play, to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason ...

PREFACE I have been long of opinion, that there is not a more general and greater mistake, or of worse consequences through the ...

Of Chloe all the town has rung, By ev'ry size of poets sung: So beautiful a nymph appears But once in twenty thousand years; By Nature...

RIDDLES BY DR. SWIFT AND HIS FRIENDS. WRITTEN IN OR ABOUT THE YEAR 1724  The following notice is subjoined to some of these riddle...

Parody ON THE RECORDER OF BLESSINGTON'S ADDRESS TO QUEEN ANNE  Mr. William Crowe, Recorder of Blessington's Address to her Majes...

To Love [1]  In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee! So weak thou art, that fools thy powe...

ON CUTTING DOWN THE THORN AT MARKET-HILL.[1]1727  At Market-Hill, as well appears By chronicle of ancient date, There stood for m...

Occasioned by reading the following maxim in Rochefoucauld, "Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours q...

[Note: Mrs. Sican, a very ingenious lady, mother to the author of the "Verses" with Pine's Horace; and a favourite wit...

All human race would fain be wits, And millions miss for one that hits. Young's universal passion, pride,[1] Was never known to spread...

O, heavenly born! in deepest dells If fairest science ever dwells Beneath the mossy cave; Indulge the verdure of the woods, Wi...