"A Description of a City Shower" is a 1710 poem by Anglo-Irish poet Jonathan Swift. First appearing in the Tatler magazine in October of that same year, the poem was considered his best poem. Swift agreed: "They think 'tis the best thing I ever wrote, and I think so too". Bonamy Dobrée found it "emancipatory, defiantly anti-poetic... describing nothing that the common run of poets would seize on."