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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PHYSICIANS Matches Found: 546 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 |
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