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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INSANITY Matches Found: 231 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 302 ARREST WARRANT, by ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH Poem Source First Line: The first thing she does is pour cereal for Last Line: The skin on her face reverberates in bass. You can really hear it Subject(s): Insanity; Office Employees 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 LATTER-DAY SAINT, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray old man, with a descending beard Last Line: Giving the law, like zeno or zamolxis. Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Insanity; Beards A LIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem 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 AFTER VISITING A HOME FOR DISTURBED CHILDREN, by LOU LIPSITZ Poem Source First Line: Broken lamps! %their faces shine with a destroyed light Last Line: And bits of light shine out of the dark, %intense, searching%like the eyes of a girl who is buried a Subject(s): Insanity 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 ALL THAT TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After the killing, tommy antrim Last Line: Assassinating his ears Subject(s): Aging; Insanity; Murder ANOTHER POEM ABOUT THE MADNESS OF WOMEN, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: It began as a joke: she did not like to leave the house Last Line: She knows there is a woman in each one Subject(s): Insanity; Women ART OF THE INSANE, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: The good doctor prinzhorn says it was the patent Last Line: We are wind gone. We are kingdom come Subject(s): Art And Artists; Insanity ASYLUM, by RICK CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: The asylum was in the most hotly contested area of bien-hoa province Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers; Vietnam ASYLUM OPHELIA: SURREY, 1848, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: By day, I sort colored beans Last Line: In the fierce swinging arms of waves Subject(s): Insanity; Surrey, England BACK WARD, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Miss pittipat wears eight gowns Last Line: As regular as good morning Subject(s): Insanity BEANS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I weren't a stranger to myself, he said Last Line: Hell, o, let me not spill the beans Subject(s): Fear; Home; Insanity; Solitude; Strangers BOGY MAN, by FREDERICK MUNDLE Poem Source First Line: She knows I know Last Line: That's left of me in her is fear Subject(s): Fear; Imagination; Insanity BRIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sunlight on the cathedral Last Line: Looking at this? Subject(s): Churches; Insanity; Light; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) BUSHED, by CHARLES LILLARD Poem Source First Line: This morning we found him Last Line: From nowhere to nowhere across %our faces that lonely stunned look Subject(s): Insanity BUTCH IS BACK, by EARL GENE BOX Poem Source First Line: You went away %and came back Subject(s): Insanity; Prisons And Prisoners CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 2. SOLITUDE, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: And now, a child, there on the floor, quiet Last Line: Eyes watering, lips wondering: 'jesus.' Subject(s): Children; Insanity CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 3. WHITENESS, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: Closer to gods I enter my limp, carefully Last Line: Rat-bloodied hand, like my sacred heart Subject(s): Heaven; Insanity CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 4. ON THE ALBINO FARM, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: The artisans assume their human shape Last Line: They eat. They burn. They harbor all the deaf Subject(s): Insanity CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 5. FIRST LIGHT, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: Smoke travels from a burning house Last Line: Not dark but lusterless, and deep Subject(s): Fire; Insanity CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 6. DER ERLKONIG, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: I see you now, lit by my body: evening's Last Line: Saintlike and febrile at dusk Subject(s): Insanity CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 7. TO THE BODY, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: It is you they want. We have never been Last Line: Be puncture and breath, and you will like that Subject(s): Bodies; Insanity CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 8. THAT THE NIGHT PLEASE US, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: Tha'ts when I woke into the dark white owls Last Line: Rising, a sound in the crowd of the dark Subject(s): Insanity; Night CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 9. ICH WILL EIN REITER WERDEN, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: The more you see, the more you will return Last Line: Of night: black hurrying hooves Subject(s): Insanity; Memory CERTAIN ASYMMETRY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The tiny schizophrenic had a certain asymmetry to her face Last Line: Life, I tell myself, can't be trusted Subject(s): Death; Insanity CHILD SUPPER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I am packing your things again Last Line: I have never been your child Subject(s): Daughters; Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers And Daughters 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 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 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 COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one was put in a jacket Last Line: And cried and cried no no no no %all day long Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest CRAZY CHRISTOPHER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbored by a maple wood Last Line: That could half believe him wise. Subject(s): Solitude; Human Behavior; Insanity; Wisdom CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source 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 CRAZY QUILT, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Applique, a tree of life behind her eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Insanity; Life CRAZY TENANT, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He drags his feet on the floor till the day breaks Last Line: Shrieks and barks like a dog who has swallowed %a living chicken Subject(s): Insanity DAILIES: TOO MUCH POETRY NOT ENOUGH SNOW, by TIM DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I'll take mental heath refugee with Last Line: Now is the winter of our content Subject(s): Insanity; Winter DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back on medication / he takes inventory Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back on medication %he takes inventory Last Line: I love the sun %in this room, %cold, cold, hot, hot Subject(s): Insanity DISADVANTAGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Any man who has not had Last Line: The sudden, sourceless ferocities %of a lover's rage Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Anger; Insanity DIVISION, by JOHN RATTI Poem Source First Line: During the winter she began Last Line: Out and could hear each color they said Subject(s): Insanity 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 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 ENOUGH, by IRENE SHERLOCK Poem Source First Line: I like to cut circles out of wax paper Last Line: Isn't it enough the cake rose today? Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Insanity; Learning ENVOI: MANIC DEPRESSION IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: See bill in big sur, about to quaff Last Line: Into a nest of rattlesnakes.' Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity EVENING IN THE SANITARIUM, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem 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 IN THE SANITARIUM, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The free evening fades, outside windows fastened with decorative iron grilles Last Line: Miss r. Looks at the mantel-piece, which must mean something Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity EVERY STEP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cold, at the edges of the flesh, the stranger Last Line: And with every step he takes, home changes. Subject(s): Home; Insanity; Strangers EXPERT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He scratches, giggles, sneers, looks, looks away Last Line: Again and he smells the bed where his mother bleeds Subject(s): Blood; Insanity; Mothers And Sons FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was no other place Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was no other place Last Line: Those I loved best died of it - %the fool's disease Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion FOR SILVIA, MY DAUGHTER, CHICAGO READ MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: There is a plain cruelty of light Last Line: Her grief has turned hard as amber Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers And Daughters FOR THE MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem 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 FOR THE MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be alone at last Last Line: You will not be better but %they will say you are well Subject(s): Anger; Insanity FRANK SINATRA, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love to listen to men in bars, %the lonely drinkers Last Line: Where frank sinatra sang %only for them Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Insanity; Marriage; Men; Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998); Singing And Singers GENERAL PARESIS, by LOUIS J. KARNOSH Poem Source First Line: A mental tapestry I spin Subject(s): Insanity; Physicians 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 GOD IS A COWBOY WHO RIDES A LAME HORSE, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Burroughs fondled me in the store's back room Last Line: Recuperate my straggling hair, my breached life Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Jealousy; Justice; Murder; Trials; Unfaithfulness 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 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 HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Last Line: Had cut deep bloody grooves %across our backs Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons And Prisoners; Surgery HATTERS, by NAN MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: The hut in the bush of bark or rusty tin Subject(s): Insanity HEARD IN A VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, too, %you'd be institutionalized Last Line: And that sweet man, john clare Subject(s): Insanity; Poetry And Poets IDIOT, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So what if he tears off a dog's head Last Line: Twin with the weird eyes Subject(s): Children; Insanity IN A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem 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 A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark time, the eye begins to see Last Line: And one is one, free in the tearing wind Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Night IN A RACK OF PAIN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: This morning ora was secluded Last Line: But it's a long way to go for a cigarette Subject(s): Insanity; Pain IN THE DAYROOM, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: There's a squabble over which rocker is whose. Every time any- Last Line: Enough hallelujahs in here without heads hitting the floor, too Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity IN THE MADHOUSE, by MARILYN HORTON-BARRIOS Poem Source First Line: I carry bits of twig Last Line: That I gathered %when I could fly Subject(s): Insanity; Language 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 INEXPLICABLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To look suddenly at eyes Last Line: Shifting havoc through my head. Subject(s): Eyes; Gratitude; Insanity 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 INVISIBLE WOMAN, by ROBIN MORGAN Poem Source First Line: The invisible woman in the asylum corridor Last Line: Only the strong can know that Subject(s): Insanity JACARANDA, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He was addicted to the tree. No one had ever loved a tree Last Line: Girl. But mostly he would dream he was being stalked by an %arrogant psychiatrist Subject(s): Insanity; Psychiatry KING ME, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin opened the drawstring Last Line: Don't you have anything to say?' Subject(s): Insanity 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 LAST ON EARTH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem 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 LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem 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 LETTER FROM A STATE HOSPITAL, by FRANK MUNDORF Poem Source First Line: Have you noticed the docile appeal Subject(s): Insanity LOWCOUP, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem 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 LOWCOUP, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Craziness is no %act Last Line: Not to %act %is crazinezz Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Insanity 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My madness is dear to me Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD SONG, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My madness is dear to me Subject(s): Insanity MAD SONG, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black toad on the white ground indubitably stares at me with Last Line: Madwomen on the dune in the moonlight Subject(s): Insanity MAD TALK, by KAREN APPEL Poem Source First Line: Mad is mad Last Line: Mad mad mad Subject(s): Cobra Artists; Insanity 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 MAD TOM'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the hag and hungry goblin Last Line: And I will love beneath or above %the dirty earth that hides her Subject(s): Insanity MAD WANDERER; A BALLAD, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came to grasmere's pleasant vale Last Line: And with that dreadful groan expired Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Insanity 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 MADMAN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a murky and disturbing afternoon Last Line: The terrible wisdom, of the idiot Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN, by LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG Poem Source First Line: I think I'll do a fearful deed Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN GOES TO A PARTY, by RICHARD LOURIE Poem Source First Line: First I ritual %myself (naked) clean as fire Last Line: Then I'll say 'how's your new lover?' Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN IN SOLITARY, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds suggested themselves Last Line: Swallowed a vital thread of my dreams; %I beat my pregnant head for the wise child Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN IN TREATMENT, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On thorazine constellations go Last Line: As I lie awake in the day, afraid of dreams. %there's a blue-hot fire in my soul Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN LOOKS AT HIS FORTUNE, by RICHARD LOURIE Poem Source First Line: The radiator knocked and hissed Last Line: Is only a sweet smell Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN'S RESUME, by TOM HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Left to his wits Subject(s): Insanity MADMAN'S SONG, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have not seen what I have seen Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Insanity MADNESS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Deranged, %with mistry litanies she Last Line: Everything is water. %wild. %alive Subject(s): Insanity MADNESS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem 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, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay in the house mostly living Last Line: With freedom saying bringing %help help madness help Subject(s): Insanity MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE, by JASON SHINDER Poem 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 MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town Last Line: Do not move me. I buy some tea and cookies, %talk to no one Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itsel Subject(s): Insanity; Summer MAJESKI PLAYS THE SAXOPHONE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He killed his parents Last Line: And forced out the mouth, %jazz Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Insanity; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones MANIA, by MARY WINTERS Poem Source First Line: I was forced to give up reading because I couldn't stop Last Line: I am rebuilding my life a day at a time Subject(s): Books; Insanity MANIAC, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' grief had nipp'd her early bloom Subject(s): Insanity 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 MARY TODD ON HER DEATHBED, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: I can hear them, choking on spoons, screaming Last Line: In my handmade girlhood hoop-skirt snapping Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MASTERPIECE OF PROPHYLACTICS (SCHIZOPHRENIC), by ISHLE YI PARK Poem Source First Line: Socks a field of blue and white...Like that chess game you home-made at the Last Line: It is their very nature to trust plastic Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Reason MAYBE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MADNESS, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Read it to me quietly, quietly Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Conscience; Human Rights; Insanity MAZORRA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of shock treatment Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MEETING AND A MEMORY, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: And you are 'mad' poor friend? Aye, so we say Subject(s): Insanity; Physicians MENTAL, by WILLIAM KULIK Poem Source First Line: The maple's twisted branch Last Line: At the end of his endless life Subject(s): Death; Insanity 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 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 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 PATIENT MAULED BY POLAR BEAR IN VILAS PARK ZOO, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Father stood in the doorway Last Line: And I taste iron in my mouth %and my feet grow wings Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers; Insanity MENTAL-HEALTH WORKERS, by JAMES TATE Poem 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 MENTAL-HEALTH WORKERS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly we were able to ignore the hairy thing Last Line: There anymore, not lost but gone before Subject(s): Insanity; Labor And Laborers MERGER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two things, merging, seem Last Line: Reason when you write. Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Writing And Writers MISS DRAKE PROCEEDS TG SUPPER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem 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 MODERN ENDYMION, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You! %you stealing violets where the snail-tracks glisten Subject(s): Insanity MOMMY IS A SCARY NARCISSIST, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: C'mon, I shouldn't need to mention blepharoplasty Last Line: Candlelight so soft on all her faces! %hide! %run! Subject(s): Insanity 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 MORNING ROUNDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mrs. A touches the walls Last Line: You are so strong %just like my mother Subject(s): Insanity MUCH MADNESS IS DIVINEST SENSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And handled with a chain Subject(s): Insanity MY DAUGHTER'S MATTRESS, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My daughter disappeared three years ago. She has been in Last Line: Shake out the scrap rugs on the floor. I keep putting things away Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers And Daughters NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem 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 NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Last Line: And the dandelion is gall in a thin green pipe, %but the clover is honey and sun and the smell of sl Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion NEWBERRY CHAIR, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: When he says, 'sit,' I do, because Last Line: Carved out, at last, for me Subject(s): Insanity NOTE IN A SANITORIUM, by RAY AMOROSI Poem Source First Line: After he sledged wife the man %sliced his hand off in factory meat cutter Last Line: The mistake out with my stump %blue halo. Me. No hand, no wife, no song Subject(s): Insanity OH WHAT A WRECK! HOW CHANGED IN MIEN AND SPEECH!, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In them—in her our sins and sorrows past Subject(s): Insanity 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, by MICHAEL COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Today I'll paint some places outside my room Subject(s): Insanity ON A PAINTING BY PATIENT B OF INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem 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 PAINTING BY PATIENT B OF INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These seven houses have learned to face one another Last Line: Not public like mountains' but private like companions Subject(s): Insanity 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 OTHER WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who turns in the street Last Line: I never lie Subject(s): Cities; Insanity OUTING, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Then there was the day I took them to the zoo Last Line: And presenting me with a rose-colored t-shirt %that said we're all crazy about you! Subject(s): Insanity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships 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 PLAYING PINOCHLE AT LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: In the distinct, harsh days Last Line: Here are the exulting, monstrous translations %of the night Subject(s): Card Games; Hospitals; Insanity PRIEST AND PEASANT, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are ill, davies, ill in mind Last Line: And seal my lips as job's were sealed %imperiously in the old days Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Insanity PROM NIGHT AT GROSSE POINTE HIGH AND LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The boys wear tuxedos Last Line: You're a sweet girl,' he says Subject(s): Insanity; Proms; Youth 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 RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem 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 RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way they ring Last Line: They tell you to go. And you do Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; God; Insanity; Religion RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem 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 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 SCHIZOPHRENIC, by EDWARD K. MICUS Poem Source First Line: Split? Like a chromosome Last Line: It tells the others to never love me Subject(s): Insanity SEELE IN RAUM, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sat between my husband and my children Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness SEELE IN RAUM, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sat between my husband and my children Last Line: Rich with a kind of longing satisfaction: %'to own an eland ! That's what I call life!' Subject(s): Insanity SEIZURE RHAPSODY, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: A seizure is the body's tantrum Last Line: Like the phosphorus zeroes %of the air Subject(s): Insanity SELF-AUTOPSY OF A CRAZED MAN, by WILLIAM JAMES KING Poem Source First Line: I was living through a breakdown Last Line: Too many others to bleed Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Insanity; Psychoanalysis 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 SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON THE HISTORY OF MADNESS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It all began in water Last Line: Fluttering near time's fierce cat Subject(s): Faith; Insanity SOLEDAD POEMS: ROAD TO THE YELLOW PRISON, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Are you going %to souldead tonight?' Last Line: Of stone maggots %for teeth Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SOMEWHAT DISTURBED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He knows damn well he's not afraid Last Line: To be out of his mind Subject(s): Fear; Insanity; Nudity; Silence 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 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 SPARROW BONES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem 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 STATE OF THE UNION: 8. A PARABLE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the road outside a convent Last Line: To him by hand of the insane Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Insanity STOCKTON STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL, 1962, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source First Line: Shirley standing on the table Last Line: Her beasts hurt when I touched them Subject(s): Insanity STONEHENGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning he'd anoint the room's four corners Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness STONEHENGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning he'd anoint the room's four corners Last Line: A pyramid roof, and a real smoking chimney Subject(s): Insanity 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 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men; Madness; Mental Illness SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Last Line: And trying with almost no success %to bring the present to its mouth Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men SWEETIE AT LEICESTER COURT, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Up woodward on leicester court Last Line: She tells me: 'you were never crazy, just %too much alone.' Subject(s): Comfort; Insanity; Relationships; Solitude 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 TAP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man beating the drum learned rhythm Last Line: Makes tribal dancing other than you might think Subject(s): Drums; Insanity; Musical Instruments; Race Awareness 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 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 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 BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem 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 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 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 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 LOCKED WARD: O.T., by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poster paints, big brushes Last Line: Sir … none Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers 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 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 PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN, by MARVIN BELL Poem 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 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 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 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 THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING MY SCHIZOPHRENIC NEIGHBOR TO THE LIQUOR STORE, by CALEB WHITAKER Poem Source First Line: He drew a picture of the machine Last Line: Those are my thoughts exactly %give them back Subject(s): Insanity 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 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 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 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 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 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 TROPICAL DELIRIUM, by RAYMOND FARINA Poem Source First Line: We are having tea Last Line: Insists again %late in the day Subject(s): Insanity TWILIGHT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm the crazy girl you've been looking for. I'm the one on the phone that Last Line: Think I was a princess because my blood was blue. See? Subject(s): Insanity; Self-criticism; Self-hate VIETNAMESE GIRL IN THE MADHOUSE, by DAVID FISHER Poem Source First Line: Someone's youngest daughter %has lost her mind, there is Last Line: Is she ever silent, can she ever be silent, %and we are too poor for her madness Subject(s): Insanity 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 VISITORS' PARKING, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: O mary mary lying on the wheel Last Line: Are off them what's the difference? Subject(s): Insanity VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem 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 VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source 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 WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem 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 WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source 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 WAKING IN THE BLUE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem 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 WAKING IN THE BLUE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night attendant, a b. U. Sophomore Last Line: Each of us holds a locked razor Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Waking In The Blu Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity WANTING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the sickness struck, the words died Last Line: Or fling it all to the mad, vicious winds of god. Subject(s): Insanity WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called itwar! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WHAT REWARD?, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave your life, boy Last Line: O god, for such a sacrifice %say, what reward for him? Subject(s): Insanity; Women; World War I WHEN THE EVENING LIGHT BURNS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And I begin to dream with %my photo Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Insanity; Love; Memory WITCH BURNING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, too Subject(s): Insanity; Poetry & Poets; Madness; Mental 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 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 YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Last Line: Waiting on the silent shelf Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion |
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