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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DOCTORS Matches Found: 146 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CENTO MADE BY WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throned in the sun's descending car Last Line: Favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.] Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Beattie, James (1735-1803); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Doctors A DOCTOR'S CENTURY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A doctor's century dead and gone! Last Line: And to the past a glad good-night. Subject(s): Healing; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Cures; Doctors A PROGNOSTICK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As many lawes and lawyers do expresse Last Line: Store of diseases, where physitians flow. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors A SENTIMENT (2), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A triple health to friendship, science, art Last Line: And soothes the pang no anodyne may calm! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too. Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors BESSIE BROWN, M.D, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas april when she came to town Last Line: Unless -- I wed the doctor! Subject(s): Physicians; Women; Doctors COMPLAINT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They call me and I go Last Line: With compassion. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors COMPLAINT OF THE LAD WITH HEART-DISEASE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heart-disease Last Line: Mamma, are you calling? Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Physicians; Doctors COUNTRY DOCTOR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS Poem Text First Line: Today, in that old junk-pile down the hill Last Line: "how could you guess -- you never rode in one!" Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Physicians; Doctors DA LEETLA DOCTOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: W'en I am beeg, says he Last Line: "w'en I am beeg,"" says he." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK; A TRUE STORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some books are lies frae end to end Last Line: And sae did death. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors DEATH BY AESTHETICS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover Subject(s): Physicians; Examinations; Women Patients; Doctors DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a man of gingerbread that you should mould me to your liking? Last Line: The curtain falls. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Graves; Love; Physicians; Sleep; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Doctors DIET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wholsome diet can re-cure a man Last Line: What need of physick, or physitian? Subject(s): Food & Eating; Health; Physicians; Doctors DIRGE FOR THE LATE JAMES CURRIE, M.D., OF LIVERPOOL, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed on the night-wind's wing, my sighs Last Line: The grave of parted worth! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Currie, James (1756-1805); Physicians; Doctors DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Last Line: He's jes' a great, big, brainy man -- that's where the trouble lays! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors DOCTOR -., by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rabbi told me: on the day allowed Last Line: I tell it, as the rabbi told it me. Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Hell; Physicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Doctors DOCTOR BENSERADE, by E. ARNAL Poem Text First Line: A youth, to lose his treasured love afraid Last Line: And but one single patient yet have had.' Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors DOCTOR EMILY, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her room, bare of all beauty Last Line: "I am coming, little one." Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors DOCTOR FEEL-GOOD, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He's a laughing buddha Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Physicians; Physicians; Doctors; Doctors DOCTOR FROLIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres Last Line: Of craniological gall. Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With wondrous skill Last Line: The sufferer that takes it. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors DOCTOR [OR DOCTUER] HILAIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: A stranger might say if he see heem drink till he almos' fall Last Line: It's very bad case is waitin', doctor hilaire's de man. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors DOCTOR'S DUTY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I know in all my lifetime Last Line: And -- deity! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors DOCTORS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night I lie awake Last Line: Conferring at my side. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness DOCTORS DIFFER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When willis of ephraim heard rochester preach Last Line: We preach very sadly, if he preaches well. Subject(s): Physicians; Prayer; Sermons; Doctors DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands Last Line: This story to the coroner. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology DR. JONSON'S PICTURE COW, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got a sliver in my hand Last Line: Picture cows could kick at you. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Cows; Physicians; Doctors EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER), by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors ELEGIAC SONNET: 65. TO DR. PARRY OF BATH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In happier hours, ere yet so keenly blew Last Line: The unfading amaranth of gratitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Parry, Caleb Hillier (1755-1822); Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness ELEGY IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE'S ... INSCRIPTIONS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the lone pile with ivy overspread Last Line: That riches cannot pay for love or truth. Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Doctors EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM: THE STABILITY OF SCIENCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms Last Line: When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these? Subject(s): Physicians; Science; Doctors; Scientists FORTUNATUS NIMIUM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lain in the sun Last Line: Nor ever shall be. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1. A LITTLE BREATH I'LL BORROW, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave prolonging thy distress! Last Line: I die alone through her despite. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors HANDS: THE DOCTOR, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: His hands / do not till earth Last Line: To health. Subject(s): Hands; Physicians; Doctors HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore Last Line: And ease him of his pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors HER FINAL SHOW, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said it was a better way to die Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Gays & Lesbians; Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors HYMN TO SCIENCE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Science! Thou fair effusive ray Last Line: And sit in peace with thee. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 1.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. John, whose love indulg'd my labours past Last Line: A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god. Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians; St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Doctors; Viscount Bolingbroke IN AMOREM MEDICUM; EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For cares whilst love prepares the remedies Last Line: The main disease in the physician lies. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 11. CLINICAL, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist! - / through the corridor's echoes Last Line: Brilliantly hideous with red. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 15. 'THE CHIEF', by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His brow spreads large and placid, and his eye Last Line: As once the son of zeus with death and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 16. HOUSE-SURGEON, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exceeding tall, but built so well his height Last Line: And cultivate his mild philistinism. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Surgery; Doctors IN MEMORY OF JOHN AND ROBERT WARE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No mystic charm, no mortal art Last Line: Its broken chain. Subject(s): Physicians; Ware, John (1795-1864); Ware, Robert; Doctors IN THE HOSPITAL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grimed with misery, want, and sin Last Line: He knew, at last what life had meant. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange. Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ... Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology KNOW THYSELF, by WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT Poem Text First Line: What am I? How produc'd? And for what end? Last Line: Repair by meekness what you lost by pride. Subject(s): Mankind; Physicians; Self; Human Race; Doctors MARSHAL SAXE AND HIS PHYSICIAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fever's a most audacious varlet Last Line: "pull up the glasses!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Fear; Fever; Physicians; War; Doctors MASTER HANDS; TO DOCTOR ST. GEORGE FECHTIG, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Strong, magic hands Last Line: The tenderness of prayer. Subject(s): Hands; Physicians; Prayer; Doctors MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight. Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die. Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism MINERVA MEDICA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good chairman, brothers, friends, and guests Last Line: Love, honor, and obedience, troops of friends. Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors NICHARCHUS UPON PHIDON HIS DOCTOR, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phidon neither purged me, nor touched me Last Line: But I remembered the name of his fever medicine and died. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors ON A PHYSICIAN, by NICARCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten of alexis' patients once were ill Last Line: One night, one grave, one hades for the ten! Alternate Author Name(s): Nicarchos Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Condemned to hope's delusive mine, / as we toil from day to day Last Line: And freed his soul the nearest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): Lines On The Death Of Mr. Levett;dr. Levett;the Quiet Life Subject(s): Bible; Death; Levet, Robert; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Doctors; Theology ON THE SUBJECT OF DOCTORS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see doctors cough Subject(s): Physicians; Wit & Humor; Doctors ONE OF THE SIGNERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O storied vale of merrimac Last Line: These sculptured lips shall not be dumb! Subject(s): Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795); Physicians; Statues; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Doctors OULD DOCTOR MACK, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye may tramp the world over from delhi to dover Last Line: Hip, hip, hooray! Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness OUR FAMILY DOCTOR, by FLO HAMPTON SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Our fambly doctor tells kids things Last Line: He's cop'ing from the jesus man. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the fixed and settled rules Last Line: But, to my comfort, I'm prepared. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Physicians; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Doctors PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE, by AUGUSTUS P. CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In all complaints that show a threat'ning form Last Line: Where joy and mirth have ever reigned forsooth? Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors PHYSITIANS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Physitians fight not against men; but these Last Line: Combate for men, by conquering the disease. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors PICTURE OF A PHYSICIAN, by LEONTIUS Poem Text First Line: Old was iamblichus, the whole world's friend Last Line: All fees, with modest hand, he would refuse. Alternate Author Name(s): Leontios Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors PINDARIC ODE: TO DR. SCARBOROUGH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, alas! Has our mad nation been Last Line: When all's done, life is an incurable disease. Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors PIPE DREAMS: 4, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Protect me, wah! I see three fearful fiends Last Line: Your young appendix, also all your wealth? Subject(s): Dreams; Physicians; Nightmares; Doctors PIPE DREAMS: 5, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Now doc, come off! You with the bucksaw. What Last Line: Except a smoke to loosen up my jaws! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors PITCH O' PINE SONNETSL 3. CLEM'S FOOL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clem told the 'squire that ben was growing strong Last Line: Sore stabbed the 'squire, -- 'twas clem the burden bore. Subject(s): Children; Geese; Hens; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors PLAYING DOCTOR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I'll be a doctor-man Last Line: By bringing aunty from the hall. Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Play; Childhood; Doctors POEM: AT CENTENNIAL DINNER OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three paths there be where learning's favored sons Last Line: Ye served your brothers; ye have served your lord! Subject(s): Learning; Physicians; Doctors POEM: READ AT THE DINNER GIVEN BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I deserved your kindness? Nay, my friends Last Line: But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 1, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doctors are a frightful race Last Line: I mean to put them in their place. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 2. THEIR AVARICE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor lives by chicken pox, / by measles, and by mumps Last Line: "the man must live!"" but why?" Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 3. THEIR IGNORANCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then besides. It makes me boil Last Line: With thwarted spite send him your bill. Subject(s): Ignorance; Physicians; Dullness; Stupdity; Doctors POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 4. THEIR CURIOSITY AS COMPARED WITH THAT ...., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest fellows in the world, / excepting engine-drivers Last Line: Beyond the gates of hercules. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors RABELAIS AND THE LAMPREYS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the eccentric rabelais was physician Last Line: "but one of most delicious flavour!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): The Doctor And The Lampreys Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lampreys; Physicians; Doctors REMARKS MITCHELL AT THE DINNER IN HONOR OF WILLIAM H. WELCH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: T is said that hovering near your infant couch Last Line: "tuus ex anima." Subject(s): Nature; Physicians; Welch, William Henry (1850-1934); Doctors REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife." Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more' Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness RIP VAN WINKLE, M. D., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old rip van winkle had a grandson rip Last Line: Our brother rip, m. M. S. S., m. D.! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you don't know doc sifers I'll jes' argy, here and now Last Line: Tamam Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Physicians; Sickness; Woods; Doctors; Illness S.W., by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleadinmg. Too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aids Subject(s): Surgery; Aids (disease); Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL; EPITAPH FOR 'LYONNELL LOCKIER', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lockyer lies interr'd: enough his name Last Line: "this verse is lost, his pills embalm him safe / to future times without an epitaph" Subject(s): Epitaphs;physicians; Doctors ST. GEORGE'S PENITENTIARY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The learned and facetious dr. Airy Last Line: Had we just now the time to write 'em. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Physicians; Doctors SUM PRACTYSIS OF MEDECYNE, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guk, guk, gud day, ser, gaip quhill ye get it Last Line: (ane uthir manis erss.) Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 4. THE PASSIONS, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The choice of aliment, the choice of air Last Line: One power of physic, melody, and song. Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF PAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive a moment, if a friend's regret Last Line: ^1^ oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Pain; Physicians; Suffering; Misery; Doctors THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consumed. Eaten away. And love across the street Subject(s): Physicians; Death; Doctors; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the jury your name. Subject(s): Trials; Physicians; Labor & Laborers; Death; Doctors; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOROUGH: LETTER 7. PROFESSIONS - PHYSIC, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next, to a graver tribe we turn our view Last Line: And spoil the fruits of this nefarious trade. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE CHAMELEON AND THE DOCTOR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: There was a chameleon laid up in a bed Last Line: A young lady's bright batik sweater for sport. Subject(s): Chameleons; Physicians; Doctors THE CURE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, doctor, use thy roughest art Last Line: That I should hope 'twould almost quench my fire. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, SELECTION, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Frequent oil your safety-clutch. Subject(s): Death; Egoism & Egotism; Holidays; Noses; Physicians; Social Protest; Dead, The; Doctors THE DOCTOR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stories! Stories! Nothin' but stories! Last Line: You liked little katty? Well, that's enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE DOCTOR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't see why pa likes him so Last Line: The doctor come to make a call. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE DOCTOR, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: You chose secure delight who so combined Last Line: Ride in the memoried cell defying death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors THE DOCTOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We may idealize the chief of Last Line: Do we idealize the doctor some? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Physicians; Praise; Sickness; Doctors; Illness THE DOCTOR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The doctor! How that name doth call to mind Last Line: While we are living in this finite world. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Sickness; Dead, The; Doctors; Illness THE DOCTOR WHO SITS AT THE BEDSIDE OF A RAT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE EYES OF LOVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doctors came, they looked, they said Last Line: The eyes of love, they know, they know. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Love; Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness THE FLITTIN', by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Sure, the little house is tumblin' now Last Line: As I shuts th' oul' brown door! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Physicians; Sickness; Dead, The; Paradise; Doctors; Illness THE FOUR HUMOURS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection THE GRAY CHIEF; FOR MEETING OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to fight our battles o'er Last Line: His manhood's twice-told years! Subject(s): Bigelow, Jacob (1786-1879); Physicians; Doctors THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them Last Line: Braver than the brave? Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War THE INTERNE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the agony of having too much power! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE LADY DOCTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye that spinster gaunt and grey Last Line: Disconsolate and lonely. Subject(s): Physicians; Spinsters; Women; Doctors; Old Maids THE LITTLE FAT DOCTOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so strange to me, every Last Line: "as the little fat doctor does!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Physicians; Youth; Doctors THE LOT, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: I've seen a specialist who thinks Last Line: And next a specialist. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE MORNING VISIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sick man's chamber, though it often boast Last Line: The truest, noblest, wisest, kindest, best. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE NERVE DOCTORS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come by the busload the nerve doctors: some Subject(s): Conventions; Leadership; Physicians; Assemblies; Meetings; Doctors THE PHYSICIAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose healing reaches far Last Line: Now, and through eternity. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF J.L. MCDOWELL, M.D. (MOUNTAIN DOCTOR), 1970, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of its plain brown Subject(s): Christmas; Physicians; Nativity, The; Doctors THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent for radcliffe [or ratcliffe]; was so ill Last Line: I died last night of my physician. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE SICK DOCTOR, by E. ARNAL Poem Text First Line: A certain doctor, sick and near to die Last Line: This man is past recovery!' Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE SLAVE SHIP, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The supercargo mynher van koek Last Line: "there's an end to my occupation." Subject(s): Blacks; Physicians; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Doctors; Serfs THE STETHOSCOPE SONG; A PROFESSIONAL BALLAD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young man in boston town Last Line: By a couple of silly, abnormal flies. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TIMELY TOPIC, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When modern people get together, they do Last Line: Mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon! Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness THE TWO ARMIES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As life's unending column pours Last Line: To sit beside the throne! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE TWO DOCTORS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said dr. Do, 'drink lots of milk Last Line: "I go to dr. Do." Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE VILLAGE DOCTOR, by SAMUEL SLAYTON LUCE Poem Text First Line: I see him still, as erst of yore Last Line: "their names shall grace the ""book of life." Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp? Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL PINDARIC ODE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus long my grief has kept me dumb Last Line: The fasces of the main. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors TO ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. (AT THE DINNER CELEBRATING HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No honors hath the state for you whose life Last Line: That all their ways fair fortune strew with flowers. Subject(s): Jacobi, Abraham (1930-1919); Physicians; Praise; Doctors TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger, and from thee. Variant Title(s): To Doctor Empirick Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors TO DR EMPIRIC, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger -- and from thee! Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors TO DR. AUSTIN, OF CECIL STREET, LONDON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Austin! Accept a grateful verse from me! Last Line: And boldly call thee, being his, my own. Variant Title(s): To Dr. Austen, Of Cecil Street, London Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors TO DR. MAXWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maxwell, if merit here you crave Last Line: An angel could not die! Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness TO DR. SCHOMBERG, OF BATH, by PAUL WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To schomberg quoth death, 'I your patient will have' Last Line: Since he and the college had been in alliance. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors TO F.A.B., A VIRTUOUS YOUNG PHYSICIAN ABOUT TO PRACTISE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Frank, young in years, but no unworthy heir Last Line: The master whom luke served is also thine. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Physicians; Professions; Work; Workers; Doctors TO MR. MACKENZIE, SURGEON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friday first's the day appointed Last Line: That saturday you'll fetch him. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors TO SIR THOS. BARLOW, P.R.C.P., by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's all up I may tell you, good thomas barlow Last Line: Most kindly frank'd me a copy of his dissertation. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945); Physicians; Doctors TRIOLET, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perfectly clear liquid like water Last Line: Last night, in the cold hospital, this is what I saw. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors UPON A PHYSITIAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cam'st to cure me (doctor) of my cold Last Line: First cur'd thy selfe; then come and cure me. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors VERSES DESIGNED FOR AN INFIRMARY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear loving sirs! Behold, as ye pass by Last Line: "come, ye true friends, and be for ever blest." Subject(s): Blessings; Compassion; Healing; Physicians; Sickness; Cures; Doctors; Illness VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift. Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF ENGLAND'S ARCH-POET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See who ne'er was or will be half-read! Last Line: But send him, honest job, thy wife. Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians; Doctors VERSES: READ ON THE PRESENTATION BY S. WEIR MITCHELL TO THE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them great who have the magic art Last Line: "divide the honors,—let us share the boy!" Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Last Line: It was fabulous, what the body told Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Subject(s): Physicians; Medicine; Physicians; Doctors; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT WOULD I GIVE, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I would like to give them for a change Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors WHEN UNCLE DOC WAS YOUNG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though doctor glen - the best of Last Line: When uncle doc was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What truth the doctor reads Last Line: And breath. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors |
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