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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ILLNESS Matches Found: 478 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening a vein he called my radial Last Line: Rubbed my arm, which, once, pricked, had tingled, then bruised Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness A BIRTHDAY CARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her eighties now, and weak and ill Subject(s): Aunts; Sickness; Birthdays; Illness A BOUTS-RIMES SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I grew half delirious and quite sick Last Line: Creature had love for me, and others spite. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness; Sleep; Dead, The; Illness A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand-dad, they say you're old and frail Last Line: You do not hear me, dad. Subject(s): Grandparents; Sickness; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Illness A DAY IN BED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had not got a cold Last Line: And waiting to be fed. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear mother, fairest queen and best Last Line: And in a while, you'll tell another tale. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND BODY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, who shall from this dungeon raise / a soul enslaved so many ways? Last Line: Green trees that in the forest grew. Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Soul; Illness A FEVER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh do not die, for I shall hate / all women so, when thou art gone Last Line: Of thee one hour, than all else ever. Variant Title(s): A Feaver Subject(s): Death; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness A FLAT ONE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old fritz, on this rotating bed Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A FRIEND'S ILLNESS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness brought me this Last Line: Against a soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Friendship; Sickness; Illness A GOOD DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain gentleman, whose yellow cheek Last Line: "how! -- why you'll see blue pillars at the door." Subject(s): Sickness; Travel Directions; Illness A HALF-LIFE, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sun today Last Line: Even the gulls above the silver ferry Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness A HAT TRIMMED BY A MADWOMAN, by RUTH MASON RICE Poem Text First Line: I saw she'd trimmed the straw hat with avid care Last Line: Not knowing she had sewed her madness there. Subject(s): Hats; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness A LETTER, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You write that you are ill, confused. The trees Last Line: Ten years older, tame now, less mad, less beautiful Subject(s): Sickness; Aging; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, make haste: the day's too long; be gone Last Line: By all our loves conjure him not to stay. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life - nay, more Last Line: I here, thou there, yet both but one. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst not understand my words Last Line: Nor any rocking then. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A MOTHER'S PRAYER IN ILLNESS, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Take them first, my father! Let my doves Last Line: Let me find rest beside them, at thy feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Gays & Lesbians; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Sickness; Illness A PRAYER IN SICKNESS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Send down thy winged angel, god! Last Line: And heal our gentle child! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Faith; Prayer; Sickness; Belief; Creed; Illness A RECEIPT TO CURE THE VAPOURS, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will delia thus retire / and idly languish life away? Last Line: I believe the dose will do. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A SICK CHILD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Postman comes when I am still in bed, the Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! Subject(s): Sickness; Imagination; Children; Illness; Fancy; Childhood A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SICK-BED, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long hast thou watched my bed Last Line: When many years are past. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A SONNET. ON CYNTHIA SICK, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Help! Ye nymphs, whilst on the neighb'ring plain Last Line: Then let her suffer in the flames of love. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A STORY OF KING DAVID, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas the harvest-time, and the warrior king Last Line: Could a king do more, or a hero less? Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Enemies; Sickness; Illness A UTOPIAN JOURNEY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a minute the doctor will find out what is wrong Variant Title(s): The Long Vacation Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A WASTED ILLNESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through vaults of pain Last Line: To reach that door. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AFTER OPERATION, by JULIET BRANHAM Poem Text First Line: Sick with other ills than these Last Line: Pain is not so long as death. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AFTER SICKNESS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I nearly died, I almost touched the door Last Line: "strong death! Where is thy sting?'" Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AFTERNOON AT MACDOWELL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a windy summer day the well-dressed Last Line: To find late innings of a red sox game? Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AGAIN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was such darkness in him then. And I repeated Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Mortality AGAINST ELEGIES, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AIDA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight – it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AIR, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open window, a confusion Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking AN APPEAL FOR THOMAS ELLIOT, THE SHOEMAKER POET, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor tom's a-cold!' upon his shrinking head Last Line: Lend to the lord—he surely will repay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Healing; Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Cures; Illness AN APPRECIATION, by RUTH LAMBERT JONES Poem Text First Line: Clinical thermometer, / infallible barometer Last Line: I have proof positive I'm dead! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AN EVENING LULL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a week of physical anguish Last Line: Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AN UPHILL FIGHT, by MAURICE C. WAUGH Poem Text First Line: You may be ill and you may be sore Last Line: That comes from winning an uphill fight. Subject(s): Sickness; Strength; Illness AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347 Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness; Illness ANIMA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in feeble health, the hectic on your cheek Last Line: I have not loved you for your face—I've loved you for your soul! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Illness ANSWERED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to find some healing clime Last Line: She hath eternal life to-day. Subject(s): Prayer; Illness APHASIA; FOR HONEYA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the stroke all she could say Subject(s): Illness ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness AT DAYBREAK, by PEARL FANCOLLY HALLETT Poem Text First Line: Beside the walk / a terraced wall Last Line: At break of day. Subject(s): Decay; Sickness; Rot; Decadence; Illness AT EAGLE POND, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In april the ice rots. Over the pocked glaze Subject(s): Daughters; Illness; Time ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been having these / awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn’t know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night / and thought, it was a dream Last Line: It was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: Stubborn girl. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy and tony / can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUGUST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbor, tall and blonde and vigorous, the mother Subject(s): Neighbors; Sickness; Illness AWA' FRAE GOWRIE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: She wis never that young, she wis never just that bonny Last Line: Gin she's awa' frae gowrie? Subject(s): Love; Sickness; Illness BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING Poem Full Text First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BALLADE: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BEAUTIFUL SPRIG, by J. P. WELSH Poem Text First Line: Sprig, sweet sprig, is cobig Last Line: Vaidly try to blow by dose. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness BEFORE AND AFTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was too sick to leave the factory Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things within this fading world hath end Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness BEHOLD MY HANDS, by LULA G. WINSTON Poem Text Last Line: We'll feel thy wounds and know the touch divine. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Sickness; Cures; Illness BEIN' SICK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am really sick abed Last Line: When I am sick. Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness BEING SICK OF A FEVER, COMPLAINS OF THE FOUNTAIN CASIS, by GIOVANNI [GIOVANO] PONTANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Casis, to craving fields thou lib'ral flood Last Line: Orpheus appeas'd her with his harp before. Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus Subject(s): Fountains; Sickness; Illness BEING VISITED BY A FRIEND DURING ILLNESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been ill so long that I do not count the days Last Line: Gradually the feelings came back to my numbed heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness; Illness BELINDA'S RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus when the silent grave becomes Last Line: We angels rise, who mortals died. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness BENEDICTION IN PASSING, by IRENE CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Under the clouded road's precipitate edge Last Line: And take your quiet baby to your breast. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: Shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness BOUT WITH BURNING, by VASSAR MILLER Poet's Biography First Line: I have tossed hours upon the tides of fever Subject(s): Sickness; Illness BURNING, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lives, who last night flopped from a log Last Line: Burning a house burning in the wilderness Subject(s): Sickness; Dogs; Illness BY FAITH NOT SIGHT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot get / out of ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness CARRYING THE FIRE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He felt fevered, even in the wind Subject(s): Illness; Death; Dead, The CH'IN CHIA'S WIFE'S REPLY, by MRS. CH'IN CHIA Poem Text First Line: My poor body is alas unworthy Last Line: The tears fall down and wet my skirt. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Sickness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness CHRISTOPHER SMART, by STANLEY SHAW Poem Text First Line: Mad is the poet men call kit Last Line: Mad as his faith is strong. Subject(s): Insanity; Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Madness; Mental Illness CHURCH-GOING TIM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tim black is bedridden, you say? Last Line: It's not for tim, sir; it's for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness COLD HEAD, COLD START, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose no one has ever died of a head cold Subject(s): Illness COMMANDS OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness COMPLAINT OF THE CONVALESCENT, by GERALDINE MEYRICK Poem Text First Line: When you're sick in bed of something Last Line: "lemon jelly, by and by." Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sickness; Illness CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CONVALESCENCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you sit propped in bed / you seem to me Last Line: Sap, I think. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness COR INSURGENS, by H. COLUMBUS ISAACS Poem Text First Line: At last I've 'scaped those prison walls Last Line: Oh god, let madness return again! Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This one was put in a jacket Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness COUSIN BELL; AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark fir-wud hings ower the burn Last Line: The brithers' hearts for sister bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness CREPUSCULE WITH MURIEL, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of a cup of tea, instead of a milk- Subject(s): Rukeyser, Muriel (1913-1980); Strokes (illness) DAVID LEMIEUX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first boyfriend is dead of aids. The one Last Line: To reconnect to the ground. We were the ones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back on medication / he takes inventory Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness DINNA CHIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Dinna chide the mither! Last Line: Ye may na hae her lang! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Sickness; Infants; Illness DOC HOLLIDAY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The silences grow taller Last Line: Of the once happy beast Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness 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 AND NURSES, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A life for saving of life! Last Line: And, living or dying, are blest! Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness DON QUIXOTE, by HANNELORE JOSEPH Poem Text First Line: So you died sane, oh jester of the universe Last Line: Of all humanity -- we're all in vain. Subject(s): Death; Don Quixote; Insanity; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness E.W., by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your purpled, parchment forearm Subject(s): Mothers; Illness EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mexico, I met myself one day Last Line: In mexico, they sing so beautifully Subject(s): Mexico; Gays & Lesbians; Illness 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 ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo soul did hear her lips complain Last Line: Would never mwore return. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Mourning; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness EMIGRATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Try being sick for a year Last Line: And you are travelling Subject(s): Sickness; Illness EPISTLE TO JAMES MOMTAGUE, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although you have out of your proper store Last Line: Than when they are esteemed and loved best? Subject(s): Hearts; Mankind; Montague, James (1568-1618); Religion; Sickness; Human Race; Theology; Illness ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike Last Line: For all such musings. Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness EVENING IN THE SANITARIUM, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The free evening fades, outside windows fastened with decorative iron grilles Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was almost bedtime, and something was wrong Last Line: By both my hands again, and we walked home Subject(s): African Americans; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Streets; Negroes; American Blacks; Illness; Avenues EVERYTHING; FOR MY MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this all life is then Last Line: Everything were under water. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness EXEGESIS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born on a day / that god was sick Last Line: That I masticate... Yet they don't know Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Illness EXTENDED CARE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Katherine wears her hat Subject(s): Disease; Illness; Disability FABLES: 1ST SER. 27. THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no hope? The sick man said Last Line: Then why such haste? So groan'd and dy'd. Subject(s): Angels; Hope; Sickness; Optimism; Illness FEELING NO PAIN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless the ear doc Subject(s): Illness; Ears; Medicine; Drugs, Prescription FELIX RANDAL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Felix randal the farrier, o is he dead then? My duty all ended Last Line: Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Clergy; Death; Mourning; Sickness; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness FEVER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have brough back a good message from the land of 102 degrees Last Line: That some secrets ard hidden from health Subject(s): Sickness; Illness 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 FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was no other place Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology FLOWERS AND MUSIC IN A ROOM OF SICKNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Lightly tread! Still tranquilly she sleeps Last Line: Conqueror! Thou son of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Sickness; Theology; Illness FOR GOD WHILE SLEEPING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping in fever, I am unfit Subject(s): Illness; Theology FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90, by RICHARD HOWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, / its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness; Cures; Illness FOR THE MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be alone at last Last Line: They will say you are well Subject(s): Anger; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness FRAGMENT (PROBABLY WRITTEN DURING ILLNESS), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sick of gruel, and the dietetics Last Line: In short, within a word, I'm sick of sickness. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness FROM MY HOSPITAL WINDOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see from my hospital window Last Line: With the conquering eyes of health! Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if somewhere, away, a dorr had slammed shut Last Line: I can't. I could not save you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, despite what you believed, that Last Line: We were walking, that we are walking upon them Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, again, / a wind that failed to bring storm Last Line: Then we rise; are astounded Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness GEO-BESTIARY: 17, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sent far from my land of bears Last Line: And learned to bob like an apple on the river's surface. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness GETTIN' WELL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When yer really sick abed Last Line: When I've been sick. Subject(s): Children; Healing; Sickness; Childhood; Cures; Illness GHAZALS: 32, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All those girls dead in the war from misplaced or aimed Last Line: And that nurse threw a tumor at you from the hospital window. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood... Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness GRIEF UNIVERSAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all Last Line: The globe. Subject(s): Grief; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness HAMLET, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's there? Last Line: Of ordnance is shot off. Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Revenge; Supernatural; Tragedy; Madness; Mental Illness HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons & Prisoners; Surgery; Negroes; American Blacks; Madness; Mental Illness; Convicts HATS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auntie lies in the rest home Last Line: Point their fingers, run as fast as they can in the opposite direction Subject(s): Prose Poem; Old Age; Illness HAVING BEEN ASKED WHAT IS A MAN? I ANSWER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oldest son comes to visit me Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness HAVING IT OUT WITH MELANCHOLY, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, you waited Last Line: Its bright, unequivocal eye Subject(s): Sickness; Illness HEARTBEATS, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Work out. Ten laps Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HERE'S A HEALTH, by JEREMY SAVILLE Poem Text First Line: Here's a health unto his majesty Last Line: With a fa, la, la, la, la, la, la. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Sickness; Illness HIS YOUTH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad? Last Line: Hushed his wild words. Well, has he found his youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Youth; Dead, The; Illness HOLUS BOLUS, by E. G. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: He lay in the hospital, pallid and weak Last Line: "for the blithering camel blew first!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower Subject(s): Accidents; Camels; Sickness; Illness HOSPICE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HOW I AM, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I talk to my friends I pretend I am standing on the wings Subject(s): Friendship; Illness HYMN TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I am coming to that holy room Last Line: Therefore that he may raise the lord throws down. Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Death; Geography; God; Sickness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Illness HYMN, BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! That in the olive shade Last Line: Hallow this grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness HYMN: ON RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh saviour of the faithful dead Last Line: That thou hast died for me. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness HYPER-, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then a stillness descended the blue hills. Subject(s): Sickness; Teenagers; Illness I HAD A TAPEWORM, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a tapeworm, and imagined it Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Illness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ILLNESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad, sad - lean with long illness Last Line: Deep down still aches as of old! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness; Illness IMPOTENT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With willing hands and a loving heart Last Line: "the welcome plaudit, ""well done, well done!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness IN A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark time, the eye begins to see Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Night; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime IN HAITI: 5. HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER; DESCHAPELLES, HAITI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the old beggar who sits Last Line: Of haiti under my small straw hat. Subject(s): Death; Haiti; Mothers; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics & Criticism; Sickness; Illness IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content Last Line: Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness 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 SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Full Text First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Love; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness IN SICKNESS LIKE SLEEP, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is like this perhaps Last Line: Will gather us into its shade Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dumb hoof Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it but / yours, the one hand Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones do not matter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness 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 IN THE SHADOWS: 21, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when sunshine and blue sky prevail Last Line: And sink into my habit of despair. Subject(s): Despair; Sickness; Illness IN THE SHADOWS: 5, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, on coughing slightly with sharp pain Last Line: Forgetting that to abolish death christ died. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness IN THE SUBWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos is tamed and ordered as we ride Last Line: Reading their papers calmly, leisurely. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness IN THE TAXI TO THE MRI, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I try to concentrate on the weather. Everything Subject(s): Marriage; Illness; Anxiety; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 INSANITY, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: My mind is dark with shadows of a sea Last Line: My mind is dark with shadows of a sea. Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Madness; Mental Illness INVENTORY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IPECACUANHA, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coughing in a shady grove Last Line: "my damon, I am sick.'" Subject(s): Sickness; Illness ITALIAN LULLABY FOR A SICK CHILD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, dear child, as mother bids" Last Line: "sleep, sleep, and thou shalt be well" Subject(s): Sickness; Illness KINDERTOTENLIEDER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight everything becomes musical Last Line: To cold fresh water, then lost heart Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness KING DAVID: 2. THE FEAST IN SAUL'S HOME, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us how ehud stabbed the king of moab Subject(s): Saul (bible); Jews; Illness KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness LABOR, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a potion of forgetfulness Last Line: Saved the first man, perchance, from going mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Labor & Laborers; Madness; Mental Illness; Work; Workers LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness LAST LINES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look out I see the fair Last Line: Their supple thighs towards the sleek ocean. Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Self; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness LAST ON EARTH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said that many have been cured of madness by drinking Subject(s): Christianity; God; Drinks & Drinking; Insanity; Wine; Madness; Mental Illness LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!, by ISABEL MCLENNAN MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another dab of powder near your eye Last Line: Thank you, dear god. Our mary will get well! Subject(s): Babies; Sickness; Infants; Illness LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The metal harps of the high gates Last Line: I love its glint among the dust and stones. Subject(s): Change; Hospitals; Insanity; Introspection; Self-reliance; Madness; Mental Illness LES MORTS VONT VITE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Les morts vont vite! Ay, for a little space Last Line: Les morts vont vite! Subject(s): Death; Illness; Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend. It rained long and hard after a hot week and when I Last Line: Getting brainy and sad, to avoid leaving this physical world. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food & Eating; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Illness LIFE WITH SICK KIDS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One child coughs once Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness LIFE'S FALLACY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: All seeming hollow, all thy joys are naught! Last Line: With griefs thou weavest alone in heart. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sickness; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness LINES ON HEARING THAT LADY BYRON WAS ILL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou wert sad - yet I was not with thee Last Line: I would not do by thee as thou hast done! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Illness LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dicky was sick Last Line: "ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sickness; Time; Bedtime; Illness LITTLE GILBERT TO LITTLE RACHEL, DURING HER ILLNESS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rachel! Tell me what you know Last Line: Give you all I have—a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness LONGING FOR HEAVEN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As weary pilgrim now at rest Last Line: Then come, deare bridgrome, come away! Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness LOWCOUP, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Craziness is no / act Last Line: To speak / for god Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When she was but a little child Last Line: Even for her afflicted face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD JUDY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the hamlet hailed a birth Last Line: Judy was insane, we knew. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD POLL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There goes mad poll, dressed in wild flowers Last Line: Ha, ha!' poll laughs, and skips away. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild winds weep Last Line: With frantic pain. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness MAD SONG, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My madness is dear to me Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD TOM TATTERMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, grey man, good man scavenger, Last Line: "flocks are whiter than the flocks that all your shepherds keep." Subject(s): Babylon; Insanity; Sleep; Madness; Mental Illness MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe! Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America MADMAN, by MARIAN NEVIN FUNK Poem Text First Line: He said he was afraid Last Line: In his brain. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MADNESS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay in the house mostly living Last Line: Help help madness help Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itself Subject(s): Insanity; Summer; Madness; Mental Illness MALADE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone Last Line: Ah, but I am ill, and it is still raining, coldly raining! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness; Illness MANIAC'S SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can but smile when others weep Last Line: Than all the smiles I ever knew. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MARBLE-SIZED STONE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does she love you? She says yes, but really Subject(s): Love; Illness MAZORRA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of shock treatment Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MEMORY UNSETTLED, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pain still hangs in air Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness MEN MIND NO STATE IN SICKNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flow of gallants which approach Last Line: No joy to thee their sickly lord. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MENTAL CASES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Last Line: Pawing us who dealt them war and madness. Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers' Writings; War Injuries; World War I; Madness; Mental Illness; First World War MENTAL CASES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: --and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love Subject(s): Insanity; Nursing Homes; Voices; Madness; Mental Illness; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living MENTAL MOMMY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school at six years old, first grade, Subject(s): Mothers; Coming Of Age; Prisons & Prisoners; Insanity; Hospitals; Convicts; Madness; Mental Illness MENTAL-HEALTH WORKERS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly we were able to ignore the hairy thing Subject(s): Insanity; Labor & Laborers; Madness; Mental Illness; Work; Workers MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke Last Line: A wrinkle on the water. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism MINOR LITANY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This being a time confused and with few clear stars, Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MISS DRAKE PROCEEDS TG SUPPER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No novice / in those elaborate rituals Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Hospitals; Madness; Mental Illness MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain! Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean MOTHER'S LITANY BY THE SICK-BED OF A CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saviour, that of woman born Last Line: Hear and aid! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness MOTHERHOOD, by ELIZABETH POATE FLEMING Poem Text First Line: How still the house is! Last Line: Lord jesus, heal my little boy! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sickness; Childhood; Illness MUMPS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a feeling in my neck Last Line: And not a one said sour things %to anyone any more Subject(s): Mumps (illness) MY DIRGE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul Last Line: So far from home to die! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness MY KNEECAPS ARE SWEATING AT 4 AM, by JUDITH STRASSER Poem Text First Line: And I read this as good, a sign Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Sickness; Illness MY SPIRIT-HOME, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: I come, I come from my spirit-home Last Line: In the freedom and peace of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Sickness; Spirituality; Illness NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology NIGHT THOUGHTS OVER A SICK CHILD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven until they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NOBODY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Line after line smearing off into elephantine Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Illness NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE NOW BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE LAKE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father slides into third base Last Line: Without gloves and a lit cigar in his mouth Subject(s): Fathers; Illness OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 5. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FIRST EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lockly spits apace, the rheum he calls it Last Line: Tis no humour hurts, it is thy humour. Subject(s): Illness ODES II, 17. TO THOMAS STANLEY, BEING SICK OF FEVER, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am not I in thy fever sacrifiz'd? Last Line: Tis sure our mutual stars strangely agree. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Sickness; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Illness ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 12. ON RECOVERING FROM A FIT OF SICKNESS IN COUNTRY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy verdant scenes, o goulder's hill Last Line: "comes, worthy of thy heart, and equal to thy mind." Subject(s): Illness OLD AND CRAZY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though rising early with the lark Last Line: Who blames the poor old owl? Not I. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness ON A PAINTING BY PATIENT B OF INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These seven houses have learned to face one another Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While mad ophelia we lament Last Line: Or a dead-ebb of grief. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness ON CHLORIS BEING ILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long the night Last Line: Long, long, &c. Variant Title(s): On Chloris Being Ill Subject(s): Sickness; Illness ON HAIR FALLING OFF AFTER AN ILLNESS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conon was he whose piercing eyes Last Line: A brow serene which happier men adore. Subject(s): Hair; Sickness; Illness ON MISTRESS NEVILLE; TO THE GREEN SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, coward blood, and do not yield Last Line: Here war alone makes beauty reign. Subject(s): Illness ON MY DEAR GRANDCHILD SIMON WHO DIED ... ONE MONTH AND ONE DAY OLD, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep Last Line: Among the blessed in endless joys remain. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY; IN AFFLICTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Withering sorrow wilt thou come Last Line: "though thorns its dewy leaves enclose." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Sickness; Illness ON THE KING'S ILLNESS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest afflicted spirit, quickly pass Last Line: Nor to its call reluctant. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Illness ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORGAN SONGS: WRITTEN FOR ONE IN SORE PAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, on before thy sheep Last Line: Thou wilt miss me—and wilt find! Subject(s): God; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Sickness; Cures; Suffering; Misery; Illness 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 PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PHYSIK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Strait for ye doctor send Last Line: Who ly'st just at the point of everlasting death? Subject(s): Illness PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 10. SEA-SICKNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark-grey clouds of the afternoon Last Line: For thou art terra firma at least! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sickness; Illness PITYRIASIS ROSEA, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say the blood rose, meaning it came to the surface Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PLAGUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness POEMS FOR BUDDY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that same beginning winter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally I just lean on the door-frame, a Subject(s): Sons; Sickness; Prayer; Illness QUALITY OF WINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness QUERY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: What holds the swift enquiring mind Last Line: Murmured a spell to guard the soul. Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Shadows; Wandering & Wanderers; Madness; Mental Illness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War RECOVERY, by RON SCHREIBER First Line: Your arms & legs are shrunken Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (1), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear henley, with a pig's snout on Last Line: To make me uglier than I am. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Sickness; Illness RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way they ring Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness 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 RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism SAFEWAY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after an hour in her room Last Line: From what couldn't be saved Subject(s): Sickness; Mothers; Illness SAMANTHA QUITS GROWING, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: From ultrasound to ultrasound Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Grandchildren; Growth; Sickness; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Illness SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SATIRES: 1. THE STATE PROGRESS OF ILL, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say, 'tis hard to write satires, though ill Last Line: Compos'd as then: few men and many beasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sickness; Illness SEELE IN RAUM, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sat between my husband and my children Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness SEQUENCE: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad have black roots in their brains Last Line: The beating shriller. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness SICK BED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half dead with fever here in bed I sprawl Last Line: My face in pillows, praying for merciful sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Books; Sickness; Reading; Illness SICK I AM AND SORROWFUL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sick I am and sorrowful, how can I be well again Last Line: Here, where fear and sorrow are — my heart so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Sickness; War; Dead, The; Illness SICKLINESS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is strength, here Last Line: And the bugle of that manner shall call out the regiments of my tented soul. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness 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 SIMPLE QUESTION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you hear me? Do you / understand Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness; Illness SO WE'LL GO NO MORE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's fare thee well, my own true love; Subject(s): Illness; Abandonment; Love - Loss Of; Desertion SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America SONG: SCENE IN A MADHOUSE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sings her wild dirges, and smiles 'mid the strain Last Line: Your meekness who taught you? -- 'the willow.' Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 1. AFTER GRAVE ILLNESS, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body has two seasons Last Line: Things simply are Subject(s): Sickness; Illness SONNET FOUND IN A DESERTED MAD HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize! Last Line: Like a potato riding on the blast Subject(s): Insanity;nonsense; Madness;mental Illness SONNET TO SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER; WITH THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I have twice been at the doors of death Last Line: The murmuring esk: -- may roses shade the place. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): From A Cypress Grove Subject(s): Alexander, Sir William (1567-1640); Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Illness SONNET: 9. HOPE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, by wasting sickness worn Subject(s): Sickness; Hope; Illness; Optimism SPANISH, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mom worried that I was sick Subject(s): Mexican-american Families; Sickness; Illness SPARROW BONES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He told the secrets of his life Last Line: Before he flew. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness STANZAS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hopes that allured me Last Line: Tis the scream of the vulture despair at his prey. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness STILL LIFE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At moments almost thinking of her, I was Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE: IN THE EPIDEMIC, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light / old leaf spine Last Line: Green, blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness STONEHENGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning he'd anoint the room's four corners Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness STRIKERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mud and scum of things Last Line: Nothing shall keep us dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insanity; Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; Madness; Mental Illness; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that general rule which tells Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: A LITANY IN TIME OF PLAGUE, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, farewell earth's bliss! / this world uncertain is Last Line: Lord, have mercy on us. Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): A Lament;in Time Of Pestilence;in Plague Time;a Lament In Times Of Pestilence;lord, Have Mercy On Us;a Litany In Time Of Plague;death's Summons;song Of Ver And His Train Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Plague; Sickness; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness; Impermanence SUN AND MOON, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged and drowsy but not asleep Last Line: On the table in the hall Subject(s): Sickness; Illness SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War SUNDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was sunday-/ eleven in the morning; people were at / church Last Line: It was sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insanity; Marching & Marches; Sabbath; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness; Sunday SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men; Madness; Mental Illness TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town thought me a model woman Last Line: What a horrid thing I was when I got started. Subject(s): Insanity; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Murder; Orphans; Madness; Mental Illness; Foundlings TEDDY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Och teddy alanna, would ye lave me alone Last Line: "yit father o'day is a power in the lan'." Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness TERMINAL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eight years' difference in age seems now Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THAT DAY AT BOILING DOWNS, by JACK MATHIEU Poem Text First Line: He was driving irish tandem, but perhaps I talk at random Last Line: "for my nerves were much affected that day out on boiling downs." Subject(s): Insanity; Murder; Story-telling; Madness; Mental Illness THE AMBULANCE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see in our bustling town Last Line: For a breath of heaven in the darkest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Healing; Hospitals; Red Cross; Sickness; Cures; Illness THE ANOMALY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While riding in my buzz-buzz cart, I hit Last Line: That swiftly hies, I'll always try to run him down in preference to other guys. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE BEDLAMITE, by THOMAS MOZEEN Poem Text First Line: Tis not on the face displayed, / what I suffer, cruel maid! Last Line: An angel, now in heaven. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT; TO AN UNKNOWING GOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much wonder I - here long low-laid Last Line: The mercies thou wouldst show! Subject(s): Peasantry; Sickness; Illness THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Illness; Ennui; Convicts THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway. Subject(s): Death; Language; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Illness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gauley bridge is a good town for negroes, they let us stand Subject(s): African Americans; Labor & Laborers; Illness; Dust; Negroes; American Blacks; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood against the stove Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Illness; Death; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the lines on which a committee is formed. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Illness; Law & Lawyers; Work; Workers; Attorneys THE BRUISE OF THIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness 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 CASE OF THE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drinking the seconal dissolved in bourbon Subject(s): Illness THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you in its undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THE COMMON SICK, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All we had heard was of wounded men Last Line: Just to live and die.) Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the one in the irt tunnel Last Line: From each of their graves I rise, daughter. Embrace me Subject(s): Insanity; Talk; Women; Madness; Mental Illness THE DARK, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Agitated, rolling in her barred bed Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Hospitals; Illness THE DISTANT MOON, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: The distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness 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 DREAM, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dna chains spiral upward Subject(s): Illness THE DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it out - thirsty - put my teeth in my mouth Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sickness; Women; Illness THE EMBRACE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You weren't well or really ill yet either; Subject(s): Illness 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 FEAR OF MADNESS; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is something which I dread Last Line: (final poem) Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Insanity; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness; Illness THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; 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 FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOX, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quest brought a gray fox to the field behind my house Last Line: And the long brown yard stretching toward the gray house. Subject(s): Foxes; Sickness; Illness THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE HOSPITAL NURSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know when I am dead?' Last Line: "and for thy love to worship thee." Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Illness THE HURRY OF THE SPIRITS, IN A FEVER AND NERVOUS DISORDERS, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My frame of nature is a ruffled sea Last Line: And pay their duties to the ruling mind? Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE IDIOT GIRL, by MARY F. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Start not at her, who, in fantastic guise Last Line: "they both are in, and will come out no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Moncrieff, Mary F. Johnson Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16 Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE MAD GARDENER'S SONG, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just the place for a snark! The bellman cried, Last Line: "extinquishes all hope!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): Some Hallucinations;the Gardener's Song;the Strange Wild Song Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE MAD MAID'S SONG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to the day so fair Last Line: That I shall never find him! Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Madness; Mental Illness THE MAD PHILOSOPHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They let him wander as he will Last Line: Of his poor mind's imaginings. Subject(s): God; Insanity; Love; Philosophy & Philosophers; Madness; Mental Illness THE MADMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: His eye was stern and wild - his cheek was pale and cold as clay Last Line: "and ere I could arrest his hands, he had -- begun to shave!" Subject(s): Insanity;shaving; Madness;mental Illness THE MAN WITH THE NIGHT SWEATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up cold, I who Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE MANIAC, by MARY BRYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My own maria! -- ah my own -- my own! Last Line: In memory's tenderest thoughts, I have been all thine own! Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE MANIAC, by MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe! Last Line: Your task is done,—I 'm mad! I 'm mad! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Monk Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE MANIAC, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What art thou, whose eye-balls roll Last Line: And with soft pity's balm enchant thee to repose. Subject(s): Insanity; Pain; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery THE MANIAC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them sitting in the shade Last Line: Oh, hide me! Hide me! Hide me! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Jealousy; Murder; Madness; Mental Illness THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say a tempest is abroad to-night Last Line: "and say to her, "" arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness THE MISSING, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I watch the progress of the plague Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The peninsula seen from the hills near bath Last Line: Where, once, there was a peaceful, tropical ocean. Subject(s): Ghosts; Moths; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Supernatural; Illness THE NEW DEATH, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greater than thou art dead, fear not Last Line: Know what was that new death they knew! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE NIGHT OF WALLY'S SERVICE, WALLY SAID, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people will reflect back to you Last Line: Most people wanted me to come back, / but not mark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They renounce the very idea Last Line: Like the crazy birds, to their offspring. Subject(s): Children; Insanity; Parents; Childhood; Madness; Mental Illness; Parenthood THE PATIENT LOVERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is an illness still to be Last Line: That we are ill, of being well. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sickness; Women; Women's Rights; Illness; Feminism THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood by the window Last Line: "o mary, blessed be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the window stood the mother Last Line: "praise, mary, be to thee!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood at her lattice Last Line: "o mary, blest be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 223, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People can't explain / the reason they're so crazy Last Line: Homage to the buddha Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insanity; Buddha; Buddhists; Madness; Mental Illness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 234, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain speaks these words Last Line: And karma holds the reins Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Insanity; Wisdom; Madness; Mental Illness THE PULSE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman in a psychiatric ward Last Line: In the acequia never returns. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE REASSURANCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About ten days or so Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE RHYTHMS PROUNCE THEMSELVES ADN THEN VANISH, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After they told me the ct showed Subject(s): Illness; Body, Human THE SECRET GARDEN, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was ill, lying on my bed of old papers, Subject(s): Illness THE SHIP POUNDING, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning I made my way Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sickness; Illness THE SICK CHILD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy fevered arms around me Last Line: "oh! Not my will but thine." Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He for whom the world was made Last Line: In his mother's heart, dear lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK CHILD IN KENSINGTON, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the gardens / where lemon trees / bloom? Are they gardens Last Line: My gardens so still? Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK ROOM, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and a starry shower Last Line: Of suffering, and of sorrow's room. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE SICK-BED, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: O have you watched beside the bed Last Line: There's no repentance in the tomb. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE STONES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the city where men are mended. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Illness; Hospitals THE SUPREMER SACRIFICE, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close now the door; shut down the light Last Line: When next I see the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE SYMBOL OF MADNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll now begin to sing the song Last Line: "above the reach of vulgarity." Subject(s): Grief; Insanity; Nations; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness 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 TRANSPARENT MAN, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mighty glad to see you, mrs. Curtis, Last Line: And sat here and let me rattle on this way Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE VALLEY OF DEATH (4-25-86), by RON SCHREIBER First Line: John didn't die, he hasn't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE VISIT, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only mother, who lost sixty pounds, tried to stand up in the bathroom Subject(s): Mothers; Illness THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EUTHANASIA (WRITTEN AFTER LONG ILLNESS), by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring to the world, and strength to me, returns Last Line: A finer fervor trembles on its face. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Euthanasia; Sickness; Travel; Illness; Journeys; Trips THE WEE SHOP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking Last Line: She coughs a lot -- she hasn't long to live. Subject(s): Paris, France; Sickness; Illness THE WORK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, this moment, speechlessly in pain, Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Hospitals THERE WAS A MAN AND HE WAS MAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And there he cut his nose off / and flung it at the people Subject(s): Insanity;noses; Madness;mental Illness THIRD PERSON NEUTER, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 1. INTELLECTUAL POWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thought! O memory! Gems for ever heaping Last Line: Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Reason; Sickness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 2. SICKNESS LIKE NIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art like night, o sickness! Last Line: Before whose touch my soul unfolds itself to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 3. RETZSCH'S DESIGN OF THE ANGELS OF DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well might thine awful image thus arise Last Line: So fast around my soul, it cannot spring to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 4. REMEMBRANCE OF NATURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nature! Thou didst rear me for thine own Last Line: To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstained. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 5. FLIGHT OF THE SPIRIT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, oh! Whither wilt thou wing thy way? Last Line: Knowing but this -- that thou shalt find thy guide! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 6. FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o pure and lovely forms, again Last Line: Whether the couch be that of life or death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 7. RECOVERY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back, then, once more to breast the waves of life Last Line: Wafting sweet airs of heaven thro' this low world obscure. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TIARA, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: But ask for it? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators 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 A FRIEND (CHAFING AT ENFORCED IDLENESS FROM INTERRUPTED HEALTH), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon may the edict lapse, that on you lays Last Line: And life a tragedy of errors made. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A FRIEND, WHO SENT ME FLOWERS, WHEN CONFINED BY ILLNESS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sickness still my step detains Last Line: Shall soften half the winter's gloom! Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Sickness; Illness TO A LADY IN ILLNESS, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New to the world, when all was fairy ground Last Line: Thy beauty deeply is engraven there. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A LADY RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life plucks thee back as by the golden hair Last Line: Ev'n such a prey as thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A LADY RECOVERING FROM SICKNESS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is a charm in the pallid cheek Last Line: And soft as the breathing of sorrow's sigh. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A RESIDENT FLU FAMILY, by HOWARD DIETZ Poem Text First Line: Little pneumococci, / tiny germy things Last Line: Out and slam the door! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A SICK FRIEND, by HANNAH WALLIS Poem Text First Line: Dear girl, you're growing very thin Last Line: Than longer living here. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A YOUNG LADY, WHOSE MOTHER WAS INSANE FROM HER BIRTH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And thou hast never, never known Last Line: Than thus to see them languish. Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers; Madness; Mental Illness TO ANTHEA (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick is anthea, sickly in the spring Last Line: Each bending then, will rise a proper flower. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness 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 F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You call me mad tis folly to do so Last Line: If you do not you are but what you was Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Insanity; Mythology; Madness; Mental Illness TO MARY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twentieth year is well nigh past, / since first our sky was overcast Last Line: My mary! Variant Title(s): My Mary;to The Same (mary Unwin) Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sickness; Unwin, Mary; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness TO MISTRESS KATHERNE NEVILLE, ON HER GREEN SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White innocence, that now lies spread Last Line: I in your heart, he in your face. Subject(s): Illness TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY DEAR MOTHER IN SICKNESS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Hang not thy harp upon the willow Last Line: There's calm and peace beyond the grave. Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Sickness; Paradise; Illness TO ONE IN BEDLAM, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars Last Line: The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours! Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness TO SICKNESS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, disease, dost thou molest Last Line: None but them, and leave the rest. Subject(s): Sickness; Small Pox; Illness TO SLEEP, WHEN SICK OF A FEVER, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are we who when our senses tire Last Line: Whom none could e'er but with clos'd eyelids see. Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness TO THE BARDO, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I finally got through to c on the phone Subject(s): Illness TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the letter I wrote Last Line: That's my work in life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TOM O' BEDLAM'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From the hagg and hungrie goblin Last Line: "yet will I sing, etc." Variant Title(s): Loving Mad Tom Subject(s): Insanity;night; Madness;mental Illness;bedtime TOM THE LUNATIC, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sand old tom the lunatic Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TUBES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, down, good, bad, said Subject(s): Illness TUNNEL, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, if ever. / when it is raining this gentle Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWILIGHT VOICES (IN ILLNESS), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the whispering voices Last Line: In the early, early morn. Subject(s): Evening; Sickness; Sunset; Twilight; Illness TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Variant Title(s): Farewell Performance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness UN CHANT D'AMOUR', by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before you - / at the movies Last Line: Of a busy village street Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992); Illness UNALTERED BY SICKNESS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, in vain thou dost invade Last Line: For what's her beauty, is our fate. Subject(s): Love; Sickness; Illness UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 13. TO H. F. BROWN (WRITTEN DURING A ... SICKNESS), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and wait a pair of oars Last Line: Light at your pipe my cigarette. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Sickness; Illness UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 26. THE SICK CHILD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, lay your hand on my brow! Last Line: And dream of the birds and the hills of sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness UNITS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the pain you could fit in a tea ball. Subject(s): Illness UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bear that breaths the northern blast Last Line: And heavenly musick, furr'd with praise. Variant Title(s): Upon A Wasp Child With Cold Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Sickness; Wasps; Illness; Yellow Jackets UPON JULIA'S RECOVERY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droop, droop no more, or hang the head Last Line: As beames of corrall, but more cleare. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness UPON MY FATHERS SUDDEN & DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Though sad this lesson be to me Last Line: Deaths ev'n shall be the dawn of life to me. Subject(s): Fathers; Grief; Mortality; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness UPON PRUDENCE BALDWIN HER SICKNESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prue, my dearest maid, is sick Last Line: Offer'd up by her, to thee. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness UPON THE KING'S SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, the minister of death, doth lay Last Line: Shows a good king is sick, and good men mourn. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sickness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Illness UPON THE SICKNESS OF ELIZABETH SHELDON, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must she then languish, and we sorrow thus Last Line: Convey into his hand thy golden dart. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness UPON TOM CAREW HAVING THE POX, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Troth, tom, I must confess I much admire Last Line: For evermore the water runs away. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness 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 ON THE RECOVERY OF A. M. G. FROM A SEVERE ILLNESS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden in the arms of death Last Line: And closed the opening grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Faith; God; Healing; Prayer; Sickness; Belief; Creed; Cures; Illness VICTORIA (ON LEARNING THAT THE QUEEN'S CONDITION WAS HOPELESS), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her reign: the greatest that this realm hath seen Last Line: Than hers, so bravely borne! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sickness; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Illness VIEWPOINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When dante in old florence walked the / street Last Line: "whispered with laughter, ""yon's a crazy man!" Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness VIGIL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flower/then the flower Subject(s): Mothers; Illness; Flowers VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house of bedlam Last Line: That lies in the house of bedlam Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WAITING IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reflect on my son's crying [or, on this desperate note] Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Sickness; Childhood; Illness WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad are mad for cigarettes Last Line: Murder to out; when women crack sex Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WAKING IN THE BLUE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night attendant, a b. U. Sophomore Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Waking In The Blue Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WASTE NOT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're using every bit of your death Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WAX FATHER, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb Last Line: His entire body hung there Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has / an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness; Illness WHAT LITTLE SAUL GOT, CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us parents mostly thinks our own's Last Line: "I'm got the pleurisy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; Illness WHILE GETTING WELL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sits on my window-sill Last Line: I think he understands! Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Sleep; Childhood; Illness WIDOW BEDOTT TO ELDER SNIFFLER, by FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER Poem Text First Line: O reverend sir, I do declare Last Line: Priscilla pool bedott. Subject(s): Sickness; Women; Illness WILD FLOWERS GATHERED FOR A SICK FRIEND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from the dells were ye first were born Last Line: Is health to the bosom on which ye die. Subject(s): Flowers; Sickness; Illness WILLI, HOME; IN MEMORY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just before sleep, this: a bright Last Line: Brave. Tall. Home. Deep. Blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WILLIAM HOUSE AND FAMILY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all kind friends, both far and near Last Line: God bless his soul forever more. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WINTER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a gray aftertoon, blank as to freeze Subject(s): Winter; Sickness; Illness WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness WITCH BURNING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WORDS IN THE VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, too Subject(s): Insanity; Poetry & Poets; Madness; Mental Illness WRITTEN AFTER RECOVERY FROM A DANGEROUS ILLNESS, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: Lo! O'er the earth the kindling spirits Last Line: Ethereal dew to glad the earth with showers. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN A FIT OF ILLNESS; R.S.S., by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these sad hours, a prey to ceaseless pain Last Line: Hope, joy, and peace, and delia in her train! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH, by ANNA MARIA SMALLPIECE Poem Text First Line: Ah! What avails, when sinking down to sleep Last Line: Were her full eye, and sparkling luster mine. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Where are the tearful smiles of youthful spring Last Line: Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Sickness; Spring; Illness WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: My bark floats on the sea of death Last Line: Farewell, my native world! Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness WRITTEN IN SICKNESS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear in youth the sad infirmities Last Line: And bid each awful muse drive the damned harpies hence. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy lowering of the sky Last Line: Twas still thy lot -- to bloom and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DELIRIUM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion Last Line: Buried above ground. Variant Title(s): Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity;lines Written Under The Influence Of Delirium Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (1), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (2), by JEAN VALENTINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earthblue eye of the boatpond smiled at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fingers lie in the lap Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology YOUR LIFE, by RON SCHREIBER First Line: Right now it's all I care about Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness |
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