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Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two

Name: Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two
Author: Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Read by Arthur Krolman · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Cadenus and Vanessa (39:36)
To Love (3:09)
A Rebus by Vanessa and Answer (2:50)
Stella's Birthday (3:48)
To Stella the Transcriber (7:07)
To Stella While Sick (6:16)
Stella's Birthday (5:07)
Stella at Wood Park (4:32)
A New Year's Gift for Bec and Dingley and Brent (2:22)
Stella's Birthday (2:19)
A Receipt to Restore Stella's Youth (3:01)
Stella's Birthday etc. (10:13)
Death and Daphne (4:43)
Daphne (2:26)
Pethox the Great (4:32)
On a Pen (2:25)
On Gold (1:47)
On the Posteriors (2:21)
On a Horn (1:59)
On a Corkscrew (2:03)
The Gulf of All Human Possessions (5:17)
Louisa to Strephon (2:37)
A Maypole and On Moon, Circle, Ink (4:08)
On the Five Senses (1:36)
Fontinella to Florinda (1:35)
On Echo, Glass, Time, Gallows, Vowels, Snow, Cannon, Dice, Candle (10:06)
To Lady Cartaret, Answer etc. (4:32)
On Cutting Down the Thorn (4:31)
Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson's (2:25)
On a Very Old Glass at Market Hill etc. (1:19)
My Lady's Lamentation (7:38)
A Pastoral Dialogue (4:35)
The Grand Question Debated (11:29)
Drapier's Hill (1:23)
The Dean's Reasons (5:17)
The Revolution at Market Hill (5:11)
Robin and Harry (2:48)
A Panegyric on the Dean (16:38)
Twelve Articles (2:09)
Crowe's Address to Her Majesty (2:50)
Jack Frenchman's Lamentation (3:02)
The Garden Plot and Sid Hamet's Rod (5:38)
The Famous Speech-Maker (8:53)
Parody on the Recorder's Speech (2:39)
Ballad (2:57)
Atlas Minister of State and Harley Stabbed (1:48)
An Excellent New Song (3:34)
The Windsor Prophecy (1:52)
Corinna, a Ballad (1:49)
The Fable of Midas (4:13)
Toland's Invitation to Dismal (3:28)
Peace and Dunkirk (2:13)
Imitation of Horace, Epist. I, vii (6:18)
The Author upon Himself (5:02)
The Fagot (2:40)
Imitation of Horace, Sat.VI, ii (5:30)
Horace paraphrased, Odes II, i (5:35)
Dennis' Invitation to Steele (10:22)
In Sickness (1:58)
The Fable of the Bitches (2:47)
To the Earl of Oxford in the Tower (2:08)
On the Church's Danger and On High Church (1:36)
The Story of Phaethon (2:45)
A Tale of a Nettle (3:16)
A Satirical Elegy (1:57)
Parody on Pratt's Speech (4:23)
An Excellent New Song (2:18)
The Run upon the Bankers (3:17)
Upon the Horrid Plot (3:47)
Quibbling Elegy on Judge Boat (3:13)
Verses on Whitshed's Motto (1:38)
Prometheus (3:57)
Verses on the Order of the Bath and Epigram on Wood's Brass Money (1:33)
A Simile (1:53)
Wood an Insect (2:43)
Wood the Ironmonger (2:07)
Wood's Petition (2:12)
A New Song on Wood's Halfpence (4:26)
A Serious Poem (6:59)
An Excellent New Song (4:55)
Verses on the Judge Who Condemned the Drapier's Printer (1:44)
Horace paraphrased, Odes I, xiv (5:19)
Verses on St. Patrick's Well (7:38)
On Reading Dr. Young's Satire (2:43)
The Dog and Thief (1:24)
Mad Mullinix and Timothy (12:09)
Tim and the Fables (1:54)
Tom and Dick (1:48)
Dick, a Maggot (0:59)
Clad All in Brown (1:45)
Dick's Variety (2:00)
Traulus, Part I (4:49)
Traulus, Part II (2:27)
A Fable of the Lion (3:20)
On the Irish Bishops (3:43)
Horace, Odes Iv, ix (4:01)
On Walpole and Pulteney (3:14)
Brother Protestants (3:08)
Bettesworth's Exultation and Epigram to Sergeant Kite (3:20)
The Yahoo's Overthrow (4:27)
On Cashel and Bettesworth, Irish Club, Noisy Tom (3:48)
On Dr. Rundle and Epigram (3:18)
The Legion Club (10:24)
On Printer's to Newgate, Libel Vindication, Apology, Ay and No, Ballad, Wicked Libel (8:24)
Epigrams against Carthy (5:25)
Poetical Epistle to Sheridan (3:23)
The Upstart (1:49)
Waterford and Blenheim (1:24)
An Excellent new Song on the Grand Jury (2:16)
The Archbishop of Dublin (5:13)
To the Citizens (2:27)
Punch's Petition and Epigrams (4:46)
George Rochfort's Verses (1:25)
A Left-Handed Letter and Replies (4:53)
To the Dean of St. Patrick's and Replies (20:39)
Mr. Thomas Sheridan and Replies (5:35)
On Dr. Sheridan's Circular Verses (3:09)
On Dan Jackson's Picture and Replies (14:16)
The Pardon (2:36)
The Last Speech and Dying Words of Daniel Jackson (3:24)
To the Rev. Daniel Jackson (2:59)
Sheridan to Swift and Reply (3:04)
Mary the Cook Maid's Letter (3:29)
A Portrait from the Life (0:57)
On Stealing a Crown when the Dean was asleep (1:47)
Prologue and Epilogue to a Play (2:55)
The Song (1:46)
A New Year's Gift for the Dean of St. Patrick's (3:22)
To Quilca, Country Life and A Faithful Inventory (3:19)
Palinodia (2:33)
Letter to the Dean and Invitation to Dinner (4:23)
On the Five Ladies and Replies (3:41)
Ballad on Ballyspellin and Reply (5:43)
An Epistle to Two Friends etc. (4:57)
A True and Faithful Inventory (1:30)
A New Simile for the Ladies and Answer (12:41)