Subway-streptococci Tear through the entrails Of Manhattan: the island Shivers with sudden ague, Trembles with intermittent fever; Its epidermis breaks with strange protuberances -- Wen and blister, furuncle and papulai -- (Can it be possible there is need to mention The Proud Flesh?) Who will isolate this devastating "Micro-organism of a genus of bacteria Grouped in long chains and dividing in one plane, Causing erysipelas, etc.," and restore To the embarrassed lady her school-girl-complexion That so intrigued an old roue named Hendrik Hudson At their first rendezvous, (Chaperoned by eighteen Old Salts!) On that long-gone September afternoon? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO THE BIRDS by ARISTOPHANES EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 9. LOVE A TICKLISH GAME by PHILIP AYRES LILIES: 8 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) LOVE'S BREATH by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE PRISONER by EMILY JANE BRONTE PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: GERARD DE MANDEVILLE by ROBERT BROWNING |