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Subject: PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SERIOUS CASE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we happen to choke ujp on history, none too soon Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals; Childhood; Work; Workers; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Last Line: God's goodness, but his better or less scorn Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek Last Line: Weep not as others weep. Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums FROM A GIRL IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning wakes me as a broken door vibrating on its hinges Last Line: The ocean is as still as a new made bed, rocking Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals FROM THE ATTIC OF THE INSANE ASYLUM GATEHOUSE, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: I caught a glimpse of someone (I thought %inmate) walking under my window Last Line: My name like that, in red crayon, a long long time ago Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals GHOSTS OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright Last Line: The silence of the eight men who were god! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums GLIMPSES OF POWER: 4, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: A psychologist talking to a man at a state hospital Last Line: If you ain't just woofin', you be on yo' knees and askin' Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Psychology HER PARENTS BROUGHT SUIT, BUT SINCE SHE WAS INCOHERENT ..., by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: The judge believed the shrink, and on Last Line: Please. I'm sorry, it's ok Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals IN THE COMMON ROOM, by PAM BERNARD Poem Source First Line: White coat flapping, dr. Howland Last Line: Touch, says, he doesn't even know you're alive Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Religion JIG FOR THE INSANE ASYLUM GATEHOUSE NOW CONDEMNED, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: My fingers slap the tone holes Last Line: Breathes into a two-bit whistle %and dead peasants dance Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals LETTER FROM AN INSTITUTION, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ward beds float like ghost ships Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Dreams; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums; Nightmares LIKE A SCARF, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums LOVE IN THE ASYLUM, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger has come Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Love; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums MADHOUSE, by CALVIN C. HERNTON Poem Source First Line: Here is a place that is no place Last Line: From nothing, and that nothing is always a thing %to drive us mad Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals MON SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je demande qu'on me doone Last Line: Arrangera tout pour mon bien Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets MY SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I demand that they give me a bed Last Line: And arrange things for my welfare Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets ODE ON VISITING THE RETREAT NEAR YORK; ... FOR INSANE PERSONS, by CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Hail to these tranquil shades, this calm retreat Last Line: Heaven bade this structure rise, and call'd it the retreat Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals ON THE MAD-HOUSE AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour aright the philosophic thought Last Line: Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Venice, Italy; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums PATIENT: ROCKLAND COUNTY SANITARIUM, by CALVIN C. HERNTON Poem Source First Line: Here is a place that is no place Last Line: And stare out upon the great hecatomb of life with cold, %immobile, terrified eyes Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals REFLECTIONS ON THE RUINS OF THE ASYLUM AT SAINT-REMY, by PRISCILLA ATKINS Poem Source First Line: A strand of ivy scrambles Last Line: Following the grooves %of a slow wagon Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals STILL-HILDRETH SANATORIUM, 1936, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she wasn't on rounds she was counting Last Line: Lift like a good child my face to be kissed Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums STILL-HILDRETH SANATORIUM, 1936, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she wasn't on rounds she was counting Last Line: Lift like a good child my face to be kissed Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals THE ASYLUM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my asylum Last Line: We're afraid of going -- sane! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Illness; Ennui; Convicts THE MENTAL HOSPITAL GARDEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is far to assisi Last Line: The full meaning / of it / all Subject(s): Religion; Psychiatric Hospitals; Gardens & Gardening; Theology TO DOCUMENT A 20-SECOND HUG BETWEEN TWO WOMEN IN A HOSPITAL, by MARLENE PEARSON Poem Source First Line: Mark saw it next grabbed a pen %wrote what he'd watched Last Line: Like the 'l' word %like a lesbian Subject(s): Homosexuality; Psychiatric Hospitals WEATHER REPORT FROM THE STATE ASYLUM, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad old women, bolted from april's weather Last Line: Gray secret face raised quietly, between Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WOMEN'S WARD, by GENOA MORRIS Poem Text First Line: In ordered groups they sit Last Line: "lost!" Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Women; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WORDLESS WINTER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who cares what name you call it - here is comes Last Line: Felt the dark cadence castigate his arm Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychiatric Hospitals; Winter; Writing And Writers |
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