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How the Doughty Duke of Albany

Colin Clout

Why Come ye not to Court

The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis

How the First Hielandman of God

Of the Courtier's Life, Written to John Poyntz

On Lieutenant Shift

Virgidemiae

Satyrus Peregrinans

Hudibras

The Rebel Scot

Juvenal's Tenth Satire Translated

The Character from Holland

The Last Instructions to a Painter

The Litany

On Tobacco

The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants

The Spanish Friar

On Jacob Tonson, his Publisher

Absalom and Achitophel

Mac Flecknoe

The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel

The Hind and the Panther: The Third Part

Cymon and Iphigenia

Juvenal's Sixth Satire

On Mr Edward Howard, upon his British Princes. To Nysus

The Happy Pair

Plain Dealing's Downfall

Tunbridge Wells

Impromptu on Charles II

A Satire on Charles II

A Satire against Mankind

The Disabled Debaunchee

Upon Nothing

The Royal Angler

As Concerning Man

A Satire Addressed to a Friend

An Acrostic on Wharton

The True-born Englishman

Reformation of Manners

More Reformation

The Dispensary

An Epitaph

The Chameleon

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General

A Description of a City Shower

Phyllis: or, the Progress of Love

Verses Occasioned by the Sudden Drying up of St. Patrick's Well

On the Irish Club

On Poetry: A Rhapsody

The Place of the Damned

The Day of Judgement

Colonel Chartres

A Last Will and Testament

An Inventory of the Furniture of a Collegian's Chamber. Love of Fame, The Universal Passion

Epistles to Mr Pope

To my ingenious and worthy friend William Lowndes, Esq

Brent: A Poem to Thomas Palmer Esq

The Vicar of Bray

The Poet's Prayer

Namby-Pamby

The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer

The Rape of the Lock

An Essay on Criticism

An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women

Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington

The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated

The Second Satire of the First Book of Horace

Epilogue to the Satires

The Dunciad

The Bastard

The Progress of a Divine

The Authors of the Town

The Modern Fine Gentleman

An Epistle to Lord Lovelace

The Modern Fine Lady

Dr Johnson

London

The Vanity of Human Wishes. A Short Song of Congratulation

To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham

A Charge to the Poets

Epilogue to 'The Sister'

The Deserted Village

Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce

Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools

The Prophecy of Famine

The Author

The Ghost

Night, An Epistle to Robert Lloyd

The Times

The Duelist

The Dedication

A Familiar Epistle to J.B. Esq

The Methodist

The Apple Dumplings and a King

The Borough

To the Marquis of Graham on his Marriage

Orator Prigg

The Little Vagabond

Holy Willie's Prayer

A Dedication to G H Esq

The Holy Fair

The Mutual Congratulations of the Poets Anna Seward and Hayley

The Devil's Thoughts

The Georges

Bourbons

A Case at Sessions

Idle Words

The Heart's Abysses

The Scribblers

A Foreign Ruler. A Quarrelsome Bishop

To Sir Hudson Lowe

Fum and Hum, the Two Birds of Royalty

The Fudge Family in Paris

Rhymes on the Road

Copy of an Intercepted Despatch

A Pastoral Ballad

The Cherries

Tory Pledges

Scene from a Play, acted at Oxford, called 'Matriculation'

Drone v. Worker

The Splendid Village

Rich and Poor

Saint and Sinner

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

The Age of Bronze

The Waltz

The Vision of Judgement

Beppo: A Venetian Story

Don Juan

Peter Bell, the Third

The Mask of Anarchy

Our Village-by a Villager

The Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge

A Radical war Song

Stanzas to the Speaker Asleep

The Chaunt of the Brazen Head

Royal Education

The Speculators

Damages, Two Hundred Pounds. The Fine Old English Gentleman

A Fable for Critics

Amours de Voyage

Spectator ab Extra

The Latest Decalogue

Poeta Fit, non Nascitur

The Righteous Man

A Psalm of Montreal

Anglicized Utopia

Some can Gaze, and not be Sick

The Laws of God, the Laws of Man

The Gods of the Copybook Headings 1919

The Hyaenas

The Old Men 1922

Judge Somers

Carl Hamblin

Editor Whedon

Miniver Cheevy

The Justice of the Peace

Lord Lundy

On a General Election

Epitaph on the Favourite Dog of a Politician

Epitaph on the Politician himself

Another on the Same

Lines to a Don

To Dives

A Man said to the Universe

Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain

A Luncheon

Songs of Education

Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode. If So the Man You Are

How Beastly the Bourgeois Is

When Wilt Thou Teach the People?

Reflection and Advice

L'Homme Moyen Sensuel

Lamentations

They

Philomela

Fisbo

in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt

i sing of Olaf glad and big

Queen Mother to New Queen

Tilth

The Laureate

1805

The Handmaid of Religion

The Contemporary Muse

The Earnest Liberal's Lament

A Fragment

A Veld Eclogue: The Pioneers

A Good Resolution

Georgian Spring

The Wayzgoose

Lord Barrenstock

Office Party

How to Start a War

The Day After Sunday

Spectator's Guide to Contemporary Art

Speaking of Television: Robin Hood

Daniel at Breakfast

How to Get On in Society

Huxley Hall

In Westminster Abbey

A Happy New Year. The Unknown Citizen

Letter to Lord Byron

The Truisms

Bagpipe Music

Xmas for the Boys

Since Then

Apocalypse

Fiction and the Reading Public

The Last War

Fifteen Million Plastic Bags

Quite Apart from the Holy Ghost

God Bless America

Poem against Catholics

To Pete Atkin: A Letter from Paris