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Subject: FEVER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE FEVER LIFTED, by AL GABOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day gertruda followed her father's wagon
Last Line: At the incessant %earthbound pull
Subject(s): Child Labor; Fever; Memory


CABIN FEVER, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know I should say, it's january
Last Line: By the center of the sky closing %in
Subject(s): Fever; Sickness


CALENTURE, by ALASTAIR REID    Poem Source                    
First Line: He never lives to tell
Last Line: I walked toward her on the flowing water
Subject(s): Fever; Love


DEAD, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who did you say, my lady?' drawled the earl
Last Line: "the music makes me giddy. Take me home!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Yellow Fever; Dead, The


FEVER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In your sleep you talked
Last Line: I love you too.
Subject(s): Fever; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Talk; Male-female Relations


FEVER, by COLIN HAMILTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wherever I looked, it was as though water rose - %rippling rocks
Last Line: Like water, I ran to the place where nothing is
Subject(s): Fever


FEVER, by LYNN STRONGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dovey is cooling down
Last Line: Taking flight from fevers, crafting the violence, the visions, into calm
Subject(s): Fever


FEVER 103 DEGREES, by SYLVIA PLATH            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure? What does it mean?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fever; Sickness; Illness


FEVER 103 DEGREES, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure? What does it mean?
Last Line: My selves dissolving, old whore petticoats - %to paradise
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fever; Sickness


FLU, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today, the word means any sniffle or catarrh
Last Line: Outside (we descendants following behind), %into -- was it by chance? -- shadow or light
Subject(s): Death; Fever; Health; Hospitals; Sickness


IN MEMORY OF A FRIEND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the feathery fronds of palm
Last Line: And consecrates a soul!
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Schalch, Ernest (d. 1874); Yellow Fever


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 18. BERWICK LA. OCT 2ND 1863, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mrs. Blood. Dear madam, yours of sept. 13
Last Line: But o alas! In life we are in death
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Typhoid Fever; U.s. - History


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


OUTLAWS, by WALTER GRIFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fever brought your eyes
Last Line: Filling the night sky full of holes, %fast-drawing against the bandanaed dark
Subject(s): Fever


REUNITED, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Purer than thy own white snow
Last Line: "o northland, in thy generous deed and grand."
Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; Yellow Fever; South (u.s.)


SCENE DURING THE PLAGUE AT GIBRALTAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, I only buried one
Last Line: And there I stood alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Yellow Fever


SICKNESS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we were never stretched in bed, with sickness
Last Line: "neighbors are!"
Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Health Resorts; Sickness; Spas; Illness


SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mirrors we lay wherein desire
Last Line: Night's pleasure and the press of weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Desire; Fever; Fire


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 5, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let perjured fair amynta know
Last Line: That pity ever dwelt with pride.
Subject(s): Fever; Love; Pain; Pity; Pride; Suffering; Misery; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE STRICKEN SOUTH TO THE NORTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ruthful time the south's memorial places
Last Line: Subdues the souls which hate could only wound!
Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; Yellow Fever; South (u.s.)


THE YELLOW FEVER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sky is pure, the clouds are light
Last Line: The spirit was -- but is not there!
Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sea; Yellow Fever; Dead, The; Ocean


YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks
Last Line: They dance the dance they dance
Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats