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Subject: PLAGUE Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE DISEASES OF BATH, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 |
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