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Born in November 30, 1667 / Died in October 19, 1745 / Ireland / English

Poems by Jonathan Swift

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Parody On The Recorder’s Speech To His Grace The Duke Of Ormond, 4th July, 1711

...   Thus ended the speech, but what heart would not pity ...

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Probatur Aliter

... [22] A long-ear'd beast, a thing that force must drive in, ...

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On Time

... All-devouring, all-destroying, ...

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Market Women’s Cries

...   Come, eat them with pure fresh butter and mustard,&emsp ...

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Dingley And Brent

... Comes Dingley, and asks you, what was it ...

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Stella’s Birth-Day.1719-20

...   Then, who can think we'll quit the place, ...

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On A Very Old Glass At Market-Hill

...   Though none can tell which of us first shall die ...

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On Ink

... Let lawyers bawl and strain their throats: ...

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Lines Written Extempore On Mr. Harley’s Being Stabbed, And Addressed To His Physician, 1710-11

... Think what you save, or what you kill ...

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To Lady Carteret

... With cooling gales like zephyrs fraught ...

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Elegy On Partridge

...   Whose wideness kept their toes from corns, ...

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Sid Hamet’s Rod

... Gave a third part, to save the other two ...

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On A Pen

... And then, with heart more hard than stone, ...

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Robin And Harry

...   Grave Harry, when the poor are pressing ...

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To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair

...   Stools, Tables, Chairs, and Bed-steds broke: ...