[Illustration] Hester Vanhomrigh (Vanessa) From a Picture in the possession G. Villiers Brinus Esq; THE POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. EDITED BY WILLIAM ERNST BROWNING BARRISTER, INNER TEMPLE AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF LORD CHESTERFIELD" VOL. II LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. 1910 CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II PAGE Cadenus and Vanessa 1 To Love 23 A Rebus by Vanessa 24 The Dean's Answer 25 Stella's Birth-Day 26 Stella's Birth-Day 26 To Stella 28 To Stella 32 Stella to Dr. Swift 35 To Stella 37 On the Great Buried Bottle 37 Epitaph 38 Stella's Birth-Day 38 Stella at Wood-Park 40 A New Year's Gift for Bec 43 Dingley and Brent 44 To Stella 45 Verses by Stella 46 A Receipt to restore Stella's Youth 46 Stella's Birth-Day 48 Bec's Birth-Day 49 On the Collar of Tiger 51 Stella's Birth-Day 51 Death and Daphne 54 Daphne 57 RIDDLES Pethox the Great 59 On a Pen 62 On Gold 63 On the Posteriors 64 On a Horn 65 On a Corkscrew 66 The Gulf of all Human Possessions 67 Louisa to Strephon 70 A Maypole 71 On the Moon 72 On a Circle 73 On Ink 73 On the Five Senses 74 Fontinella to Florinda 75 An Echo 76 On a Shadow in a Glass 77 On Time 78 On the Gallows 78 On the Vowels 79 On Snow 79 On a Cannon 80 On a Pair of Dice 80 On a Candle 80 To Lady Carteret by Delany 82 Answered by Dr. Swift 83 To Lady Carteret 83 Answered by Sheridan 84 A Riddle 84 Answer by Mr. F----r 84 A Letter to Dr. Helsham 85 Probatur aliter 87 POEMS COMPOSED AT MARKET HILL On cutting down the Thorn 89 To Dean Swift 92 Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson's 93 On a very old Glass at Market Hill 94 Answered extempore by Dr. Swift 95 Epitaph 95 My Lady's Lamentation 95 A Pastoral Dialogue 99 The Grand Question debated 101 Drapier's Hill 106 The Dean's Reasons 107 The Revolution at Market Hill 110 Robin and Harry 113 A Panegyric on the Dean 115 Twelve Articles 125 POLITICAL POETRY Parody 127 Jack Frenchman's Lamentation 129 The Garden Plot 132 Sid Hamet's Rod 133 The Famous Speech-Maker 136 Parody on the Recorder's Speech 143 Ballad 144 Atlas; or the Minister of State 147 Lines on Harley's being stabbed 148 An Excellent New Song 148 The Windsor Prophecy 150 Corinna, a Ballad 152 The Fable of Midas 153 Toland's Invitation to Dismal 156 Peace and Dunkirk 157 Imitation of Horace, Epist. I, vii 159 The Author upon Himself 163 The Fagot 166 Imitation of Horace, Sat. VI, ii 167 Horace paraphrased, Odes II, i 171 Dennis' Invitation to Steele 175 In Sickness 180 The Fable of the Bitches 181 To the Earl of Oxford in the Tower 182 On the Church's Danger 183 A Poem on High Church 183 The Story of Phaethon 184 A Tale of a Nettle 186 A Satirical Elegy 187 POEMS CHIEFLY RELATING TO IRISH POLITICS