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-The Power of Time
1730
If neither brass nor marble can withstand
The mortal force of Time's destructive hand;
If mountains sink to vales, if cities die,
And lessening rivers mourn their fountains dry;
When my old cassock (said a Welsh divine)
Is out at elbows, why should I repine?
- Preface
- -Ode to Doctor William Sancroft
- -Ode to Sir William Temple
- -Ode to King William
- -Ode to The Athenian Society
- -To Mr. Congreve
- -Sir William Temple
- -Written in a Lady's Ivory Table Book
- -Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition
- -A Ballad on the game of Traffic
- -A Ballad to the tune of the Cutpurse
- -The Discovery
- -The Problem
- -The Description of a Salamander
- -To Charles Mordaunt
- -On the Union
- -On Mrs. Biddy Floyd
- -Apollo Outwitted
- -Answer to Lines from May Fair
- -Vanbrugh's House
- -Baucis and Philemon
- -The History of Vanbrugh's House
- -A Grub Street Elegy
- -The Epitaph
- -A Description of the Morning
- -A Description of a City Shower
- -On the Little House
- -A Town Eclogue
- -A Conference
- -To Lord Harley
- -Phyllis
- -Horace, Book IV, Ode ix
- -To Mr. Delany
- -An Elegy
- -To Mrs. Houghton
- -Verses written on a Window
- -Apollo to the Dean
- -News from Parnassus
- -Apollo's Edict
- -The Description of an Irish Feast
- -The Progress of Beauty
- -The Progress of Marriage
- -The Progress of Poetry
- -The South Sea Project
- -Fabula Canis et Umbrae
- -A Prologue
- -Epilogue
- -Prologue
- -On Gaulstown House
- -Dr. Delany's Villa
- -On one of the Windows at Delville
- -Carberiae Rupes
- -Carbery Rocks
- -Copy of the Birthday Verses on Mr. Ford
- -On Dreams
- -Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift
- -A Quiet Life and a Good Name
- -Advice
- -A Pastoral Dialogue
- -Desire and Possession
- -On Censure
- -The Furniture of a Woman's Mind
- -Clever Tom Clinch
- -Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope
- -A Love Poem
- -Bouts Rimez
- -Helter Skelter
- -The Puppet Show
- -The Journal of a Modern Lady
- -The Logicians Refuted
- -The Elephant; or the Parliament Man
- -Paulus; an Epigram
- -A Dialogue
- -On burning a dull Poem
- -An excellent new Ballad
- -On Stephen Duck
- -The Lady's Dressing Room
- -The Power of Time
- -Cassinus and Peter
- -A Beautiful young Nymph
- -Strephon and Chloe
- -Apollo; or a Problem solved
- -The Place of the Damned
- -The Day of Judgment
- -Judas
- -An Epistle to Mr. Gay
- -To a Lady
- -Richmond Hermitage
- -To Swift on his Birthday
- -Verses sent to the Dean with an Eagle quill
- -An Invitation
- -The Beasts' Confession
- -The Parson's Case
- -The hardship upon the Ladies
- -A Love Song
- -The Storm: Minerva's Petition
- -Ode on Science
- -A Young Lady's Complaint
- -On the Death of Dr. Swift
- -On Poetry: a Rhapsody
- -Verses sent to the Dean
- -Epigram by Mr. Bowyer
- -On Psyche
- -The Dean and Duke
- -Written by Swift on his own Deafness
- -The Dean's manner of living
- -Epigram by Mr. Bowyer
- -Verses made for Fruit Women
- -On Rover: A Lady's Spaniel
- -Epigrams on Windows
- -To Janus
- -A Motto for Mr. Jason Hasard
- -To a Friend
- -Catullus de Lesbia
- -On a Curate's complaint of hard duty
- -To Betty: the Grisette
- -Epigram from the French
- -Epigram
- -Verses on two modern Poets
- -Epitaph on General Gorges
- -Verses on I know not what
- -Dr. Swift to Himself
- -An Answer to a Friend's question
- -Epitaph on a marble tablet
- -Epitaph on Frederick
- -Verses written during Lord Carteret's Administration of Ireland
- -On Paddy's Character
- -An Epistle to Lord Carteret
- -An Epistle upon an Epistle
- -A Libel
- -To Dr. Delany
- -Directions for a Birthday Song
- -The Pheasant and the Lark
- -Dean Smedley's Petition
- -Parody on a character of Dean Smedley
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