The Works of John Gay


Wine, a Poem  (pub. anon., 1708)
Complete - Google Books


The Present State of Wit, in a Letter to a Friend in the Country  (1711)
Complete - Google Books
Complete - Project Gutenberg


The Mohocks: A Tragi-Comical Farce  (Unacted; pub. 1712)
[ Prologue ]
[ Epilogue ]


Rural Sports: a Poem, inscribed to Mr. Pope  (1713)
Complete - Google Books


The Wife of Bath: A Comedy  (1713; rev. ed. 1730)
Complete (modernized, .pdf) - York University, Canada
[ Excerpts - Google Books


A Letter to a Lady: Occasion'd by the Arrival
of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales
 (1714)

Complete - Google Books


The Fan: A Poem  (1714)
Complete - Google Books


The Shepherd's Week: in Six Pastorals  (1714)
Complete - Google Books
[ Excerpt ] - UToronto


The What d'ye Call It: a Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce  (1715)
[ Prologue ]
[ Epilogue ]


Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London  (1716)
Complete - Google Books
Complete - UToronto


Translations for Garth's edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses  (1717)
Complete - Google Books


Three Hours After Marriage: A Comedy  (1717)
[With Pope and Arbuthnot]
[ Prologue ]
[ Epilogue ]


Daphnis and Chloe  (1720)
Complete - Google Books


Dione  (1720)
Complete - Google Books
[ Prologue ]


Poems on Several Occasions  (1720)
[ Eclogue: The Birth of the Squire - Google Books
[ Sweet William's Farewell to Black-ey'd Susan: A Ballad ] - UToronto
[ An Elegy on a Lap-dog ] - UToronto


Two Epistles  (1720)
To the Right Honourable Earl of Burlington.
To a Lady.


A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow  (1721)
Complete - Google Books


An Epistle to her Grace Henrietta Duchess of Marlborough  (1722)
Complete - Google Books


The Captives: A Tragedy  (1724)
[ Prologue ]
[ Epilogue ]


Newgate's Garland, Being a New Ballad  (1725)
[aka Blueskin's Ballad]
Complete - Google Books


To a Lady on her Passion for Old China  (1725)
Complete - Google Books


Fables  (1727; 2nd part 1738)
Complete  (1884 Dobson, ed.) - Google Books
Complete  (1879 Riverside) - Google Books
[ Volume 1 ] - Kalliope
[ Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends ] - UToronto
[ The Man and the Flea ] - Poetry Archive


The Beggar's Opera  (1728)
Complete - Google Books
Complete - Renascence Editions
[ Excerpt ] - UToronto
[ He that tastes Woman ] - Poetry Archive
[ If lawyer's hand is fee'd ] - Poetry Archive
[ If the heart of a man ] - Poetry Archive


Polly: An Opera, being the second part of The Beggar's Opera  (1729)
[ Songs from 'Polly' ] - Google Books


Acis and Galatea: an English Pastoral Opera  (1732)
[Music by Händel]
Complete - Google Books
Complete - Stanford U.


Achilles: An Opera  (1733)
[ Songs from 'Achilles' ] - Google Books


Gay's Chair: poems never before printed  (1820)
[ Poems from 'Gay's Chair' ] - Google Books



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