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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CAREGIVERS Matches Found: 84 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MOTHER, by PAT SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: She listens to your joys and cares Last Line: They call -- and wish her here again. Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort ABORTION, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: All the women cry Last Line: They show each other pictures Subject(s): Caregivers AD ASTRA: 9, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: That answering smile that seems to set at rest Last Line: When the unruly winds are hush'd in sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Caregivers; Peace BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL Poem Text First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness BARKING DOG, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: There is a woman %in a hospital Last Line: The story %of the barking dog Subject(s): Caregivers BECOMING THE PATIENT, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: For years the same dream Last Line: I point out the thin scar Subject(s): Caregivers BLOOD CLOT, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I got sleepy, my right side Last Line: To that damn, calm kitchen Subject(s): Caregivers BODY FLUTE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I go on loving the flesh Last Line: The silver stops of your eyelids Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses CALMING KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be quiet awful woman Last Line: I know I am your sister Subject(s): Caregivers; Sisters CALMING KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be quiet awful woman Last Line: Awful woman, %I know I am your sister Subject(s): Caregivers; Sisters CARE, by JANET NORRIS BANGS Poem Text First Line: Care now lies Last Line: Care, in the corner. Subject(s): Caregivers CHARITY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: When my son %was born Last Line: A light, %a glass %of water Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Caregivers; Charity CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The keepers / walk among galapagos turtles Last Line: In the san diego dusk. Subject(s): Caregivers; Galapagos Islands; Turtles; Zoos; Tortoises CLOUDBURST, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: All the green witches Last Line: Shaking her bright bandage scissors Subject(s): Caregivers COMFORT ONE ANOTHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comfort one another; / for the way is growing dreary Last Line: But the presence of the lord, and for all his people room. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Love; Sympathy; Empathy CONSUMMATION, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: Abundant life is nature's law Last Line: To take you through the gates of heaven. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Parents; Teaching & Teachers; Parenthood; Educators; Professors DESK, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: My father is chopping up the desk he built me when I was a kid to get Last Line: Is getting him pissed off Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Fathers; Parents DETAILS OF FLESH, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: That morning I surprised a nurse Last Line: And restless patients called them Subject(s): Caregivers DOCTOR, 8 P.M., by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: At dinner you speak of the tumor Last Line: We cannot loose, or satiate Subject(s): Caregivers DUET, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: We sing her down on the table, slowly Last Line: That would crack the dome of her fear Subject(s): Caregivers FIRST BREAST, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A man sits on a chair's edge Last Line: But warm. All these details Subject(s): Caregivers FLASHBACK, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Fuck yourself with a bottle Last Line: Asking for it. Begging Subject(s): Caregivers FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I PASSED ON TO MY CHILDREN, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Comes late for dinner Last Line: Stares intently through Subject(s): Caregivers FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I SEE IN THE MIRROR, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A woman who has come to love silence Last Line: Eyebrows. Nose off center Subject(s): Caregivers FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I SWORE MY MOTHER WORE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Small clouds like lace Last Line: I saw her face Subject(s): Caregivers FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I WORE FOR MY MOTHER, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Bright in the way of silk roses Last Line: Just to hear her talking Subject(s): Caregivers FUTURES, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: He wouldn't take off his coat or hat, his aunt charity says, but he Last Line: Nothing %to change or predict Subject(s): Caregivers; Future; Love; Maturity GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism GET WELL CARD DROPPED IN A PARKING GARAGE, by KIMBERLY HORNE Poem Source First Line: You know, I don't believe in prepared Last Line: Beyond even its own intentions Subject(s): Caregivers; Sickness GOOD NURSE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Our kiss is in gratitude Last Line: Freezes the mind Subject(s): Caregivers HEMORRHAGE, 3 A.M., by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A boy walks into the sea Last Line: A crease in the surface of the sea Subject(s): Caregivers HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary HOW I IMAGINE IT, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Ahead of me on the road, my daughter Last Line: The stoplight swings in the wind. It's almost autumn Variant Title(s): This Is How I Imagine I Subject(s): Caregivers I HEAR THE CRIES OF WOMEN, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Women in the clinic waiting room Last Line: Bring another child %into this world Subject(s): Caregivers IL LATTE, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ye fair, for whom the hands of hymen weave Last Line: Unblam'd inebriate at that healthful spring. Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Nature; Parents; Infants; Parenthood IT'S ONLY FAIR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother has had a heap of praise Last Line: I sing a little song to dad! Subject(s): Caregivers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there. Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty MOTHER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: There's a hand so firm and tender Last Line: Is burnt in mother's heart. Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life; Home; Love; Mothers; Relatives MOTHER LOVE, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: I saw a mother working Last Line: Through endless, happy days! Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers MY DEAR MRS GALE-FROM MY LEAVING THE CRADLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The most 'ladle-like' personage under the sun! Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life NIGHT NURSE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Angel, %hold their hands while I hurry Last Line: All these lives flying from us Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses NURSE'S TASK, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: When I pluck the suture Last Line: The one that escapes Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses NURSE, 7 A. M., by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: She squints, eight hours Last Line: Like a newborn, round and lemon Subject(s): Caregivers OLD LADY PATIENT, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I hate %doctors they Last Line: Your hand cook like %water, your name? Subject(s): Caregivers OLD MEN NAME THE PLANETS, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Old men name the planets and their moons Last Line: Will be white and distant as the moon Subject(s): Caregivers ON NOT LOVING YOUR CHLDREN, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Stop loving them at two Last Line: The sea-swell, the undertow Subject(s): Caregivers ON THE IRT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lily in a burdock nosegay Last Line: Swarms fireflies in a jar sealed by aphasia. Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Subways; Childhood ON THE WARDS, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: 7 a.M. And all I can think of is sex Last Line: And guarded by my watch outside their door Subject(s): Caregivers PATIENT IN SURGERY, 7 A. M., by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Dazed by the needle's punch Last Line: Went in before she was ready Subject(s): Caregivers QUEEN'S BREAST, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: She was a queen of spain. Her name beside Last Line: With which spain to a whole world gave her breast! Subject(s): Caregivers; Courts And Courtiers; Mothers RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: How good our every festival appears Last Line: And to receive in knowing how to give. Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants RITUAL BATH, 1955, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Steam-laden air and the summer night's heat Last Line: Rushing to her damask towel Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Caregivers ROADSIDE POEMS: THE CHILD-MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily slumbered noonday bright Last Line: "I did not let him go!" Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise SLOW CODE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Small room. Iron bed. Yellow sheets Last Line: We'll tell her son at least we tried Subject(s): Caregivers SMOKE WE MAKE PICTURES OF, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Wrapping presents, I look up Last Line: At christmas. A dog. A little girl Subject(s): Caregivers SONG (5), by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the twilight slumber falls Last Line: That I may look on her and live. Variant Title(s): Song. Set By Mr. Coleman Subject(s): Caregivers; Love STARING INTO THE POINT WHERE THE TRACKS MERGE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I am staring down the tracks Last Line: Like women's hair into evening Subject(s): Caregivers SUFFERING, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Jean tells me about her heart scan Last Line: Of the open mouth; %then, %silence Subject(s): Caregivers TAKING CARE, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: When I took care of you, I grew as swans Last Line: Going home, it seemed a vast interruption Subject(s): Caregivers; Love; Sickness THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careless lad went through the wood Last Line: Who never looked behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children bear our froward mood Last Line: See, lord,they bear with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood THE GOD ON THE HEARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A god, a god sits on my hearth Last Line: Nor yet forgets his starry birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Home THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would choose to be a door-keeper Last Line: In the house of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Houses; Humility THE MOTHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night he lay within my arm Last Line: To keep him safe from fear and harm! Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Mothers; Infants THE NURSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Such innocent companionship Last Line: Within is only innocence. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Innocence; Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Praise; Childhood; Work; Workers THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE WEEPING BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She kneels by the cradle Last Line: That still thou wilt cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF BANTRY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That judicious young person of bantry Subject(s): Caregivers; Kindness THIS HAPPENED, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The intern and I begin our rounds Last Line: And be the same Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses TO --, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick, how patiently thou sat'st beside my bed Last Line: Forgive, forgive, my -------, the selfishness of man! Subject(s): Caregivers; Debt; Sickness; Illness TO MADAME GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the face, the fairest face, till care Last Line: Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Caregivers; Faces; Love TO THE HUSBAND WHO STANDS AT THE SINK, INTENT ON SHAVING, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: There is a woman in your shower Last Line: Of anger and sorrow not yet of expectation Subject(s): Caregivers TO THE HUSBANDMAN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sown are the golden seeds in the smooth furrow Last Line: New life the furrows are giving. Subject(s): Caregivers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE MOTHER OF THE BURNED CHILDREN, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: When you ask, when your voice Last Line: Tell them wait. %wait here. Wait Subject(s): Caregivers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BABY SONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croonie croonie, baby baby, up and down Last Line: Baby baby, what art thou? Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood TUMOR BOARD, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The woman has lost her vulva Last Line: Banging. 'here and here and here.' Subject(s): Caregivers VISITING MY FATHER IN THE HOSPITAL, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Where the tongue on the palate Last Line: When you leave, take the stairs Subject(s): Caregivers VOCATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For this, for this was I foreseen Last Line: Made me the children's heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Heaven; Childhood; Paradise WHAT MAN MIGHT KILL, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: He lights a cigarette Last Line: Having seen the moon Subject(s): Caregivers WHAT THE NURSE LIKES, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I like looking into patients' ears Last Line: When I turn their way Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses WOMAN WHO LOST HER BREAST TO CANCER AND SAID SHE DIDN'T MIND, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Because she could still reach her arm Last Line: That might suckle the world, and say %mine mine Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Caregivers WORLD OUTSIDE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The blue '86 chevy-side truck is his job corps graduation Last Line: Patient and quiet and loving and... %well, you get the picture Subject(s): Caregivers; Independence; Labor And Laborers; Maturity |
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