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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 104 FAHRENHEIT, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight I lay with fever in my veins
Subject(s): Physicians


19332, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: First at breakfast, now next to me
Last Line: Two men behind me playing steel drums
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


A CENTO MADE BY WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throned in the sun's descending car
Last Line: Favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.]
Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Beattie, James (1735-1803); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Doctors


A DOCTOR'S CENTURY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A doctor's century dead and gone!
Last Line: And to the past a glad good-night.
Subject(s): Healing; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Cures; Doctors


A PROGNOSTICK, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As many lawes and lawyers do expresse
Last Line: Store of diseases, where physitians flow.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


A SENTIMENT (2), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A triple health to friendship, science, art
Last Line: And soothes the pang no anodyne may calm!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison
Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


ABOUT HER & ABOUT HIM, by MIRIAM OREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's going to the negev
Last Line: The preoccupied stars in distant skies
Subject(s): Israel; Physicians


ABUSED CHILD, by MICHAEL O'REILLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You dreamt of being a dancer, but frightened
Last Line: The snowflake fell %the batik hung
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


AESCULAPIANS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All during my prostatectomy
Last Line: Question you in his quiet voice
Subject(s): Physicians


AIR RAID, by JOHN ALLEN WYETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reading, at night, the shutter closed and barred
Subject(s): Physicians


ALCOHOLIC GOBLINS, by THOMAS JEFFERSON SAVAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas on a night not long gone by
Subject(s): Physicians


AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways
Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too.
Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors


ANATOMY LESSON, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I move your body %from its storage drawer
Last Line: Filling your stream, %touching the blossoms
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ANATOMYE, SELS., by JOHN+(1) HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: But chieflye the anatomye %ye oughte to understande
Subject(s): Physicians


ANNIVERSARY, by RONALD ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now twenty years ago
Subject(s): Physicians


ANOREXIA, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not everyone is so skilled
Last Line: Biting at her unfeathered heels
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ANTICIPATIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS, SELS., by SAMUEL BARTLETT PARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go to the sick man's bedside - mark how dim
Subject(s): Physicians


ANYWAY, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A week before I was admitted here
Last Line: About that painting when carol %walked by
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


APPLE CORES, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suppose, just suppose, you're shown
Last Line: Translucent, dazzling, and dangerous?
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


APRIL ELMS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jazzed by april's burgeoning mercury
Last Line: I found one %pressed to your thigh
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ARMY OF DESPAIR, by JOHN CHALMERS DACOSTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He died alone; in all this mighty city
Subject(s): Physicians


ART OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN, SELS., by SCEVOLA DE SAINTE-MARTHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas a sage said it, and the saying's good
Subject(s): Physicians


AS THEY FELL, by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a maniac's frozen form
Subject(s): Physicians


AT SEVENTY-TWO, SELS., by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis nearly over; in this darkening hour
Subject(s): Physicians


AUTOPSY, by JAMES L. FOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It comes as a surprise once more
Last Line: Rain, a petal or two
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


AY, IF A MADMAN COULD HAVE LEAVE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Physicians


AZALEA POEM, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hope I handed alfred
Last Line: Azalea bloom. And I said, yes
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BABY MADE OF FLOWERS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close to term, as poppies bloomed
Last Line: Slowly filling with flowers
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BACCHUS IN TUSCANY, SELS., by FRANCESCO REDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh how widely wandereth he
Subject(s): Physicians


BALLADE OF BUSY DOCTORS, by JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When winter pipes in the poplar tree
Subject(s): Physicians


BANNER HOPES, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Banner hopes, and the dusk edges along the wall
Last Line: Awhile. I like its sucking sound
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BASS, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I was 37 and he was 10
Last Line: How hungry %how shining
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BEFORE A CORPSE, by MANUEL ACUNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so! Already here thou art upon the table
Subject(s): Physicians; Transience


BEFORE A CORPSE, by MANUEL ACUNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well! There you lie already...On the board
Last Line: Matter immortal as glory, is endowed %with other semblances,but never dies
Subject(s): Physicians; Transience


BEFORE PENICILLIN, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doctor steps into the room
Last Line: On her fragrant, inculpable neck
Subject(s): Death - Children; Labor And Laborers; Physicians


BEFORE THAT, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Synesthesia, metaplasia. Before that
Last Line: Hey everybody, just do the hop
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BEFORE THE BRAIN SURGERY, by PAULA TATARUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We'd moved out. You'd stayed behind alone
Last Line: Suspended over something swift and deep
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BELOVED PHYSICIAN (FRAGMENTS), by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pulse beats ten and intermits
Last Line: The faithful heart yields no repose
Subject(s): Physicians


BESSIE BROWN, M.D, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas april when she came to town
Last Line: Unless -- I wed the doctor!
Subject(s): Physicians; Women; Doctors


BIO 7, by DAVID MOOLTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year of their ultimate squalor
Last Line: They'd made, even as the cutting had begun
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BIRTH, by GEORGE BURT LAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Warm mist and the fitful dripping of sodden eaves
Subject(s): Physicians


BIRTH OF FLOWERS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine the shock
Last Line: And a new world bloomed
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BLACK NARCISSUS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her arms swimming in the languid
Last Line: Begin, before any of them can be lost
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BLACKBIRD IN THE TOWN, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here behind the huddled houses
Subject(s): Physicians


BLUE HAT, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doppler was negative, I said
Last Line: It dropped, as if a bird had been shot
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BODY OF MAN, by CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ribbed breathing flesh, thrice often crucified
Subject(s): Physicians


BOY WHO PLAYED WITH DOLLS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remembers the family photograph
Last Line: You weren't a sissy, you were practicing %to be a doctor
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BRANDY STATION, VIRGINIA, by DAVID MOOLTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few miles from here, they've unearthed
Last Line: If it was ever holy or just wood, %like the tall planks christ was laid on
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BREATH, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Called late to your bedside
Last Line: From your shining head
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BREATHING-SPOONS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breathing-spoons. That's what my grandmother
Last Line: With a veil. You're so elegant, she says
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BROKEN SILENCE, by LOUIS M. ABBEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty-five years ago I lied
Last Line: The only sound in the world
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


BUTTERFLY, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I desire to say something explicit
Last Line: Am I explicit?
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI, by LISA BESKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As one piece of machine knoweth another
Last Line: Of some defeated tribe
Subject(s): Physicians


CALCIUM, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sort it out, folks, simplify. Now imagine yourself
Last Line: His arms and torso into a strange and wonderful shape
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CANDOR, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At eight years old, his cancer running rampage
Last Line: Tell you to pick up after yourself
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CAPT. SALLY TOMPKINS, C.S.A, by BEVERLY RANDOLPH TUCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A clock has struck! A life has paid the cost
Subject(s): American Civil War; Physicians; U.s. - History


CAPTIVE, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Captive woman behind the bar
Subject(s): Physicians


CARMELITA, by D. A. FEINFELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time I see
Last Line: After your luckies were spent
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You, student, whistling those elusive bits
Last Line: Scrapes, scrapes the windowpane
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first it seems random, this leaving
Last Line: In search of another vacancy
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CHAPEL, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a chapel downstairs. I passed it twice
Last Line: What harm is there to accept his prayer? I could borrow %his god for a while
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CHEST X-RAY, by PAULA TATARUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She adjusts my hip, spine, shoulder
Last Line: Of hiroshima and nagasaki
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CHIEF OF MEDICINE, by ARTHUR GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anton steiner sits behind a rosewood desk
Last Line: My future depends on it, that is all
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CHIMES, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It sounded like chimes. How else
Last Line: I am five, listening to its chimes: b'alma %di v'ra khir'utei, v'yamlikh malkhutei
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CHOICE, SELS., by BENJAMIN CHURCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: But to inform the mind and mend the heart
Subject(s): Physicians


CHRISTMAS, BELFAST, by ROBERT+(1) COLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waterford crystal smuggled from the republic into paisley's turf
Last Line: The kitchen warm with their cooking
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 1, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this must be a mouth
Last Line: Impossible words, look %at me
Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Surgery


CLINIC, by GRACE HERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She tells us she felt
Last Line: Runs ahead and takes her with it
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


COINCIDENTALLY, by FREDERIC W. PLATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wants me to hear the whole story
Last Line: Yes, I say %quite a coincidence
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


COMING HOME FROM THE UROLOGIST, by RICHARD LUFTIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The touch of finger
Last Line: Where membership is universal %and anything but free
Subject(s): Physicians


COMING HOME LATE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I latch the garage door, retrieve
Last Line: We washed our faces with snow
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


COMMUNAL LIVING, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were young and immortal
Last Line: Uncombed heads and laughed
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


COMPLAINT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They call me and I go
Last Line: With compassion.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


COMPLAINT OF THE LAD WITH HEART-DISEASE, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heart-disease
Last Line: Mamma, are you calling?
Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Physicians; Doctors


COMPRESSIONIST'S CREED, by NORMAN BETHUNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I believe in trudeau
Subject(s): Physicians


CONFABULATION, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Striding up to his bed, you
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CONSULTATION, by WILLIAM GREEN BROWNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In manner brusk, pompous in air and style
Subject(s): Physicians


COUNTRY DOCTOR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today, in that old junk-pile down the hill
Last Line: "how could you guess -- you never rode in one!"
Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Physicians; Doctors


COUSIN EUPHEMIA KNOWS BEST, OR PHYSICIAN, HEAL SOMEBODY ELSE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people don't want to be doctors because they think doctors have to work
Last Line: A hatpin in the left ventricle of the hearticle
Subject(s): Physicians


CRICKET, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They keep this place so clean. It's
Last Line: It's almost the only thing I can count on
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


CRYSTALS, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1845 dr. James marion sims had seen it many times
Last Line: As if his hand remained
Subject(s): Physicians; Reproductive System; Women


CURE OF MALARIA, by RONALD ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This day relenting god
Last Line: He sends the seeing sight; %and the right mind is his
Variant Title(s): In Exile; Repl
Subject(s): Physicians


D-DAY, 1994, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your arm is gone
Last Line: Their battles, which are almost used up %but still true
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


DA LEETLA DOCTOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: W'en I am beeg, says he
Last Line: "w'en I am beeg,"" says he."
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors


DAMIEN, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hardly a day goes by I don't think of him
Last Line: Like ragged lightning in the night sky
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


DANS LE PALAIS NOSTALGIQUE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This belgian spiegeltent has survived a century
Last Line: Leaving us ravished, our stomachs and hearts full
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


DAY STALIN DIED, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I leaned my weight against the mower
Last Line: And was planning a nonviolent protest in town
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


DE RERUM NATURA, SELS., by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A plague like this, a tempest big with fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Physicians


DEAF MEN, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deaf men live in a world divorced from sound
Subject(s): Physicians


DEATH, by JOHN BRUCE MACCALLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strong men have trembled at thy name o death
Subject(s): Physicians


DEATH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's dead %the dog won't have to
Last Line: Just bury it %and hide its face -- %for shame
Subject(s): Death; Physicians


DEATH - WHAT IS IT?, by JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a peaceful end of all desire
Subject(s): Physicians


DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK; A TRUE STORY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some books are lies frae end to end
Last Line: And sae did death.
Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors


DEATH BY AESTHETICS, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover
Subject(s): Physicians; Examinations; Women Patients; Doctors


DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I a man of gingerbread that you should mould me to your liking?
Last Line: The curtain falls.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Graves; Love; Physicians; Sleep; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Doctors


DEDICATED TO DR. HARVEY CUSHING, by TEMPLE FAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then came a man, some years awhile
Subject(s): Cushing, Harvey Williams (1869-1939); Physicians


DIAVOLINA, by FIELDING H. GARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The troubadour who plucks the oboe's strings
Subject(s): Physicians


DIED OF HIS WOUNDS, by HENRY HEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death set his mark and left a mangled thing
Subject(s): Physicians


DIET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If wholsome diet can re-cure a man
Last Line: What need of physick, or physitian?
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Health; Physicians; Doctors


DIRGE, by SAITO MOKICHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lacewing has lighted upon the wall
Subject(s): Physicians


DIRGE FOR THE LATE JAMES CURRIE, M.D., OF LIVERPOOL, by LUCY AIKEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speed on the night-wind's wing, my sighs
Last Line: The grave of parted worth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy
Subject(s): Currie, James (1756-1805); Physicians; Doctors


DISSECTING ROOM, by JOHN FALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When these were carried down the road no friends went on ahead
Subject(s): Physicians


DIVIDING THE DARK INTO PARCELS, by PATRICIA BARONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ones who stay awake all night
Last Line: Won't my mother %come
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Rooms; Sickness


DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town
Last Line: He's jes' a great, big, brainy man -- that's where the trouble lays!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors


DOCTOR, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Guilty, he does not always like his patients
Last Line: Tears from eyelashes of the daughter
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


DOCTOR, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There once was a doctor
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The patient cries, give me back feeling
Last Line: Avidly without pause
Variant Title(s): Resolution
Subject(s): Physicians; Wit & Humor


DOCTOR, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some two score years ago when I was young
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, by HOWARD LEVY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After days of healing
Last Line: To the wild chemistry of beauty
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, by CARL LINDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doctor is out
Last Line: Let us hope %the doctor is in
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, by STANLEY MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He smiles confidently because
Last Line: And it reminds me of something %I was once sure of
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, by ELYAS YUSOF NEZAMI GANJAVI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go find avicenna
Last Line: And a girl from samarqand %for my bed
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the doctor
Last Line: He gets well. He decides to grow up
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR -., by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rabbi told me: on the day allowed
Last Line: I tell it, as the rabbi told it me.
Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Hell; Physicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Doctors


DOCTOR BENSERADE, by E. ARNAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A youth, to lose his treasured love afraid
Last Line: And but one single patient yet have had.'
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


DOCTOR EMILY, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her room, bare of all beauty
Last Line: "I am coming, little one."
Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors


DOCTOR FEEL-GOOD, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He's a laughing buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Physicians; Physicians; Doctors; Doctors


DOCTOR FEEL-GOOD, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He's a laughing buddha
Last Line: & says only a pretty smile %assures margins of profit
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR FROLIC, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors


DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres
Last Line: Of craniological gall.
Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors


DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With wondrous skill
Last Line: The sufferer that takes it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


DOCTOR TYPE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lives thirteen floors above and runs a practice
Last Line: The wound that aches at dusk, by dawn %will be gone
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Physicians; Sickness


DOCTOR [OR DOCTUER] HILAIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: A stranger might say if he see heem drink till he almos' fall
Last Line: It's very bad case is waitin', doctor hilaire's de man.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


DOCTOR'S DREAM, SELS., by WILLIAM SNOWDEN BATTLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a dream, and in that dream
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR'S DUTY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could I know in all my lifetime
Last Line: And -- deity!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


DOCTOR'S LIFE, SELS., by ISAAC N. HIMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly, slowly, slowly we oxidize!
Subject(s): Physicians


DOCTOR, SELS., by GEORGE W. CALDWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When one is wounded in the strife
Subject(s): Physicians


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 DIFFER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When willis of ephraim heard rochester preach
Last Line: We preach very sadly, if he preaches well.
Subject(s): Physicians; Prayer; Sermons; Doctors


DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands
Last Line: This story to the coroner.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology


DON'T CUT THE STRING, by GEORGE DAVID STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crisp laconic words of wisdom
Subject(s): Physicians


DOUBLE MAGNOLIA, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sprouting up from the crushed
Last Line: With their net of nectar
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


DR. JONSON'S PICTURE COW, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Got a sliver in my hand
Last Line: Picture cows could kick at you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Cows; Physicians; Doctors


DRAGONS, by EDWARD LOVELLE STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jenner, pasteur, koch and yersin
Subject(s): Physicians


DROWNING, by JOHN RANSOM PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He should be walking in the clear moonlight
Subject(s): Physicians


DYING BEAUTY, SELS., by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She died in meekness, like the noiseless lamb
Subject(s): Physicians


DYNAMIZER AND THE OSCILLOCLAST, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the machine, the dynamizer
Last Line: And then, my friends, the sick, come in
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ECHOLALIA, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps it's language, in the end
Last Line: Having nothing more to say
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


EGOTIST, by JOHN BRUCE MACCALLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I leaned on the horn of the yellow moon
Subject(s): Physicians


EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER), by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness
Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER), by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness
Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This motor won't start
Last Line: I feel my sex jumping
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


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


ELEGY IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE'S ... INSCRIPTIONS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the lone pile with ivy overspread
Last Line: That riches cannot pay for love or truth.
Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Doctors


ELEVENTH FLOOR, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A van near the west parking lot sells bagels
Last Line: Oncology is so far away
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


EMERGENCY ROOM, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glasses part-crooked,-bent
Last Line: My thank-you. A good doctor, %he expected no further answer
Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nome, Alaska; Physicians; Writing And Writers


EMPTINESS, by JOHN RANSOM PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be dead, then - die - be of another world
Subject(s): Death; Physicians


ENTROPY, by ROY G. PEARCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the night raven finds our hearth and fans
Subject(s): Physicians


EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said
Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n.
Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires
Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors


EPITAPH, by JOHN BRUCE MACCALLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spirit of death, so soft, so sweet
Subject(s): Physicians


ERASISTRATUS FORBEAR, SELS., by GEORGE L. WALTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh erasistratus forbear
Subject(s): Physicians


ESTRANGEMENT, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He never found that far look
Subject(s): Physicians


EVIDENCE ON FILM, by RON CHARACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's a live one
Last Line: He'll catch the soul escaping
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM: THE STABILITY OF SCIENCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms
Last Line: When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these?
Subject(s): Physicians; Science; Doctors; Scientists


FATIGUE ATTACKS THE NERVES, THE BRAIN, by JOHN RANSOM PALMER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


FETUS PAPYRACEOUS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes one of the twins dies
Last Line: Our imagined lives are written
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


FIFTH FINGER, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tissue slide on the microscope
Last Line: Cancer institute, I became expert %at this
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


FIRST CRASH CESAREAN, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hold it like a wand, you say
Last Line: Placing the closing stitch in her uterus, %like pulling a rabbit out of a hat
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


FIRST PAYMENT, by JON MUKAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the waiting room, she releases
Last Line: As an offering to the spring wind
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


FLOWERS, SELS., by WILLIAM BEANS MAGRUDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye are god's messengers of love, o flowers
Subject(s): Physicians


FOR DISSECTION, by JEROME MEYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred dead, hanging in a cellar
Subject(s): Physicians


FORTUNATUS NIMIUM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have lain in the sun
Last Line: Nor ever shall be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1. A LITTLE BREATH I'LL BORROW, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave prolonging thy distress!
Last Line: I die alone through her despite.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


FRIGHTENING DEATH, by CHARLES ANSON INGRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I opened the blinds; the day was bright
Subject(s): Physicians


GAUDEAMUS IGITUR: A VALEDICTION, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For this is the day of joy
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


GENERAL PARESIS, by LOUIS J. KARNOSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mental tapestry I spin
Subject(s): Insanity; Physicians


GETTING GRAY, by WILLIAM GREEN BROWNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Am I getting gray at this early day
Subject(s): Physicians


GETTING TO SLEEP IN NEW JERSEY, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not twenty miles from where I work
Last Line: Hungry for morning and the perfect word
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


GIVE ME A DOCTOR PARTRIDGE-PLUMP, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But with a twinkle in his eye %will tell me that I have to die
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Physicians


GIVING WAY, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seems we've been granted
Last Line: That we have made? Ah, september- %ninth month fully gravid before us
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


GODDAM STREET, by ROBERT+(1 COLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know her children
Last Line: Answered, not around here
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


GOODLYE DOCTRINE AND INSTRUCTION, SELS., by JOHN+(1) HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When thou arte callde at anye time
Subject(s): Physicians


GOSPEL OF CONSOLATION, by HAVELOCK ELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After long struggle I find joy at last
Subject(s): Physicians


GREEN AND BLACK, by CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When sunny clouds sail over kent
Subject(s): Physicians


GREEN DODGE, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was about to call my father. I know
Last Line: My father smiled. I walked him to his chair
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


GREEN DUST, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old man arcs his slim wooden fishing pole
Last Line: Like winter moonlight on a russian lake
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


GURNEY TEARS, by AUDREY SHAFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning frost cocoons my car
Last Line: Under the white, white covers
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HADES OF SCIENCE, by EDWARD WILLARD WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Infants die with a cry
Subject(s): Physicians


HALF BILLION - MORE OR LESS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked an agricultural economist how
Last Line: At a population of twenty billion, more %or less
Subject(s): Future; Life; Medicine; Physicians; Survival


HALF STUN'D I LOOK AROUND, by RONALD ROSS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): India; Physicians


HALLUCINATIONS?, by BEVERLY RANDOLPH TUCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hear the beat of the hoofs of wild horses
Subject(s): Physicians


HANDS: THE DOCTOR, by KATE M. CHIDESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: His hands / do not till earth
Last Line: To health.
Subject(s): Hands; Physicians; Doctors


HASHEESH, by VICTOR ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near punjab and pab, in sutlej and sind
Subject(s): Physicians


HE MAKES A HOUSE CALL, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six, seven years ago
Last Line: When you bled in my hands like a saint
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HEALING HANDS, by VICTOR ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within the darkened room he gently stept
Subject(s): Physicians


HEALTH, SELS., by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wouldst you extend your narrow span
Subject(s): Physicians


HELEN KELLER DYING IN HER SLEEP, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is the pump again, its cool neck
Last Line: And now it smells like night
Subject(s): Health; Physicians; Sickness


HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore
Last Line: And ease him of his pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors


HER FINAL SHOW, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She said it was a better way to die
Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Gays & Lesbians; Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


HER FINAL SHOW, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She said it was a better way to die
Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HER NAME IS ROSE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a boil the size of an egg
Last Line: Are these, beginning to twitch?
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HEREDITY, by FREDERICK PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met upon the woodland ways
Subject(s): Physicians


HIKING TO TSAGAGLALAL PETROGLYPH, THINKING OF GUY ANDERSON AT 90, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: High above the valley, where midday sun makes a kiln
Last Line: The blank o of a moon rising over water
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HOLE IN THE WEB, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After two days of high fever, dry cough
Last Line: Of a poisonous flower opening
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HORSESHOES, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's slipping by, tiny aliquots
Last Line: Green beans and a slice of meat
Subject(s): Horseshoes; Medicine; Memory; Physicians


HOSPITAL, by JOHN ALLEN WYETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fever, and crowds - and light that cuts your eyes
Subject(s): Physicians


HOSPITAL TRAIN, by JOHN ALLEN WYETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sick fretful upper berths - below, long rows
Subject(s): Physicians


HOSPITAL VERSES, by SAITO MOKICHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bending over %I stain the sections of a brain
Subject(s): Physicians


HOUSE CALL TO A MAN WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE, by MICHAEL O'REILLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You must have
Last Line: And when you smile for her, the flowers bloom beneath the snow
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HUNCHBACK, by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hundred women's eyes with love-light shone
Subject(s): Hunchbacks; Physicians


HYDROCEPHALIC, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How to describe this light?
Last Line: Pure tone of an empty bell
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


HYMN TO SCIENCE, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Science! Thou fair effusive ray
Last Line: And sit in peace with thee.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


I AM A DOCTOR, by NACHOEM WIJNBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I let rain devastate my clothes
Last Line: I have all the ingredients
Subject(s): Physicians


I HAVE TWO SONS AND THE ONE I LOVE BEST IS ROBERT, by PAULA TATARUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why she should trouble her young
Last Line: The unacceptable sacrifices %of all the other sons
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


I TREMBLE TO THINK, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Physicians


I'M GONNA SLAP THOSE DOCTORS, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the rosy condition
Last Line: On the way to the goddamn heavenly choir
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


IDIOT, by FREDERICK PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through his misshapen soul and brain
Subject(s): Physicians


IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 1.1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. John, whose love indulg'd my labours past
Last Line: A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god.
Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians; St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Doctors; Viscount Bolingbroke


IN AMOREM MEDICUM; EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For cares whilst love prepares the remedies
Last Line: The main disease in the physician lies.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


IN AUGUST, MY SISTER, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And her husband bring the new baby
Last Line: That will not condense %into a life
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


IN HOSPITAL: 11. CLINICAL, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hist! - / through the corridor's echoes
Last Line: Brilliantly hideous with red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Doctors


IN HOSPITAL: 15. 'THE CHIEF', by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His brow spreads large and placid, and his eye
Last Line: As once the son of zeus with death and hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Doctors


IN HOSPITAL: 16. HOUSE-SURGEON, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exceeding tall, but built so well his height
Last Line: And cultivate his mild philistinism.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Surgery; Doctors


IN MEMORY OF JOHN AND ROBERT WARE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No mystic charm, no mortal art
Last Line: Its broken chain.
Subject(s): Physicians; Ware, John (1795-1864); Ware, Robert; Doctors


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 HOSPITAL IT'S TWO O'CLOCK, by KJELL ESPMARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enter the room, double
Last Line: Its' denied him
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Sickness


IN THE STRAND, by HAVELOCK ELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faces I see, as through the street I go
Subject(s): Physicians


IN THE THEATRE, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sister saying -- soon you'll be back in the ward
Last Line: And silence matched the silence under snow
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


INDIAN FEVERS, by RONALD ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this, o nature, yield I pray to me
Variant Title(s): The Scientist's Praye
Subject(s): Physicians


INFANCY; ON INFANT NURSING, by HUGH DOWNMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She who refuses to let her young ones lip
Subject(s): Physicians


INFLAMMATION, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even if hidden to the naked eye, it persists
Last Line: With all manner of shadowform-and on fire
Subject(s): Health; Physicians; Sickness


INSCRIPTION FOR A HOSPITAL, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within these gray walls life begins and ends
Subject(s): Physicians


INSCRIPTION FOR AN OLD WELL, by JOHN FALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was the privy, there the porkers' pen
Subject(s): Physicians


INSULIN RECEPTOR, by H. J. VAN PEENAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So elegant, so simple, yet thought
Last Line: When an almost-nothing kills
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


INTERN, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always the ritual of morning rounds: huddled
Last Line: And pulled...And pulled
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


INVECTIVE, by C. DALE YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the turnpike, north-central florida
Last Line: Now I search for crude metaphors, like this dirt
Subject(s): Death; Florida; Physicians; Roads


INVISIBLE, by KAREN DALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a time I am invisible, it seems, swathed in thin blankets, waiting in
Last Line: He is needed, worshiped, loved
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Radiology; Sickness; Surgery


JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The medical machine
Last Line: Within the body's creche %of this too solid flesh?
Subject(s): Physicians


JOURNEY'S END, by HENRY LEE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When from the west dark shadows creep
Subject(s): Physicians


KAFKA'S GRAVE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curled on my lap like a cat
Last Line: As if among the yard of markers %only he had living progeny
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Medicine; Physicians


KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs
Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ...
Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology


KING AND I, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the king and I on an overseas flight
Last Line: In three places. My sister denies it completely
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


KING OF THE DOCTORS, SELS., by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How steady yon palace uplifts its proud head
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Hosack, David (1769-1835); Physicians


KINSHIP, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I too, have gone down
Subject(s): Physicians


KNOW THYSELF, by WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What am I? How produc'd? And for what end?
Last Line: Repair by meekness what you lost by pride.
Subject(s): Mankind; Physicians; Self; Human Race; Doctors


LABOUR AND DELIVERY: WHEN LIONS ARE TOO CLOSE, by RON CHARACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: His wife and he enter
Last Line: When lions come too close
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LABOUR AND DELIVERY: YOU AND YOURS, by RON CHARACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you add a girl
Last Line: Has not landed on you %or yours
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LABYRINTHITIS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Five months ago, the telephone
Last Line: Left for him to unravel
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LATE ROSE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I scrape the early morning sheen
Last Line: Is a greater joy than success
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LE MAS DU LUBERON, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stretch my legs after a midday meal: fresh morels
Last Line: My name is horowitz, abram horowitz of luberon
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LEARNING TO TWO-STEP, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll always remember how we promenaded
Last Line: In this way again
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LEAVING MOTHER, 1954, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We slipped, trampled, tripped
Last Line: Of the dying afternoon
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LES SAVANTS NE SONT PAS CURIEUX, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doctors must die, too; all their knowledge of
Subject(s): Physicians


LET ME LIVE FOR A TIME WAY BACK FROM THE ROAD, by C. G. FARNUM    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know, doctor williams, you and I
Last Line: Sheer, brute, singular %wounded %ourselves
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LIFE, by PAUL C. BOOMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth's special mystery - volation blest
Subject(s): Physicians


LIFE - WHAT IS IT?, by JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A filmy thread, tangled at either end
Subject(s): Physicians


LIFE LIKE A MATADOR GOES FORTH, by JOHN RANSOM PALMER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


LIKE ME, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was two, my doctor
Last Line: Her third course %of chemotherapy
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LINE DRIVE, by ARTHUR GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had come from a dying man's room
Last Line: Than the warmth of my hands in his
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LITANY, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Voice coarse from weeks of chanting
Last Line: One hand washing the other
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LOFT BEDROOM, TRANQUILITY COTTAGE, ORCAS ISLAND, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We face the open window, let the salt
Last Line: The wake begins to wash against the shore
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LOG OF PI, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the log of pi, the battle
Last Line: And is whispered in our ear just once
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LOS OLIVOS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The olive trees grow silently in patches on the shoulders
Last Line: To honor you as you had honored me in your choosing
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LOST, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: An already dog-eared map
Last Line: Improvising our lines as we go
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LOVESICKNESS: A MEDIEVAL TEXT, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As real as melancholy, baldness, headache
Last Line: Following which a cure will usually occur
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LUCK, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just my luck, I gave up smoking last month
Last Line: And the lesion in my lung is gone
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Medicine; Physicians; Smoking


LULLABY, by JON MUKAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each morning I finish my coffee
Last Line: Of a clean manila folder
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


LUNATIC, by SAITO MOKICHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mind intensely strained
Subject(s): Physicians


LUNCH AND AFTERWARDS. LUNCH WITH A PATHOLGIST, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My colleague knows by heart the morbid verse
Last Line: You're a peculiar fellow, abse
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MADAME BUTTERFLY, by DAVID MOOLTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a half-crazed woman stepped aboard
Last Line: Was the music of our lives
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MAN A MICROCOSM, by JOHN COLLOP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Natures compendium, th' worlds epitome
Subject(s): Physicians


MAN WITH A HOLE IN HIS FACE, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He has the lower part
Last Line: This man is the man in the moon
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MARSHAL SAXE AND HIS PHYSICIAN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fever's a most audacious varlet
Last Line: "pull up the glasses!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Fear; Fever; Physicians; War; Doctors


MASTER HANDS; TO DOCTOR ST. GEORGE FECHTIG, by LAVINIA R. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strong, magic hands
Last Line: The tenderness of prayer.
Subject(s): Hands; Physicians; Prayer; Doctors


MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours
Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight.
Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall
Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die.
Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism


MEDITATION, by SAMUEL WALTER KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There cannot yet remain a lenthened span
Subject(s): Immortality; Physicians


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


MELANCHOLIA, by LOUIS J. KARNOSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit in sad soliloquy
Subject(s): Physicians


MELANCHOLIA, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All afternoon I worked and reworked my idea
Last Line: Like these bare trees awash in amber %framing what it cannot contain
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


METAPHYSICIANS OF SOUTH JERSEY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because in large cities the famous truths
Last Line: About this place and what a world it was
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Physicians


MICROCOSM, SELS., by ABRAHAM COLES                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Physicians


MILLIE'S DATE, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With sedative voices we joke and spar
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MIND, by PAUL C. BOOMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That consciousness that wonders at its spright
Subject(s): Physicians


MIND, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of mind, and its mysterious agencies
Subject(s): Physicians


MIND AND MATTER, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great was his soul and high his aim
Subject(s): Physicians


MINERVA MEDICA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good chairman, brothers, friends, and guests
Last Line: Love, honor, and obedience, troops of friends.
Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors


MIRACLE, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old man, seated, his boiled turnip eyes
Last Line: But a silver needle, poised %above the blind eye
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MONDAY, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miami beach: everyone is eighty-two. Fourteen men
Last Line: I'm trying to think of a treatment for mr. Vallone
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MONDAY MORNING, by AUDREY SHAFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the prelight
Last Line: Ready to sleep
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MORNING REPORT ON HEALTH, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You just came home from the hospital
Last Line: For the times when you'll be abandoned %again
Subject(s): Health; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness


MOTHER CHURCH, by WALTER FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Head to the east I lie
Subject(s): Physicians


MOTORCYCLE WARD, by DAVID MOOLTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't say much about richie savalo
Last Line: In the thrumming cylinders of my heart
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MRI, by RON CHARACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the mr waiting room, gown pants and booties
Last Line: I answer, nothin' beats it
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MRI OF A POET'S BRAIN, by VERNON ROWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this image
Last Line: Of one %tiny %poem
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MURMUR, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They cut open his chest
Last Line: Remember me...Remember me
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MY DAUGHTER GRADUATED FROM LAW SCHOOL TODAY, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pulled out an old photo. This is july
Last Line: Of the earth. She was two years old
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MY EPITAPH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Youth, nature, and relenting jove
Last Line: He beat all three -- and blew it out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Physicians


MY FATHER'S SHADOW, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am my father's shadow, faint and elliptical
Last Line: It barely shimmers in the autumn breeze
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


MY RETREAT AT MOUNT CHUNG-NAN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart in middle age found the way
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Physicians


NATURE AND MAN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Physicians


NEMESIS, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scrubbing up, my surgeons check their nails
Last Line: Or did he think of gertrude at the blast?
Subject(s): Physicians; Surgery


NEUROANATOMY SUMMER, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The even-flow of neuronal pattern was visible
Last Line: More important than me was writing a paper, I thought
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


NEUROBIOLOGIST'S PROBLEM, by SUSAN LASHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open to memory, the book %on the table is suddenly illuminated
Last Line: Under one's breath in deep concentration, %thinking, or feeling
Subject(s): Physicians


NEW JERSEY BOYS, by ROBERT+(1) COLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: You two gardeners
Last Line: And give back to us, maybe our only chance
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


NEW YEAR, by ROY G. PEARCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As children lost and wandering
Subject(s): Physicians


NICHARCHUS UPON PHIDON HIS DOCTOR, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phidon neither purged me, nor touched me
Last Line: But I remembered the name of his fever medicine and died.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


NIGHT CALL, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday night, 2:00 a.M.
Last Line: Is empty. The snow is falling down
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


NIGHT COMETH, by JOHN MCCRAE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cometh the night. The wind falls low
Subject(s): Physicians


NOISE THAT TIME MAKES, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians; Time


NOSOPHILIA, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: For one it's insomnia, tremor, migraine
Last Line: Bunion. Harelip. Warts and all
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


NOT GOD, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought to delay the answer, camouflage
Last Line: Ask me a question that only god can answer?
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


NOT ONE THING ALONE, by MARIUS BOHUN-GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some fly through the storm and the night
Subject(s): Physicians


NOTE ON THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE, by JOHN RANSOM PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let the earth eat up her dead
Subject(s): Physicians


NOTES FOR THE CHART IN 306, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bubbles soar and die in the sterile bottle
Last Line: I know his habit: %he enters without knocking
Subject(s): Physicians


NUMBER OUR DAYS, by NORBERT HIRSCHHORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Names. %she and my uncles looked for names
Last Line: Dead mothers to the right
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ODE, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Astronomers should treat of stars and comets
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Physicians


ODE TO SLEEP, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft sleep, profoundly pleasing power
Subject(s): Physicians


ODE TO SOLITUDE, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O solitude, romantic maid
Subject(s): Physicians


OF GOOD AND EVIL, SELS., by ERASMUS DARWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each pregnant oak ten thousand acorns forms
Subject(s): Physicians


OLD AND BLIND, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gallant gray-beard, can't you see
Subject(s): Physicians


OLD DOCTOR, by HABBERTON LULHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's the last stick gone; well, one last look round
Subject(s): Physicians


OLD DOGS, by WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He circles about his master's knees
Subject(s): Physicians


OLD DR. VALENTINE TO HIS SON, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hopeless patients will live
Last Line: Wonder, and find out why
Subject(s): Physicians


OLD PATIENT, by JEROME MEYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am an old woman
Subject(s): Physicians


OLD-TIME FAMILY DOCTOR, by SPENCER MICHAEL FREE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, where is the doctor who treated our ills
Subject(s): Physicians


ON A PHYSICIAN, by NICARCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten of alexis' patients once were ill
Last Line: One night, one grave, one hades for the ten!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicarchos
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


ON DUTCH'S DEATH, by ROBERT+(1 COLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doctor's face on a december day
Last Line: In ways that helped them see
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY FATHER'S DEATH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I scoop up fine sand with the plastic shovel
Last Line: From the stubble to a dry dispersing wind
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Condemned to hope's delusive mine, / as we toil from day to day
Last Line: And freed his soul the nearest way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Variant Title(s): Lines On The Death Of Mr. Levett;dr. Levett;the Quiet Life
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Levet, Robert; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Doctors; Theology


ON THE SUBJECT OF DOCTORS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to see doctors cough
Subject(s): Physicians; Wit & Humor; Doctors


ONE OF THE SIGNERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O storied vale of merrimac
Last Line: These sculptured lips shall not be dumb!
Subject(s): Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795); Physicians; Statues; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Doctors


ORIGIN OF MUSIC, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When I was a medical student
Last Line: And play them like castanets
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Medicine; Physicians


OSLER, by WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: An eye whose magic wakes the hidden springs
Subject(s): Physicians


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


OUR FAMILY DOCTOR, by FLO HAMPTON SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our fambly doctor tells kids things
Last Line: He's cop'ing from the jesus man.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


OUR TREASURE IN HEAVEN, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep sweetly, gentle one
Subject(s): Physicians


OUT OF THE BEAST, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis
Subject(s): Mankind; Physicians


OVER ROANOKE, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From thirty-three thousand feet
Last Line: Are tucked alongside. I don't see how anyone gets across
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PAIN, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: From some unsought somewhere
Last Line: Its place again at table
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PAINTING THE NUDE, by ERIC DYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: His morning posture is sketched naked
Last Line: And breaking at last from his opening eyes
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PALINODE, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty years are gone
Subject(s): Physicians; Time


PARANOIA, by LOUIS J. KARNOSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A web of intrigue round me forms
Subject(s): Physicians


PAS DE DEUX, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Odd to be scarfing scrambled eggs & toast
Last Line: And a crackling sound something like applause
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PASSAGE, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow falls, thick %as unparsed speech
Last Line: Rising above %the battered %trees
Subject(s): Physicians


PATHOLOGY OF COLOURS, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I know the colour rose, and it is lovely
Last Line: Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the fixed and settled rules
Last Line: But, to my comfort, I'm prepared.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Physicians; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Doctors


PEACHES, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sapling in his south yard's infected
Last Line: Watching the pink-orange sun go down
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PELICANS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One pelican after another dives
Last Line: Seems to offer me half his fish
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PHILOSOPHERS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire burns, 'tis chilly when it snows
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Physicians


PHYSICAL THERAPIST, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one room, the physical therapist
Last Line: Under the skin %under his fingers
Subject(s): Love Affairs; Physicians


PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE, by AUGUSTUS P. CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In all complaints that show a threat'ning form
Last Line: Where joy and mirth have ever reigned forsooth?
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


PHYSITIANS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Physitians fight not against men; but these
Last Line: Combate for men, by conquering the disease.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


PICTURE OF A PHYSICIAN, by LEONTIUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old was iamblichus, the whole world's friend
Last Line: All fees, with modest hand, he would refuse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leontios
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


PINDARIC ODE: TO DR. SCARBOROUGH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, alas! Has our mad nation been
Last Line: When all's done, life is an incurable disease.
Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors


PINGUID, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I came across this word unexpectedly
Last Line: Along the surface, viscous and opaque, pinguid and smooth
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PIPE DREAMS: 4, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Protect me, wah! I see three fearful fiends
Last Line: Your young appendix, also all your wealth?
Subject(s): Dreams; Physicians; Nightmares; Doctors


PIPE DREAMS: 5, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now doc, come off! You with the bucksaw. What
Last Line: Except a smoke to loosen up my jaws!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


PITCH O' PINE SONNETSL 3. CLEM'S FOOL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clem told the 'squire that ben was growing strong
Last Line: Sore stabbed the 'squire, -- 'twas clem the burden bore.
Subject(s): Children; Geese; Hens; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors


PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing
Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women


PLAYING DOCTOR, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some day I'll be a doctor-man
Last Line: By bringing aunty from the hall.
Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Play; Childhood; Doctors


POEM: AT CENTENNIAL DINNER OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three paths there be where learning's favored sons
Last Line: Ye served your brothers; ye have served your lord!
Subject(s): Learning; Physicians; Doctors


POEM: READ AT THE DINNER GIVEN BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I deserved your kindness? Nay, my friends
Last Line: But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 1, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctors are a frightful race
Last Line: I mean to put them in their place.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 2. THEIR AVARICE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctor lives by chicken pox, / by measles, and by mumps
Last Line: "the man must live!"" but why?"
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 3. THEIR IGNORANCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then besides. It makes me boil
Last Line: With thwarted spite send him your bill.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Physicians; Dullness; Stupdity; Doctors


POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 4. THEIR CURIOSITY AS COMPARED WITH THAT ...., by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The noblest fellows in the world, / excepting engine-drivers
Last Line: Beyond the gates of hercules.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


POET/DOCTOR AND EMPATHY, by ROBYN SELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light rises, a mute, phosphorescent knife
Last Line: Where our oaths cannot be ground away
Subject(s): Physicians; Poetry And Poets


PORTUGAL LAUREL, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times I fear
Last Line: Which I know by tomorrow %will be gone
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


POT OF RED LENTILS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Simmers on the kitchen stove
Last Line: To our lips, filling us %with what endures
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


POTTER, by MICHAEL O'REILLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Took %two snowdrops to fall off the world
Last Line: We will stay in love forever, until morning
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PREDICTION, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world might end in crispness
Last Line: Will fly, thick as the day the world began
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


PROLOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How wretched is the fate of those who write!
Last Line: Traduced two kings, their kindness do requite; %one made thedoctor, and one dubbed the knight
Variant Title(s): Prologue To The 'pilgrim,' Revive
Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians


PULP FEMINISM, APRIL INSTALLMENT, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because when I go for my yearly physical
Last Line: And now if I only had the nerve to %call you first
Subject(s): Physicians; Relationships; Women's Rights


PUTTING THE GARDEN TO REST, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today you clipped long, thin verticals
Last Line: Then disappears into the white sky
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


QUACK VENDOR, by AUGUSTUS P. CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What though he spoke in words and accents fair
Subject(s): Physicians


QUESTION OF VITAMINS, by RON CHARACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lunch at the mars
Last Line: Wadda you know %you got a job
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


QUINTON, by ELIZABETH HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have to run, an appointment
Last Line: I held him in my arms; %we cried together
Subject(s): Classmates; Physicians; Schools; Sympathy


RABELAIS AND THE LAMPREYS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the eccentric rabelais was physician
Last Line: "but one of most delicious flavour!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Variant Title(s): The Doctor And The Lampreys
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lampreys; Physicians; Doctors


RAINY SEASON, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the rainy season in virgin gorda
Last Line: A human being, undoing creation
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


RAISING OF TABITHA, SELS., by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He lifted up her hand from off her breast
Subject(s): Physicians


RECIDIVISM, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Habitual or chronic relapse - nowadays it primarily refers
Last Line: Where dialect has mutated along its own cavernous course
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


RECOMPENSE, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be with me, laughter, when the last, thin shout
Subject(s): Physicians


RED MOON, by NORMAN BETHUNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: And this same pallid moon tonight
Subject(s): Physicians


RED POLKA-DOT DRESS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't decide what to do
Last Line: And that's me holding her hand. %I see, I said
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


REGRET, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day you will slip into an airport
Last Line: Will have learned what I have taught you
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


REMARKS MITCHELL AT THE DINNER IN HONOR OF WILLIAM H. WELCH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: T is said that hovering near your infant couch
Last Line: "tuus ex anima."
Subject(s): Nature; Physicians; Welch, William Henry (1850-1934); Doctors


REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled?
Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife."
Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors


REMEMBRANCE, by FRANCISCO CASTILLO NAJERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went into the amphitheatre for the first time
Subject(s): Physicians


REPETITION, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see %the bleak parakeet dancing
Last Line: And then again, and again
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


REVELATION, by HAVELOCK ELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long years ago, beneath another sky
Subject(s): Physicians


RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more'
Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness


RIP VAN WINKLE, M. D., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old rip van winkle had a grandson rip
Last Line: Our brother rip, m. M. S. S., m. D.!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


ROSEMARY, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: 6 a.M. All over the world
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


ROUND KILLAR, by ERIC DYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This strippr is dancing
Last Line: That I am a square
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


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


RULE OF THIRDS, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Third, third, third -- the rule I learned
Last Line: The language of the body %in its genes
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


S.W., by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw
Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


S.W., by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw
Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SALERNE SCHOOLE, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


SAND CRAB, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked along the bay
Last Line: It up, my nephew laughed
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SAY YES, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I cut down on fatty foods, lose
Last Line: Excoriated world. I must try it sometime
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SAYING THE WORLD, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: If a dream is the answer to a question
Last Line: Imagine the silver lily returning %before we say goodnight
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SCARLET CROWN, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met a man my age running a greenhouse
Last Line: Or dancing-bones
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SCRIBBLED ON WALL BESIDE HIS BED DURING LAST LUCID INTERVAL, by GEORGE RADCLIFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What use to send for dr. Lane, %when you are sick and racked with pain?
Last Line: Though you survive his medicine chests %you'll die of laughter at his jests
Subject(s): Physicians


SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, by HENRY HEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago I used to pray
Subject(s): Physicians


SELECTION, SELS., by JUAN DIAZ COVARRUBIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woe is he who sees vanish and then melt away
Subject(s): Physicians


SELF-COMPOSED EPITAPH; ON A DOCTOR BY THE NAME OF I. LETSOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When people's ill they come to me
Last Line: Sometimes they live, sometimes they die; %what's that to I? I letsome
Variant Title(s): On Dr. Isaac Letsom
Subject(s): Physicians


SEMAPHORE, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes a word seems to fall
Last Line: Von hippel-lindau disease
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SENSELESS BEAUTY, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A breezy updraft whips cirrocumulus
Last Line: The sky so damn blue
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SHADOW AND SPIRIT, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were half-undressed in the bedroom when
Last Line: Cuffed wrists making a heartshape of her hands
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SHADOW LIMB, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a dr. Murphy %who cut my mother's leg off
Last Line: And the shadows were mine
Subject(s): Amputees; Mothers; Physicians


SHOE BOX, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sooner or later it returns to
Last Line: Vanished in that box
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SHORTLY AFTER, by LOUIS SMIRNOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting %reflecting %on what has been passing
Subject(s): Physicians


SIGH, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sighed this morning, a slow deep inspiration
Last Line: To keep the sigh inside
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SLEEP, by JOHN BRUCE MACCALLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long have I wooed thee through the slow winged hours
Subject(s): Physicians


SMALL GIRL BRINGS AN INJURED BIRD INTO THE SURGERY, by MICHAEL O'REILLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: March, now, and almost the season
Last Line: Because they have burnt me at the catherine-wheel
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put
Last Line: I leave him pleading. There's too much to do
Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aid
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SONGS OF LA MOUCHE, by HENRY HEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard them say 'he died last night'
Subject(s): Death; Physicians


SONNET, by THOMAS LODGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I feele my selfe endaungered beyond reason
Subject(s): Physicians


SONNET ON THE DEATH OF PAUL EHRLICH, DISCOVER OF SALVARSAN, by JEROME MEYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: O knight of silent hour and silent soul
Subject(s): Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915); Physicians


SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL; EPITAPH FOR 'LYONNELL LOCKIER', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lockyer lies interr'd: enough his name
Last Line: "this verse is lost, his pills embalm him safe / to future times without an epitaph"
Subject(s): Epitaphs;physicians; Doctors


SPECIALIST FROM CHICAGO', by ANN RUSSELL DARR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Breast? Suppose he had never been called? %who makes history?
Subject(s): History; Mothers; Physicians


SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes
Last Line: They yield the field
Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries


ST. GEORGE'S PENITENTIARY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The learned and facetious dr. Airy
Last Line: Had we just now the time to write 'em.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Physicians; Doctors


STEAM BATH, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My younger brother stood in the center
Last Line: Drawn in. A breath's pushed out
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


STETHOSCOPE, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Through it
Last Line: Traveling from where it began
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


STROKE, by ARTHUR GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comes down, white as an avalanche
Last Line: Than speech, the vespers of silence
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SUICIDE?, by ELIAS NANDINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In order to escape from time I arrive at a time
Subject(s): Physicians


SUITE FOR A SISTER: 1. SUSTENANCE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister was very sick
Last Line: The other the study %of silence
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SUITE FOR A SISTER: 2. MADRONA, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister died when she was five
Last Line: Half dying, half alive
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SUITE FOR A SISTER: 3. I DREAM MY SISTER IS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our family is camping at larrabee state park when we wake up to find she
Last Line: Its front cut open
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SUITE FOR A SISTER: 4. SUZY Q, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After my sister died
Last Line: Strapped into life jackets
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SUITE FOR A SISTER: 5. I DREAM MY SISTER IS STILL ALIVE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And in fresno, married ten cheerful years to a computer geek she met
Last Line: With insulin. I feel so glad I could cry. How much she looks like me
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SUM PRACTYSIS OF MEDECYNE, by ROBERT HENRYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guk, guk, gud day, ser, gaip quhill ye get it
Last Line: (ane uthir manis erss.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1)
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


SUNRISE IN VIRGIN GORDA, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea, almost slate blue, a four-masted schooner
Last Line: Tacks at least ten degrees to port
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


SURGEON, by GEORGE W. CALDWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is the man in the sterile white
Subject(s): Physicians


SURGEON, by WILFRED JOHN FUNK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now he begins: his fingers feel
Subject(s): Physicians


SURGERY OF THE LIVER, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You cannot undo liver, you can make
Subject(s): Physicians


SURGICAL ART VERSUS BEAUTY, by RUDOLFO FIGUEROA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How beautiful death is! Exuberant
Subject(s): Physicians


SURVIVOR, by THOMAS DORSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She saw on her home street
Last Line: With spoonfulls of nursing-home jell-o
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


T.B.'S PROGRESS, by NORMAN BETHUNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, o stranger, at the danger
Subject(s): Physicians


TAKE CARE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take care, we say to one another
Last Line: Of the healing serum
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


TALKING TO THE FAMILY, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My white coat waits in the corner
Last Line: And replace the light bulb in the hall
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


TAP, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love to find a door. Like the spinal tap
Last Line: How it comes, the brain's clear bath
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Religion; Spirituality


TEXTBOOK CASE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A certain man fell ill. The year of coughing passed
Last Line: Disposition if not a martyr's persistence, %if nothing else the good fortune to die
Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians


THAT I SHALL DIE, by JOHN W. THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


THE APPOINTMENT, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genaro was standing
Last Line: You can all go to hell
Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Physicians


THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 4. THE PASSIONS, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The choice of aliment, the choice of air
Last Line: One power of physic, melody, and song.
Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF PAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive a moment, if a friend's regret
Last Line: ^1^ oliver wendell holmes.
Subject(s): Pain; Physicians; Suffering; Misery; Doctors


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consumed. Eaten away. And love across the street
Subject(s): Physicians; Death; Doctors; Dead, The


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the jury your name.
Subject(s): Trials; Physicians; Labor & Laborers; Death; Doctors; Work; Workers; Dead, The


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 7. PROFESSIONS - PHYSIC, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next, to a graver tribe we turn our view
Last Line: And spoil the fruits of this nefarious trade.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE CHAMELEON AND THE DOCTOR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a chameleon laid up in a bed
Last Line: A young lady's bright batik sweater for sport.
Subject(s): Chameleons; Physicians; Doctors


THE CURE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, doctor, use thy roughest art
Last Line: That I should hope 'twould almost quench my fire.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, SELECTION, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: Frequent oil your safety-clutch.
Subject(s): Death; Egoism & Egotism; Holidays; Noses; Physicians; Social Protest; Dead, The; Doctors


THE DOCTOR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stories! Stories! Nothin' but stories!
Last Line: You liked little katty? Well, that's enough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE DOCTOR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't see why pa likes him so
Last Line: The doctor come to make a call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE DOCTOR, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: You chose secure delight who so combined
Last Line: Ride in the memoried cell defying death.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors


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 DOCTOR WHO SITS AT THE BEDSIDE OF A RAT, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE DOCTOR'S STORY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good folks ever will have their way
Last Line: I'll give her medicine made by men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Physicians; Farm Life; Cures; Faith


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 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 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 GRAY CHIEF; FOR MEETING OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet to fight our battles o'er
Last Line: His manhood's twice-told years!
Subject(s): Bigelow, Jacob (1786-1879); Physicians; Doctors


THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them
Last Line: Braver than the brave?
Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War


THE INTERNE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the agony of having too much power!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE LADY DOCTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw ye that spinster gaunt and grey
Last Line: Disconsolate and lonely.
Subject(s): Physicians; Spinsters; Women; Doctors; Old Maids


THE LITTLE FAT DOCTOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He seemed so strange to me, every
Last Line: "as the little fat doctor does!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Memory; Physicians; Youth; Doctors


THE LOT, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've seen a specialist who thinks
Last Line: And next a specialist.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE MORNING VISIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sick man's chamber, though it often boast
Last Line: The truest, noblest, wisest, kindest, best.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE NERVE DOCTORS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here they come by the busload the nerve doctors: some
Subject(s): Conventions; Leadership; Physicians; Assemblies; Meetings; Doctors


THE PHYSICIAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou whose healing reaches far
Last Line: Now, and through eternity.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF J.L. MCDOWELL, M.D. (MOUNTAIN DOCTOR), 1970, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of its plain brown
Subject(s): Christmas; Physicians; Nativity, The; Doctors


THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent for radcliffe [or ratcliffe]; was so ill
Last Line: I died last night of my physician.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE SICK DOCTOR, by E. ARNAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A certain doctor, sick and near to die
Last Line: This man is past recovery!'
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE SLAVE SHIP, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The supercargo mynher van koek
Last Line: "there's an end to my occupation."
Subject(s): Blacks; Physicians; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Doctors; Serfs


THE STETHOSCOPE SONG; A PROFESSIONAL BALLAD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a young man in boston town
Last Line: By a couple of silly, abnormal flies.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse
Last Line: Was never to mortal known.
Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors


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 TWO ARMIES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As life's unending column pours
Last Line: To sit beside the throne!
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE TWO DOCTORS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said dr. Do, 'drink lots of milk
Last Line: "I go to dr. Do."
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE VILLAGE DOCTOR, by SAMUEL SLAYTON LUCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see him still, as erst of yore
Last Line: "their names shall grace the ""book of life."
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp?
Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists


THERAPY, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You attribute my recovery
Last Line: To the warmth of your hand
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


THESE HANDS OF OURS, by TEMPLE FAY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


THIS SENSELESS SLUG, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


THOUSANDS: PEANUTS, by LAIRD HUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sign above the opening to the inner sanctum read, the doctor is in
Last Line: Wrapped around the dark metal, and the short blue dress, barely illuminated by %the torches below
Subject(s): Physicians


THREE VOICES, by LISA FURMANSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noise %I hear air warm, a warping din
Last Line: As I break end from end do you bind me in petals in tears
Subject(s): Grief; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Voices


THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL PINDARIC ODE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus long my grief has kept me dumb
Last Line: The fasces of the main.
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors


TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS -- BUT ONE, by VERNON ROWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let me go, doc %and I did
Last Line: Let me go, doc %and I did
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


TIRED DOCTOR'S PRAYER, by GEORGE DAVID STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I, having finished with things below
Subject(s): Physicians


TO ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. (AT THE DINNER CELEBRATING HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No honors hath the state for you whose life
Last Line: That all their ways fair fortune strew with flowers.
Subject(s): Jacobi, Abraham (1930-1919); Physicians; Praise; Doctors


TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape
Last Line: From my disease's danger, and from thee.
Variant Title(s): To Doctor Empirick
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


TO DR EMPIRIC, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape
Last Line: From my disease's danger -- and from thee!
Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors


TO DR. AUSTIN, OF CECIL STREET, LONDON, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Austin! Accept a grateful verse from me!
Last Line: And boldly call thee, being his, my own.
Variant Title(s): To Dr. Austen, Of Cecil Street, London
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


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 DR. SCHOMBERG, OF BATH, by PAUL WHITEHEAD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To schomberg quoth death, 'I your patient will have'
Last Line: Since he and the college had been in alliance.
Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors


TO F.A.B., A VIRTUOUS YOUNG PHYSICIAN ABOUT TO PRACTISE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Frank, young in years, but no unworthy heir
Last Line: The master whom luke served is also thine.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Physicians; Professions; Work; Workers; Doctors


TO MR. MACKENZIE, SURGEON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friday first's the day appointed
Last Line: That saturday you'll fetch him.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


TO N. CHAPMAN, M.D., SELS., by JOHN KEARSLEY MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've aften wished for burn's pen
Subject(s): Chapman, Nathaniel (1780-1853); Physicians


TO NAPOLEON IN EXILE, by WALTER CHANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: And thou wert beaten then at waterloo?
Subject(s): Physicians


TO SIR THOS. BARLOW, P.R.C.P., by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's all up I may tell you, good thomas barlow
Last Line: Most kindly frank'd me a copy of his dissertation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945); Physicians; Doctors


TRAIL OF LIFE, by GEORGE W. CALDWELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians


TRANSFIGURATION, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Underpants
Last Line: Genetically programmed %errors
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


TRIOLET, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A perfectly clear liquid like water
Last Line: Last night, in the cold hospital, this is what I saw.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


TRUCK, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was coming back from
Last Line: Down here %as a setback
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


TUBERCULOSIS, by VICTOR ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again the doeful fall is here
Subject(s): Physicians; Tuberculosis


TWO SUFFERING MEN, by EUGENE HIRSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sat across, behind my desk
Last Line: Taste so damn good in the morning
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


TWO WEEKS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man's cough bounces down the hallway
Last Line: I am here now two weeks
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


UNCONSCIOUS, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unconscious is incredibly wise
Subject(s): Physicians


UPON A PHYSITIAN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou cam'st to cure me (doctor) of my cold
Last Line: First cur'd thy selfe; then come and cure me.
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


VACCINE, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: One more child in a silent line
Last Line: Pale and hardening like a star
Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Needles; Physicians


VALUE OF ELEMENTAL REMEDIES, by CHARLES ANSON INGRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deacon rogers he came to me
Subject(s): Physicians


VENETIAN GLASS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The glass museum of murano is fifteen minutes
Last Line: With amber and green
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


VENIPUNCTURE, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the callows of my intern year of
Last Line: Tiny vessel in this gargantuan frame
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


VERMONT HAS A HIGH SUICIDE RATE, by RICHARD DONZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At least that's
Last Line: So cold %so long
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


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 IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil
Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift.
Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors


VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF ENGLAND'S ARCH-POET, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See who ne'er was or will be half-read!
Last Line: But send him, honest job, thy wife.
Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians; Doctors


VERSES: READ ON THE PRESENTATION BY S. WEIR MITCHELL TO THE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We call them great who have the magic art
Last Line: "divide the honors,—let us share the boy!"
Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors


VINCENT, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thanksgiving he'll be there, crumpled
Last Line: Filling the room with his own voice
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


VOYEUR, by DAVID MOOLTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man watches a woman disrobe in a window
Last Line: Impervious to all dishonors but one
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WAGES OF MERCY, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The medics tell me he's been ten years
Last Line: The telephone rings three times, then stops
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WAITING FOR SOPHOCLES, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was there hope for peace in talk of war?
Last Line: Without kissing, without saying a word
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WALKING THE DOG, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She weighed
Last Line: Walked it faithfully %twice a day
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WARNING, by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If, while turtle round is flowing
Subject(s): Physicians


WATER STORY, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the living sound of my plant when I water it
Last Line: I carry this story on my white shoes
Subject(s): Birth; Life; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Water


WAY TO HAVE HANDSOME CHILDREN, SELS., by CLAUDE QUILLET    Poem Source                    
First Line: You now, who are dispos'd to learn our arts
Subject(s): Birth; Physicians


WESTERN-TRAINED IN THE OTHER WORLD, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He bolted out of bed full of ideas
Last Line: A fox-trot, saw yourself in black tuxedos
Subject(s): Death - Children; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness


WHAT I AM, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You ask me how I know
Last Line: What I am proficient at
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WHAT I HEARD ON THE RADIO TODAY, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Horowitz debuted a schumann piece
Last Line: That I heard on the radio today
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WHAT IS IT TO DIE?, by PLINY EARLE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality; Physicians


WHAT IS LOST, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she came across the border
Last Line: Into a piece that will hold
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Politics; War


WHAT MATTERS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nurse drifts in, checks
Last Line: Hang on before we let go
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine
Last Line: It was fabulous, what the body told
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine
Subject(s): Physicians; Medicine; Physicians; Doctors; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine
Last Line: I was fabulous, what the body told
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WHAT WOULD I GIVE, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I would like to give them for a change
Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors


WHEN UNCLE DOC WAS YOUNG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though doctor glen - the best of
Last Line: When uncle doc was young.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors


WHO LOOKS AFTER YOUR KIDS, by KIRSTEN EMMOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who looks after your kids while you work
Last Line: My senile old grandmother. The wicked witch %of the west
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Women


WILL CAMPBELL DISPLAYS HIS CRANIOTRIBE, by H. J. VAN PEENAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They said I had to have it. It was an instrument
Last Line: In the thirty-bed hospital here at humble pie?
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WINDOW SEAT, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pillow-propped, secluded by a double layer
Last Line: The failed premise of snow?
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WINEPRESS, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this day of serial monogamy
Last Line: This need not make sense %to have meaning
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WINTER STRIPPING, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the pear, the grape, the old apple tree
Last Line: The beauty of what remains
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WINTERBLOOM, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The knot in your breast was already
Last Line: A shimmering confetti, its citrus-musk %a bitter sweet
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WISH, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each time her mother %called her into the bedroom
Last Line: Both of them smiling, neither %thinking of opening the door
Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Physicians


WORDS, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cynosure of fashion. That's
Last Line: He had melena and %angiodysplasia
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


WOUND MAN, by D. A. FEINFELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stabbed, clubbed, and slashed, I stand
Last Line: Are but blood. I am granted no tears
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


X-RAY, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Some prowl seabeds, some hurtle to a star
Last Line: But don't want to, I still don't want to know
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians


X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: What truth the doctor reads
Last Line: And breath.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


YOUTH, by VERNON ROWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She glided into
Last Line: And we can fix those
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians