I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

Essayist, novelist, priest and satirist                          

Selected Works:

Essays, tracts, pamphlets, periodicals:

A Meditation upon a Broomstick - 1703–1710: Full text: munseys.com
A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind - 1707–1711
The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers - 1708–1709: Full text: U of Adelaide
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity - 1708–1711: Full text: U of Adelaide
The Intelligencer - with Thomas Sheridan - 1710-????: Text: Project Gutenberg
The Examiner - 1710: Texts: Ourcivilisation.com, Project Gutenberg
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue - 1712: Full texts: Jack Lynch, U of Virginia
On the Conduct of the Allies - 1713
Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation - 1713: Full text: Bartleby.com
A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders - 1720
A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet - 1721: Full text: Bartleby.com
Drapier's Letters - 1724, 1725: Full text: Project Gutenberg
Bon Mots de Stella - 1726: a curiously irrelevant appendix to Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal, perhaps the most notable satire in English, suggesting that the Irish should engage in cannibalism. - Written in 1729
An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen: Full text: JaffeBros
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding: Full text: Bartleby.com

Poems:

Ode to the Athenian Society, Swift's first publication, printed in The Athenian Mercury in the supplement of Feb 14, 1691.
Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Texts at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two
Baucis and Philemon - 1706–1709: Full text: Blackmask
A Description of the Morning - 1709: Full annotated text: U of Toronto; Another text: U of Virginia
A Description of a City Shower - 1710: Full text: U of Virginia
Cadenus and Vanessa - 1713: Full text: Blackmask
Phillis, or, the Progress of Love - 1719: Full text: theotherpages.org

Stella's birthday poems:
1719. Full annotated text: U of Toronto
1720. Full text: U of Virginia
1727. Full text: U of Toronto
The Progress of Beauty - 1719–1720: Full text: OurCivilisation.com
The Progress of Poetry - 1720: Full text: theotherpages.org
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General - 1722: Full text: U of Toronto
To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair - 1725: Full text: U of Toronto
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - 1726: Full text: U of Toronto
The Furniture of a Woman's Mind - 1727
On a Very Old Glass - 1728: Full text: Gosford.co.uk
A Pastoral Dialogue - 1729: Full text: Gosford.co.uk
The Grand Question debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt House - 1729: Full text: Gosford.co.uk
On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet - 1730: Full text: U of Toronto
Death and Daphne - 1730: Full text: OurCivilisation.com
The Place of the Damn'd - 1731: Full text
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed - 1731: Full annotated text: Jack Lynch; Another text: U of Virginia
Strephon and Chloe - 1731: Full annotated text: Jack Lynch; Another text: U of Virginia
Helter Skelter - 1731: Full text: OurCivilisation.com
Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy - 1731: Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
The Day of Judgment - 1731: Full text
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. - 1731–1732: Full annotated texts: Jack Lynch, U of Toronto; Non-annotated text:: U of Virginia
An Epistle To A Lady - 1732: Full text: OurCivilisation.com
The Beasts' Confession to the Priest - 1732: Full annotated text: U of Toronto
The Lady's Dressing Room - 1732: Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
On Poetry: A Rhapsody - 1733
The Puppet Show Full text: Worldwideschool.org
The Logicians Refuted Full text: Worldwideschool.org

Correspondence, personal writings:

When I Come to Be Old – Swift's resolutions. - 1699: Full text: JaffeBros
The Journal to Stella - 1710–1713: Full text - presented as daily entries: 
Extracts: OurCivilisation.com;

Letters:
Selected Letters: JaffeBros
To Oxford and Pope: OurCivilisation.com

'The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D'. Edited by David Woolley. In four volumes, plus index volume. Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1999-c2007

Sermons, prayers:

Three Sermons and Three Prayers. Full text: U of Adelaide, Project Gutenberg
Three Sermons: I. on mutual subjection. II. on conscience. III. on the trinity. Text: Project Gutenberg
Writings on Religion and the Church. Text at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two
The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727. Full text: Worldwideschool.org
The Second Prayer Was Written Nov. 6, 1727. Full text: Worldwideschool.org

Novels:

Gullivers Travels -  Officially,  "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several ships - 1726, amended in 1735
A Modest Proposal
A Journal to Stella, 
Drapier's Letters
The Battle of the Books
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity 
A Tale of a Tub.

Miscellany:

Directions to Servants - 1731:: Extracts: OurCivilisation.com
A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation - 1738
Thoughts on Various Subjects. Full text: U of Adelaide
Historical Writings: Project Gutenberg
Swift Quotations: JaffeBros – many choice, well-documented Swift quotations here
Swift quotes at Bartleby: Bartleby.com – 59 quotations, with notes.                          

Mother  Abigail Erick
Father Jonathan Swift, two children.                          

Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.