|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HEALTH Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 14-OCT-87, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: 4 a.M. %and I am Last Line: In light %gold Subject(s): Aids (disease); Health; Sickness; Strangers A POSSET FOR NATURE'S BREAKFAST, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life scums the cream of beauty with time's spoon Last Line: And with this meat doth nature please herself. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Health; Nature; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ALETHEIA, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: It's the opposite of amnesia, losing your memory Last Line: I turn my back and mutter no please go away get lost I refuse Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Amnesia; Health; Memory AMID THE COLORADO MOUNTAINS, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN Poem Source First Line: High black mountain peaks conspire Last Line: The soft glow of such hours Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Health Resorts ARROWS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a beautiful woman wakes up Last Line: And nothing that I did or that was done to me, / was ever real Subject(s): Health ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH, SELS., by JOHN ARMSTRONG Subject(s): Health BALLADE: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though some do grudge to see me joy Last Line: As I deserve, so let me have. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Happiness; Health; Life; Joy; Delight CANCION, by JUAN [JOAN] ESCRIVA Poem Source First Line: Come death, with so much stealth Last Line: The very breath of health Subject(s): Health CHEERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine drinking to the health Subject(s): Health; Toasts CLEAN STREETS, by STAN PROPER Poem Source First Line: Public health and safety Last Line: Surely were potential %molesters and rapists Subject(s): Public Health CLOE TO CLARA; A SARATOGA LETTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear clara - I wish you were here Last Line: Cloe. Subject(s): Health Resorts; Saratoga, New York; Spas CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 6. HEALTH AND STRENGTH, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Books say everybody can live forever Last Line: Fog the smog to life without end! Subject(s): Activity; Health; Life DEAD LEAVES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen leaves were lying thick upon the Last Line: Be all wrong. Subject(s): Dirt; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Leaves; Nature; Public Health DEATH IN LEAMINGTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She died in the upstairs bedroom Subject(s): Death; Health Resorts; Dead, The; Spas DEATH IN LEAMINGTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She died in the upstairs bedroom Last Line: And tiptoeing gently over the stairs %turned down the gas in the hall Subject(s): Death; Health Resorts 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 DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the land of the dark-eyed gente Last Line: Smoke — smoke — smoke. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Health; Pleasure; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes EKG, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: All those cutaways and exploded views Last Line: Just what's causing this good that we feel Subject(s): Health EXCEEDING ALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life's a lovely thing to know Last Line: The loveliness of youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Health; Life; Youth EXERCISE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A good long walk each day is wise, but as Last Line: "degeneration fatty!" Subject(s): Activity; Health; Exercise FACING THE BATHS OF CARACALLA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dull between the aventine and the caelian Last Line: Through capena down to the appian way she %spreads her strong torso Subject(s): Health Resorts; Landscape FANNY: 53, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In physic, we have francis and m'neven Last Line: And make a starveling druggist if apollo Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Health; Medicine 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 FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1789, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the demon of the summer storm Last Line: Albion the garland gives on this distinguish'd day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1790, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within what fountain's craggy cell Last Line: And wafts their pomp of war, and spreads their thunder wide! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health HEALTH, by BRIAN BURKE Poem Source First Line: I'm a child & my aunts & some neighbour women Last Line: She's never been ill a day in her life Subject(s): Health; Mothers HEALTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Health is no other (as the learned hold) Last Line: But a just measure both of heat and cold. Subject(s): Health HEALTH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land Last Line: Though scarce this spring could my body leap four yards Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Health HEALTH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear eyes, that dance with inward light Last Line: Beneath the shining of the sun. Subject(s): Health HELEN KELLER DYING IN HER SLEEP, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: Here is the pump again, its cool neck Last Line: And now it smells like night Subject(s): Health; Physicians; Sickness HELLO FOR JUDITH CHANDLER, by JIM BODEEN Poem Source First Line: I say using her hello Last Line: The virus in ted %was a kind of medicine Subject(s): Health; Sickness HOSPITAL HEROES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the glory of battles Last Line: Theirs be a lasting fame! Subject(s): Health; Heroism; Hospitals; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War IN SICKNESS (1714), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true -- then why should I repine / to see my life so fast decline? Last Line: When known, will save a double sorrow. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Health; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness IN THE PINK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I am in the pink of health, the pink of condition Last Line: In the pink of unspeakable perfection Subject(s): Health; Prayer INFLAMMATION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Even if hidden to the naked eye, it persists Last Line: With all manner of shadowform-and on fire Subject(s): Health; Physicians; Sickness INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard two neighbours talk the other night Last Line: As when in health to drive it there by art? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Health; Sickness; Small Pox; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Illness INVOCATION TO HEALTH, by CYNTHIA TAGGART Poem Text First Line: O health, thy succouring aid extend Last Line: Leave me not thus to die! Subject(s): Health LANDSCAPE OF THE INTERIOR, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Within our body lives a multitude of forms Last Line: Rattle in the throat's narrow passageway Subject(s): Bodies; Health; Mankind; Organ Donors; Physiology LASTING, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish oils,' my doctor snorted, 'and oily fish Last Line: The heart's tough muscle-weak still in gratitude Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Aging; Dieting; Food And Eating; Health LET THE GAY ONES AND GREAT, by DAVID GARRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But health and diversion unite. Subject(s): Happiness; Health; Joy; Delight LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel LUCASTA TAKING THE WATERS AT TUNBRIDGE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye happy floods! That now must pass Last Line: Of virtue, honour, love and bliss. Subject(s): Health Resorts; Tunbridge Wells, England; Spas MASTECTOMY POEMS: 12. EPILOGUE: NEVERTHELESS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bookbag on my back, I'm out the door Last Line: The bookbag on my back, I have to run Subject(s): Breasts; Health MORNING REPORT ON HEALTH, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You just came home from the hospital Last Line: For the times when you'll be abandoned %again Subject(s): Health; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness MY BATH, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come here, good people great and small Last Line: You'll come forth like a flower that blooms 'neath freshening showers in may! Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Health Resorts; Showers & Showering; Spas NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 27TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou no care how to defer thy death Last Line: I say he only was, he did not live. Subject(s): Health; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NEWS, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: All that cholesterol you ingest Last Line: Don't worry - take care of yourself - %all will be well Subject(s): Health NOT LOVED ENOUGH, NOR YET QUITE LOST, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI Poem Source Last Line: I am too dear for your possessing Subject(s): National Health Service (great Britain); Riddles ODE TO HEALTH, by FRANCES (MOORE) BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lesbian lute no more can charm Last Line: I leave the lessening vales behind. Subject(s): Health ON THE PROMENADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O joyous idler in the sun Last Line: O youthful dreams that come no more! Subject(s): Fate; Health; Tears; Wealth; Youth; Destiny; Riches; Fortunes PARLOR IS PUBLIC, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: And the old woman comes in Last Line: And blacken your tastebuds Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Public Health PLEASURE MIXED WITH PAIN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venomous thorns that are so sharp and keen Last Line: Since every woe is joined with some wealth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epigram: 7 Subject(s): Flowers; Health POEM ON THE MINERAL WATERS OF BALLSTON AND SARATOGA, SELS., by REUBEN SEARS Subject(s): Geology; Health Resorts PREPOSITIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction) Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood SACRED EPIGRAM: CHRIST CURES THE ABSENT MAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could the voice just now sent forth already reach its goals? Last Line: The miracle was health itself - you may well believe - %whenthe very path to health is the miracle Subject(s): Health SANATORIAM, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: Gate, open Last Line: On your fiery floor %of snow Subject(s): Health Resorts SECOND HELPING, by DOUG DORPH Poem Source First Line: Since the heart attack, I come up the stairs Last Line: In my extra life, I don't Subject(s): Family Life; Health; Hearts; Sickness 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 SMART GIRL, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Turning fourteen, the oldest, you learn Last Line: Then back to school, a sophomore Subject(s): Girls; Health; Mothers; Nome, Alaska SONG OF SARATOGA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray, what do they do at the springs? Last Line: And that's what they do at the springs! Subject(s): Health Resorts; Saratoga, New York; Spas SONNET: 4. TO HONORA SNEYD, WHOSE HEALTH WAS ALWAYS BEST IN WINTER, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the youthful, gay, capricious spring Last Line: Dim winter's naked hedge and plashy field. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Health; Winter SPINOZA CYCLE: 2, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: How did he get into this sickroom Last Line: Wake up. Rise up. Recognize me Subject(s): Health Resorts; Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677) TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goe now; and with some dareing drugg Last Line: Hark hither; and thy self be he. Subject(s): Health; Lessius (leys), Leonard (1554-1623) TEXTBOOK CASE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man fell ill. The year of coughing passed Last Line: Disposition if not a martyr's persistence, %if nothing else the good fortune to die Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 1. AIR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Daughter of paeon, queen of every joy Last Line: First-born of heaven, and only less than god! Subject(s): Health; Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Medicine; Oxygen; Drugs, Prescription THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The languid stomach curses even the pure Last Line: Too fast the gummy nutriment imbibes. Subject(s): Advice; Food & Eating; Health THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. DIET, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Enough of air. A desert subject now Last Line: The old descending, in their turns to rise. Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Dieting; Health; Veins; Arteries THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. RUSTIC INTERIOR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Nothing so foreign but th' athletic hind Last Line: Grow wiser, lesson'd by the dropping teeth. Subject(s): Athletes; Food & Eating; Health THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. THE GASTRIC MUSE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: There are, whose blood Last Line: So to be cleared, but foulness will remain. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Health THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. EXERCISE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Through various toils the adventurous muse has pass'd Last Line: And other themes invite my wandering song. Subject(s): Activity; Health; Exercise THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. ON WASHING, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Against the rigours of a damp cold heaven Last Line: To lose a husband's than a lover's heart. Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Health; Love; Skin 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 BEAUTY OF BALLSTON, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In ballston - once a famous spot Last Line: A constant rival in my larder! Subject(s): Health Resorts; Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-1839); Spas THE BRUISED HEEL, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the heat, as they float over earth, of infectious / stars Last Line: His infinite way is, his joy in the way so strong! Subject(s): Bodies; Health THE HEART IN THE JAR; MEDITATION UPON NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive it beats in a bosom of glass Last Line: Death and the artist grapple for the knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944); Health; Hearts; Medicine; Veins; Arteries; Drugs, Prescription THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 12. EPILOGUE: NEVERTHELESS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bookbag on my back, I'm out the door Last Line: The bookbag on my back, I have to run Subject(s): Breasts; Health 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 YOUTH OF AGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a moment when, with pained surprise Last Line: The stars are heralding another dawn! Subject(s): Aging; Health; Life; Youth TO A MAIDEN; WINNER IN THE THOUSAND-METER RACE, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me look at you in silence, until I lower my head Last Line: The old, virgin surprise of the savage beholding a maid. Subject(s): Athletes; Health; Mothers; Sports; Victory TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The TOBACCO, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tobacco is a harmful weed, the learned Last Line: Means an early tomb. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fire; Health; Lungs; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes VILLAGE SPA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Health Resorts; Spas VILLAGE SPA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number Last Line: A juke-box god, enshrined and well at home, %dreadful with neon, shuddering with chrome Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Health Resorts VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy were galen to be weigh'd in gold Last Line: Purchaseth realmes, and life prolonged brings. Subject(s): Death; Health; Life; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Dead, The VISIONS IN VERSE: 3. HEALTH, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Attend my visions, thoughtless youths Last Line: And their calm sun-set beam with gold. Subject(s): Health WANG STREAM COLLECTION': GOLD DUST SPRING, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: You drink each day from gold dust spring Last Line: Feathered ensigns go to jade emperor's court Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Health Resorts WASH LOWRY'S REMINISCENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you're the poet of this concern? Last Line: By plowin' in rougher soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Health; Poetry & Poets WE HEARD HEALTH CARE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We heard health care and we thought public option Subject(s): Health Care & Insurance; United States - Politics & Government; Social Classes; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR NOTHING?, by WILLIAM ZANDER Poem Source First Line: Something, a pill, a shot, an overdose Last Line: Something to get it up (I mean my heart) Subject(s): Health WHOSE CHILDREN, by EDWARD HUNTER Poem Source First Line: It was to the city of glasgow you came Last Line: Convener of the red clyde public health writes this of you, %my children Subject(s): Children; Glasgow, Scotland; Public Health WRITTEN IN HEALTH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Forbid, oh fate! Forbid that I Last Line: That end by rushing on the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Health 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 |
|