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Subject: PLAGUE
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First Line: If to the pump room in the morn we go
Last Line: "then looking back, I curse cthat jakes obscene, / whence I come sullied out who entered clean"
Subject(s): Disease;plague


ALMANACK FOR 1733, SELS., by NATHANIEL AMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time works a change on all material things
Last Line: He's raised sublime above his former place
Subject(s): Creation; Plague


AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness; Illness


AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347
Last Line: Who will die in its own time %with its own wondering tales of woe
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness


ANE PRAYER FOR THE PEST, by ROBERT HENRYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O eterne god, of power infinyt
Last Line: Lat nocht be tynt that thow sa deir hes bocht.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1)
Subject(s): Plague


COUCH OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veiled evening walked solitary down the western hills
Last Line: Over the couch of death, and the youth breathes out his soul with joy into eternity
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plague


DE RERUM NATURA: SYMPTOMS OF PLAGUE IN ATHENS, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was no respite from pain: their bodies lay fainting
Last Line: Or perhaps the ninth, they parted with their lives
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Plague


DIALOGUE, BETWEEN CRAB AND GILLIAN, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where oxen do low and apples do grow
Last Line: And so you may ring the bells.
Subject(s): Conversation; Farewell; Hunting; Plague; Towns; Parting; Hunters


DOCTORS AND NURSES, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A life for saving of life!
Last Line: And, living or dying, are blest!
Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness


FOUR THIEVES VINEGAR, by DEANNE LUNDIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stench and sting of the fires. Morning a dim of ash. Evening a
Last Line: And they picked up the dead woman and carried her to the fires
Subject(s): Healing; Plague; Vinegar


GEORGICS: DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No remedy was found in change of food
Last Line: The accursed fire consumed his stricken joints.
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Plague


LINES ON THE SUMMER OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE: 1865, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer long, and bright, and glowing
Last Line: Lord, remove thy chast'ning hand!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cattle; Death - Animals; Nature; Plague; Summer


LODOS ON THE BOSPHORUS, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's an ill-mannered wind that whangs up the strait
Last Line: A glot, a tremor, an oily-thighed fat misanthropic plague
Subject(s): Disease; Plague; Sickness


METAMORPHOSES: 3. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next I will write a book about the plague
Subject(s): Plague


METAMORPHOSES: 3. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next I will write a book about the plague
Last Line: With a nextie - paisley - brooks brothers
Subject(s): Plague


NEWS FROM ETHIOPIA AND THE SUDAN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Armies and lemmings do not go
Last Line: But are for their arms and skin alone
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Hunting; News; Plague


OEDIPUS REX [TYRANNUS] [OR, OEDIPUS THE KING]: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is god singing in his profound
Last Line: Come with blinding torches, come in joy!
Subject(s): Plague


ON MILTON'S COTTAGE, AT CHALFONT, ST. GILES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath this roof, for no so use designed
Last Line: His martyred brethren and his country's shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Plague


ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted
Last Line: That till the world's last end shall make thy name to live.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Plague; Death - Babies


ON THE OXFORD CARRIER, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lieth one, who did most truly prove
Last Line: Only remains this superscription.
Variant Title(s): Another On The Same
Subject(s): Hobson, Thomas (1544-1630); Labor & Laborers; Plague; Work; Workers


ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies old hobson, death hath broke his girt
Last Line: Hobson has supt, and 's newly gon to bed.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Hobson, Thomas (1544-1630); Labor & Laborers; Plague; Work; Workers


PLAGUE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Began far away seemed to began to begin in a far a faraway
Last Line: And here %and now
Subject(s): Plague


PLAGUES, by CLAUDIA EMERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rain crow lusts in the hot, waxy pines
Last Line: Keeping us, as if we could be let go
Subject(s): Farm Life; Plague


REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter
Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies!
Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies
Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English


SIGNS OF THE PLAGUE, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does the finger / yellow midst the sunshine
Last Line: Still as a rainbow in the pathless sky,
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): Plague


SONNET WRITTEN UPON OCCASION OF THE PLAGUE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair mirrour of foul times! Whose fragile sheene
Last Line: He sent him war, or plague, or famine sore.
Subject(s): Plague


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 9. THE PLAGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, the last stroke of death's noon has struck
Last Line: Who mourneth for the multitude dead here?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Plague; Dead, The


STATE OF THE UNION: 22. THE PLAGUE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More than ten years after, the war
Last Line: And state wash for us to live again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Plague


SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: A LITANY IN TIME OF PLAGUE, by THOMAS NASHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, farewell earth's bliss! / this world uncertain is
Last Line: Lord, have mercy on us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1)
Variant Title(s): A Lament;in Time Of Pestilence;in Plague Time;a Lament In Times Of Pestilence;lord, Have Mercy On Us;a Litany In Time Of Plague;death's Summons;song Of Ver And His Train
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Plague; Sickness; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness; Impermanence


TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: During the plague I came into my own
Last Line: Into my own
Subject(s): Plague; Death; Dead, The


THE PLAGUE IN THE CITY, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know ye what ye will meet with in the city?
Last Line: Bright with the ring that holds her lover's hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): Plague


THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this thy bravery man, is this thy pride?
Last Line: That draws, like a strong net, the mighty sea upon them all.
Subject(s): Egypt; Nile (river); Plague


THE RETIREMENT; PINDARIC ODE MADE IN THE TIME OF GREAT SICKNESS, 1665, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mild close of a hot summer's day
Last Line: Magnificent and tall without, but dead men's bones within.
Subject(s): Plague


THE SOUTHERN SCOURGE, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow fever was raging
Last Line: To the sufferers of their land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Plague


THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast
Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape.
Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THE WORLD IN ARMOUR: 2, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When london's plague, that day by day enrolled
Last Line: Yet woe to him that idly lights the fuel!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Plague; War


THE YELLOW FEVER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sky is pure, the clouds are light
Last Line: The spirit was -- but is not there!
Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sea; Yellow Fever; Dead, The; Ocean


TO LIVE THIS CLOSE TO DEER, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deer shy to the woods at daybreak
Last Line: So fresh they're still filling with ground water
Subject(s): Death; Disease; Plague


YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks
Last Line: They dance the dance they dance
Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats