345
To the Rev. Daniel Jackson 347
Sheridan to Swift 349
Sheridan to Swift 350
Swift to Sheridan 350
Mary the Cook Maid’s Letter 351
A Portrait from the Life 352
On Stealing a Crown when the Dean was asleep 353
The Dean’s Answer 353
A Prologue to a Play 354
The Epilogue 355
The Song 355
A New Year’s Gift for the Dean of St. Patrick’s 356
To Quilca 358
The Blessings of a Country Life 359
The Plagues of a Country Life 359
A Faithful Inventory 359
Palinodia 361
A Letter to the Dean 362
An Invitation to Dinner 364
On the Five Ladies at Sot’s Hole 365
The Five Ladies’ Answer to the Beau 367
The Beau’s Reply 368
Dr. Sheridan’s Ballad on Ballyspellin 368
Answer by Dr. Swift 371
An Epistle to two Friends 373
To Dr. Sheridan 374
Dr. Helsham’s Answer 374
A True and Faithful Inventory 376
A New Simile for the Ladies 377
An Answer to a Scandalous Poem 381
Peg Radcliffe the Hostess’s Invitation 386
Verses by Sheridan 387

VERSES ADDRESSED TO SWIFT AND TO HIS MEMORY

To Dr. Swift on his Birth-Day 390
On Dr. Swift 390
To the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s,
   a Birth-Day Poem, Nov. 30, 1736 391
Epigrams occasioned by Dr. Swift’s intended Hospital
   for Idiots and Lunatics 393
On the Dean of St. Patrick’s Birth-Day 394
An Epistle to Robert Nugent, Esq. 396
On the Drapier, by Dr. Dunkin 399
Epitaph proposed for Dr. Swift 400
To the Memory of Dr. Swift 401
A Schoolboy’s Theme 403
Verses on the Battle of the Books 404
On Dr. Swift’s leaving his Estate to Idiots 404
On several Petty Pieces lately published against Dean Swift 405
On Faulkner’s Edition of Swift 405
Epigram on Lord Orrery’s Remarks 406
To Dr. Delany, on his Book entitled “Observations
   on Lord Orrery’s Remarks” 406
Epigram on Faulkner 407
An Inscription 407
An Epigram occasioned by the above 407
Index 409

POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT

POEMS ADDRESSED TO VANESSA AND STELLA

Cadenus and Vanessa[1]
1713

The shepherds and the nymphs were seen
Pleading before the Cyprian queen. 
The counsel for the fair began,
Accusing the false creature Man. 
The brief with weighty crimes was charged
On which the pleader much enlarged;
That Cupid now has lost his art,
Or blunts the point of every dart;—­
His altar now no longer smokes,
His mother’s aid no youth invokes: 
This tempts freethinkers to refine,
And bring in doubt their powers divine;
Now love is dwindled to intrigue,
And marriage grown a money league;
Which crimes aforesaid (with her leave)
Were (as he humbly did conceive)
Against our sovereign lady’s peace,
Against the statute in that case,