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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MADNESS Matches Found: 100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology |
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