Jonathan Swift, "Description of a City Shower," first published in The Tatler, October 17, 1710

        You can read the poem in the context of the magazine issue in which it first appeared in the Goucher Library's Rare Book Collection.

        In the following year, the poem was reprinted in this collection of verse, which included some work by the young Alexander Pope:

ESTC System No.	006037909
ESTC Citation No.	N44669
Author - personal	Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Collective title	Miscellanies
Title	Miscellanies in prose and verse.
Publisher/year	London : printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall, MDCCXI. [1711]
Physical descr.	[14],91,[1],95-416p. ;  8⁰.
General note	Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift.
	First edition, second state; some large paper copies were issued (Teerink-Scouten).
	Ornament on the title page is one used by William Bowyer (K.I.D. Maslen, The Bowyer ornament stock, Oxford Bib. Soc., 1973, no. 118).
Uncontrolled note	Sigs.: A7 B-F8 G1-5 A8 G8 H-Dd8. Measurements wanted to distinguish from large paper issue; O copy has gutter 2 cms and height 22.5 cms DFOREPLY DMS above sigs lack G6. Does DFo also lack? If G6 present, is pagination correct? DFONOTE jre: DFo copy with sigs: A⁸(-A8) B-F⁸ G⁸(-G7,8+chi1(=A8?)) H-2D⁸.; chi1 bears press-figure ’I’ on verso (only one in book)