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Subject: SICKNESS Matches Found: 837 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 14-OCT-87, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: 4 a.M. %and I am Last Line: In light %gold Subject(s): Aids (disease); Health; Sickness; Strangers 1947: DOPE COCKTAIL, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: I wait, uncrated Last Line: Of my own blood %even touches me Subject(s): Babies; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Sickness 1956, THE YEAR MY SISTER, USING HER ILL HEALTH ONCE AGAIN ..., by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: My mother even hated Last Line: With an ear for a good accordion %and all the musics one can make Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Sickness; Sisters 40, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh boy oh boy four years to go before Last Line: If we sail at all hey 40's kid stuff Subject(s): Aging; Aids (disease); Middle Age; Sickness 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening a vein he called my radial Last Line: Rubbed my arm, which, once, pricked, had tingled, then bruised Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening a vein he called my radial Last Line: Rubbed my arm, which, once pricked, had tingled then bruised Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 6-AUG-89, by JULIE COOPER FRATRIK Poem Source First Line: It is possible %that this day has not begun Last Line: Overhead, the sky is clear. %the doctors tell him he will not live long Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 80'S MIRACLE DIET, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yours free without the asking Last Line: Before and after and passed away Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's mercy shines Last Line: Into strange sunlit bliss. Subject(s): London; Sickness; Death; Love A BIRTHDAY CARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her eighties now, and weak and ill Subject(s): Aunts; Sickness; Birthdays; Illness A BOUTS-RIMES SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I grew half delirious and quite sick Last Line: Creature had love for me, and others spite. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness; Sleep; Dead, The; Illness A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand-dad, they say you're old and frail Last Line: You do not hear me, dad. Subject(s): Grandparents; Sickness; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Illness A DAY IN BED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had not got a cold Last Line: And waiting to be fed. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear mother, fairest queen and best Last Line: And in a while, you'll tell another tale. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND BODY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, who shall from this dungeon raise / a soul enslaved so many ways? Last Line: Green trees that in the forest grew. Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Soul; Illness A FEVER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh do not die, for I shall hate / all women so, when thou art gone Last Line: Of thee one hour, than all else ever. Variant Title(s): A Feaver Subject(s): Death; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness A FLAT ONE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old fritz, on this rotating bed Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A FRIEND'S ILLNESS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness brought me this Last Line: Against a soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Friendship; Sickness; Illness A GOOD DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain gentleman, whose yellow cheek Last Line: "how! -- why you'll see blue pillars at the door." Subject(s): Sickness; Travel Directions; Illness A HALF-LIFE, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sun today Last Line: Even the gulls above the silver ferry Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness A LETTER, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You write that you are ill, confused. The trees Last Line: Ten years older, tame now, less mad, less beautiful Subject(s): Sickness; Aging; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, make haste: the day's too long; be gone Last Line: By all our loves conjure him not to stay. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life - nay, more Last Line: I here, thou there, yet both but one. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst not understand my words Last Line: Nor any rocking then. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A MOTHER'S PRAYER IN ILLNESS, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Take them first, my father! Let my doves Last Line: Let me find rest beside them, at thy feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Gays & Lesbians; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Sickness; Illness A PRAYER IN SICKNESS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Send down thy winged angel, god! Last Line: And heal our gentle child! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Faith; Prayer; Sickness; Belief; Creed; Illness A RECEIPT TO CURE THE VAPOURS, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will delia thus retire / and idly languish life away? Last Line: I believe the dose will do. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A SICK CHILD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Postman comes when I am still in bed, the Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! Subject(s): Sickness; Imagination; Children; Illness; Fancy; Childhood A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SICK-BED, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long hast thou watched my bed Last Line: When many years are past. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A SONNET. ON CYNTHIA SICK, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Help! Ye nymphs, whilst on the neighb'ring plain Last Line: Then let her suffer in the flames of love. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A STORY OF KING DAVID, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas the harvest-time, and the warrior king Last Line: Could a king do more, or a hero less? Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Enemies; Sickness; Illness A UTOPIAN JOURNEY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a minute the doctor will find out what is wrong Variant Title(s): The Long Vacation Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A WASTED ILLNESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through vaults of pain Last Line: To reach that door. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AARD TIMES, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The aardvark ate red ants. Mistake! Last Line: The best antacid for ant acid Subject(s): Aardvarks; Sickness ADOBE, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: Her eyes are dark almonds, remembering Last Line: So, you will ask, how is your life Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sickness AFTER OPERATION, by JULIET BRANHAM Poem Text First Line: Sick with other ills than these Last Line: Pain is not so long as death. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AFTER SICKNESS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I nearly died, I almost touched the door Last Line: "strong death! Where is thy sting?'" Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AFTER THE DISEASE CONCEPT, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: To say your prayer for being alive Last Line: What we see to keep, we keep Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AFTER THE FUNERALS, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: After the funerals, the questions arise Last Line: Spilling rhythm, even out sweat was silver Subject(s): Aids (disease); Men; Sickness AFTER THE LONG ILLNESS, by TODD HELDT Poem Source First Line: More interesting than pneumonia Last Line: Coiled into that ball of fever, or buried in his chest Subject(s): Change; Fathers; Pneumonia; Sickness AFTER THE VANISHING, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I didn't know what the movie was about Last Line: Nipple, mouth, we make love %in the uncaged air Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness AFTER YOU, by JERL O. SURRATT Poem Source First Line: Sounds of the jungle Last Line: As I fully expected them to, but %from your hands only Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AFTER YOU DIED, by RICHARD MCCANN Poem Source First Line: I had a body again. And I could recall Last Line: Who'd need [or, been] to ask the world for a thing? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness AFTERNOON AT MACDOWELL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a windy summer day the well-dressed Last Line: To find late innings of a red sox game? Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AGAINST ELEGIES, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGAINST ELEGIES, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Last Line: And I, in no one's stories, as we are Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight – it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AIDA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight -- it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We are stretched to meet a new dimension %of love Last Line: As we learn it again, as we bring it alive: %love. Love. Love. Love Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS EDUCATION, SEVENTH GRADE, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The children are blooming like black flowers, Last Line: Shocking in its grace, %fishing for its life. Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness AIDS LIST, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: At breakfast, the aids list Last Line: As lust, as if it were insurance %for what we think we need to know Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS PATIENT, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: A boy could rattle a stick Last Line: His chest a parachute %drifting down with no rider %to rot on the sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS THRILLER, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Now a heart which can't warm Last Line: Reality %a fable Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: In the liberal new york newspaper there are ads Last Line: What lyric is this? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS-RELATED COMPLEX, by CHESTER WEINERMAN Poem Source First Line: I have an earache Last Line: We may rockaby through, possible survivors, %recalling it wasn't as bad as it is Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIR, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open window, a confusion Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness ALIEN HAND, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: It starts with the seizures Last Line: Divided, the swelling memory %of the blade Subject(s): Sickness; Surgery ALL THAT'S LEFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He's riddled with it,' she said Last Line: Is the bit of elbow-grease in bed'. Subject(s): Longing; Sickness ALMOST TO JESUS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: Almost to jesus %the voices began Last Line: Be help. Like a scene %young, old, anyone's Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ALTHEA, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby lasted one whole year Last Line: Whatever is on its breath Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AMID SICKNESS, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: I lie within a closed and empty house Last Line: Yet laugh at myself for making so much of poetry Subject(s): Sickness; Writing And Writers AMORETTI: 50, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long languishing in double malady Last Line: And with one salve both hart and body heale. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Sickness AN APPEAL FOR THOMAS ELLIOT, THE SHOEMAKER POET, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor tom's a-cold!' upon his shrinking head Last Line: Lend to the lord—he surely will repay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Healing; Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Cures; Illness AN APPRECIATION, by RUTH LAMBERT JONES Poem Text First Line: Clinical thermometer, / infallible barometer Last Line: I have proof positive I'm dead! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AN EVENING LULL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a week of physical anguish Last Line: Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness AN UPHILL FIGHT, by MAURICE C. WAUGH Poem Text First Line: You may be ill and you may be sore Last Line: That comes from winning an uphill fight. Subject(s): Sickness; Strength; Illness AND THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the pharmacy yesterday Last Line: In a bathtub of black ink Subject(s): Sickness AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full 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 ANIMA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in feeble health, the hectic on your cheek Last Line: I have not loved you for your face—I've loved you for your soul! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Illness ANSWER IS IN THE GARDEN, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted proof of god's hunger, but no sacrifice Last Line: Suit he wore in life fits me well, too well, like a charm Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness APPLAUSE; FOR PAUL MONETTE, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: Not the glittering shudder in the ear, the high whine of the wasp Last Line: On the seventh day, as he sat back, as he rested Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs ARTIST'S LIFE, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: Because he'd always considered himself an artist Last Line: The blank waiting photoplate of his life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Last Line: Swim? What will I do now, with my hands? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness ASCENSION, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Suddenly, at the climax of making Last Line: And we took our rightful place on this earth Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness ASSISTANCES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paris, london, los angeles - %men seated restlessly in a room Last Line: Balancing between patience and complaint, %until you softly call their name Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AT A QUEEN'S FUNERAL, by ARNIE KANTROWITZ Poem Source First Line: Well, she's gone, and Last Line: It looks like a perfect time for us to go Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AT DAYBREAK, by PEARL FANCOLLY HALLETT Poem Text First Line: Beside the walk / a terraced wall Last Line: At break of day. Subject(s): Decay; Sickness; Rot; Decadence; Illness AT LAST, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always fall in love with tired %women Last Line: Now nothing's %the same Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AT THE NICU, by GEORGE SINGER Poem Source First Line: A nurse pauses by an incubator Last Line: My breath on seeing him, tiny fish Subject(s): Babies; Hospitals; Sickness ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been having these / awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn’t know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been having these %awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn't know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night / and thought, it was a dream Last Line: It was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night %and thought, it was a dream Last Line: Nothing's wrong now, %it was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: Stubborn girl. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: She cradles the wild form. %stubborn girl Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy and tony / can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy and tony %can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUGUST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbor, tall and blonde and vigorous, the mother Subject(s): Neighbors; Sickness; Illness AWA' FRAE GOWRIE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: She wis never that young, she wis never just that bonny Last Line: Gin she's awa' frae gowrie? Subject(s): Love; Sickness; Illness AYE, MON, IT'S TRUE; I'M NO' THAT WEEL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An' doubt na mony bodies are Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sickness BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING Poem Full Text First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze Last Line: Bad dreams. Some days I avoid my reflection in store %windows. I just don't want anyone to loot at m Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor And Laborers; Nurses; Sickness BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BALLADE: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BATHING MY MOTHER, by AVERILL CURDY Poem Source First Line: I raise one light arm Last Line: So I opened my body %to see as much as I could Subject(s): Aging; Baths And Bathing; Mothers And Daughters; Sickness BEAUTIFUL SPRIG, by J. P. WELSH Poem Text First Line: Sprig, sweet sprig, is cobig Last Line: Vaidly try to blow by dose. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness BEAUTY, by DONNA MASINI Poem Source First Line: The optometrist hands me a polaroid of my eye Last Line: And one of my eyes would begin that long turning %inward as I came to see what I'd refused Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BEAUTY KILLS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In virginia %I stalled a while watching a bay horse Last Line: Or what makes him what he is Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BED, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor loves the patient Last Line: Who loves her just as much Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Sickness BEE-EATER, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The killer bees -- aficanized -- have reached san diego Last Line: Oh bees my bees, come take me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BEFORE AND AFTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was too sick to leave the factory Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness BEFORE AND AFTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was too sick to leave the factory Last Line: The bullet, arc and trajectory, the victim Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Sickness BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things within this fading world hath end Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness BEGGING THE QUESTION, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: Fatal, to put an end before the means Last Line: The unanswerable questiosn that it begs Variant Title(s): Petitio Princip Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BEHOLD MY HANDS, by LULA G. WINSTON Poem Text Last Line: We'll feel thy wounds and know the touch divine. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Sickness; Cures; Illness BEIN' SICK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am really sick abed Last Line: When I am sick. Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness BEING SICK OF A FEVER, COMPLAINS OF THE FOUNTAIN CASIS, by GIOVANNI [GIOVANO] PONTANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Casis, to craving fields thou lib'ral flood Last Line: Orpheus appeas'd her with his harp before. Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus Subject(s): Fountains; Sickness; Illness BEING VISITED BY A FRIEND DURING ILLNESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been ill so long that I do not count the days Last Line: Gradually the feelings came back to my numbed heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness; Illness BELINDA'S RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus when the silent grave becomes Last Line: We angels rise, who mortals died. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness BENEDICTION IN PASSING, by IRENE CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Under the clouded road's precipitate edge Last Line: And take your quiet baby to your breast. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: Shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: It was to reach her, if I heard her calling. %shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BIO-DIVINATION, by KRIS CHRISTENSEN MACIAS Poem Source First Line: He squeezes my body onto glass Last Line: His hot forehead warms my cheek. He breath %fills my bruised well Subject(s): Science; Sickness BIOPSY, by ROBERT C. PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: You remembered that it wasn't like Last Line: Like a thought before sleep Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Memory; Sickness BIRDS OF SORROW, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Have almost all migrated Last Line: In our hair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLACK VALENTINES, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I don't know how my mother got my father Last Line: That rocking takes me under in sleep Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness BLOOD POSITIVE: 1: THE CHILDREN WONDER, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What did you do when the thighs of our brothers Last Line: Don't move %your memory or your life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLOOD POSITIVE: 2: THE DEAD SPEAK, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave us alone Last Line: Now take what you need and get out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLOOD TEST, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: As the needle goes into my arm Last Line: The only life we have now Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness BODY'S BETRAYALS, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Even for those of us discovering so late Last Line: No unexpected curve, no hidden exit Subject(s): Betrayal; Sickness BORDER CROSSINGS, by HEATHER DUBROW Poem Source First Line: In the hospital waiting room Last Line: Of the cliff I cannot fence Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness BOUT WITH BURNING, by VASSAR MILLER Poet's Biography First Line: I have tossed hours upon the tides of fever Subject(s): Sickness; Illness BOUT WITH BURNING, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have tossed hours upon the tides of fever Last Line: In my wreck beyond storm's charge and churning %have waked marooned upon the coasts of morning Subject(s): Sickness BOWHEAD'S AMBERGRIS, by DAVID KOEHN Poem Source First Line: That slick ointment, thumbed by a priest Last Line: To the vast ocean, to oceanic dream, to the dark soul Subject(s): God; Sickness BROTHERS GRIEF, by PAUL MARIAH Poem Source First Line: Men in opera Last Line: Of our body politic Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BRUISE OF THIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness BUCKLEY, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Favors castration or failing that a small Last Line: Name and number and I will dance on you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Buckley, William (b. 1925); Homosexuality; Sickness BURNING, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lives, who last night flopped from a log Last Line: Burning a house burning in the wilderness Subject(s): Sickness; Dogs; Illness BY FAITH NOT SIGHT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot get / out of ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness BY FAITH NOT SIGHT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot get %out of ourselves Last Line: Now that he's dead %where can I live? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CABIN FEVER, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: I know I should say, it's january Last Line: By the center of the sky closing %in Subject(s): Fever; Sickness CANCERS (NOT NECESSARILY A LOVE POEM), by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cancers are a serious condition...Attacking internal organs Last Line: Believe then...My doctor never saw you...And doesn't %believe %...In the zodiac Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Sickness CARE AND TREATMENT OF PAIN, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: I came to learn what the well can learn Last Line: Walked out through the cool manhattan rain Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CARNATIONS, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the pool he writes Last Line: Wails on the horizon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CASUALTIES: 1. SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can look the sun in the face Last Line: Though I can look the sun in the face Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss; Sickness; Soldiers CERTAIN LIGHT, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: He had taken the right pills the night before Last Line: And joe said, handsome Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CH'IN CHIA'S WIFE'S REPLY, by MRS. CH'IN CHIA Poem Text First Line: My poor body is alas unworthy Last Line: The tears fall down and wet my skirt. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Sickness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you, like an undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 3. MONOGAMY RESPONDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've lived with him for thirteen years. I cringe Last Line: I wonder, bracing for the next attack Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 9. THE FAILURE OF EMPATHY ON CENTER STREET, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On center street, one finds all: the art Last Line: Your heart is human. Never let it close Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Streets CHARITY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A woman lies on the floor Last Line: Like a flame, while around us %the homeless shivered Subject(s): Charity; Homeless; Poetry And Poets; Sickness CHARM AGAINST ILLNESSES IN GENERAL; CAMBRIDGESHIRE FENLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Make a black cat spin on mutton fat Last Line: And you will have a healing balm %to keep the body free from harm Subject(s): Charms (magic); Sickness CHARM FOR A SICK CHILD, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: We will dream now of a cave Last Line: More ancient than memory. %here is the turn in the tide Subject(s): Charms (magic); Children; Sickness CHASE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I don't remember where he was taking us Last Line: Went limp, as if he'd never seen %a woman before Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness CHURCH-GOING TIM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tim black is bedridden, you say? Last Line: It's not for tim, sir; it's for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness CLOUD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strontium 90 is slowly falling out Last Line: Clouds of the mire ahead of us as we go. Subject(s): Radiation & Radiation Sickness COLD, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: You've swallowed a wool sock, and you've got Last Line: God bless you! My goodness. God bless you! Subject(s): Cold; Self-pity; Selfishness; Sickness COMMANDS OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness COMMANDS OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Last Line: Something to get, something to be done Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness COMMON COLD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go hang yourself, you old m.D.! Last Line: Oh what derision history holds %for the man who belittled the cold of colds! Subject(s): Sickness COMPLAINT OF THE CONVALESCENT, by GERALDINE MEYRICK Poem Text First Line: When you're sick in bed of something Last Line: "lemon jelly, by and by." Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sickness; Illness CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND THE LETTER K, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First inroads were made in our 19-aughts Last Line: Into that placeless place, its nearest image a cloudless %sky at dusk, just before the slow ascent o Subject(s): Aids (disease); K (letter Of Alphabet); Sickness CONVALESCENCE, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To have been a little ill Last Line: To have no one that you miss %this is bliss! Subject(s): Sickness CONVALESCENCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you sit propped in bed / you seem to me Last Line: Sap, I think. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness COUSIN BELL; AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark fir-wud hings ower the burn Last Line: The brithers' hearts for sister bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness CRACK, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday stepped into Last Line: If he can discover crack %my mind slipped into Subject(s): Sickness D.O.A., by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: You knew who I was %when I walked in the door Last Line: Like any, like no other. Not so bad %for the dead Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness DAVID LEMIEUX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first boyfriend is dead of aids. The one Last Line: To reconnect to the ground. We were the ones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness DAVID LEMIEUX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first boyfriend is dead of aids. The one Last Line: To reconnect to the ground. We were the ones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DAY OFF, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: I'm carrying x-rays of my wife's breasts down the hall Last Line: Across her shoulders together we'll float out away %from the antiseptic expert into his holiday gift Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Examinations; Sickness; X-rays DEATH SHOW, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: Real loneliness is having everything, but never being held or em Last Line: His feet, trying to do the dog paddle. Others around him are trying %to eat the money Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DEPARTURE, by PATRICIA FAREWELL Poem Source First Line: From his bed in the dining room he sees Last Line: Silent for the moment he draws his next breath from Subject(s): Children; Death; Sickness DESERT, by MICHAEL CADNUM Poem Source First Line: When we laugh in the desert Last Line: And see the world %that lasts is nothing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DETAINED BY ILLNESS TO HIS CHIEF MESSALLA, by ALBIUS TIBULLUS Poem Source First Line: You will sail the dancing aegean, messalla, without me Last Line: That to our loves a new aurora brings Subject(s): Sickness DIAGNOSIS; E.M.H., 1944-1988, by DAVID CRAIG AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: Friend, yes, the winter following Last Line: Goodbyes, the valedictions of a compass %fixed and tracing at once Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DIALOGUE BETWEEN DEATH AND MRS. AUSTEN, by MARY AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Says death, 'I've been trying these three weeks or more Last Line: To the skill and attention of bowen Subject(s): Death; Sickness DIFFERENT, by FRANKIE KELLER Poem Source First Line: I may have a disease Last Line: I'm supposed to be different Subject(s): Aids (disease); Children; Sickness DINNA CHIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Dinna chide the mither! Last Line: Ye may na hae her lang! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Sickness; Infants; Illness DIRECTIVES FOR THE AFTERWORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When she sat down beside the white bed, his body Last Line: The first inexorable sign of his leaving Subject(s): Death; Hospitals; Sickness DISEASES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Polio rf Last Line: Influenza p Subject(s): Disease; Sickness DISPARATES, SELS., by GORAN SONNEVI Poem Source First Line: I remember now my father's Last Line: Saw me go out with mama %through the sickroom door? Subject(s): Fathers; Hospitals; Sickness DISTANT MOON, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: Of concentration. In a mirror shines %the distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 DOCTOR, by MIRANDA PANARETOU CAMBANIS Poem Source First Line: Your illness is very peculiar Subject(s): Sickness 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 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 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 DOG, ON THE OTHER HAND, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: You can cling to. A dog is not like an abandoned child Last Line: For my dead dog, for those abandoned little bodies %in the babies' home Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Sickness DOLPHINS, by RICHARD HARTEIS Poem Source First Line: Who hasn't at some point succumbed Last Line: Boy drowned at sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dolphins; Environment; Homosexuality; Sea Monsters; Sickness DOXYCYCLENE BLUES, by PHILIP ORR Poem Source First Line: My dick hurts and so does my ex-girlfriend's boyfriends' Last Line: The way things are going, I always will Subject(s): Pain; Sex; Sickness DREAM OF NIGHTINGALES, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: The friday before your funeral I taught Last Line: As you believed he'd be - pure and beckoning? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DRIVING BACK FROM NEW HAVEN, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tim looks at his watch, reaches into his Last Line: I resent that we do not know how to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DUENDE, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: One swollen evening, %warm rain flooded the gutters Last Line: The world around us suddenly %so young Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DURING AN ILLNESS, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: A melting icicle, a leaking tap Last Line: Tibet sees by water. We by tears Subject(s): Sickness ED DYING, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Hate is an old man fucking, arduous Last Line: Reason a man might sit and weep: missing ed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hate; Sickness EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mexico, I met myself one day Last Line: In mexico, they sing so exquisitely Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 FOR JOHN, MY STUDENT DEAD OF AIDS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my office, where you sat years ago and talked Last Line: Saying, at last, who you were--exactly %and to anyone who would listen Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ELEGY WITH TRAINS (1), by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: My friend loved the story of the two men Last Line: Waiting, the whole unspared naked choir Subject(s): Friendship; Railroads; Sickness ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo soul did hear her lips complain Last Line: Would never mwore return. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Mourning; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness EMIGRATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Try being sick for a year Last Line: And you are travelling Subject(s): Sickness; Illness END, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I have hear of the man %whispering into his dying Last Line: The dying back across, holding on, listening Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness ENTICING LANE, by CHRISTOPHER HEWITT Poem Source First Line: If I should be told Last Line: Bombardment, the maelstrom of appointments %which constitutes a life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness EPISTLE TO JAMES MOMTAGUE, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although you have out of your proper store Last Line: Than when they are esteemed and loved best? Subject(s): Hearts; Mankind; Montague, James (1568-1618); Religion; Sickness; Human Race; Theology; Illness ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike Last Line: For all such musings. Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness EULOGY, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: The man in the black suit delivers a eulogy Last Line: Some of us flinch, some do not Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was almost bedtime, and something was wrong Last Line: By both my hands again, and we walked home Subject(s): African Americans; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Streets; Negroes; American Blacks; Illness; Avenues EVERYTHING; FOR MY MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this all life is then Last Line: Everything were under water. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness EXEGESIS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born on a day / that god was sick Last Line: That I masticate... Yet they don't know Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Illness EXEGESIS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born on a day %that god was sick Last Line: That god was sick, %gravely Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness FABLES: 1ST SER. 27. THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no hope? The sick man said Last Line: Then why such haste? So groan'd and dy'd. Subject(s): Angels; Hope; Sickness; Optimism; Illness FAITH-FALLING, by DEBORAH LEA DIGGES Poem Source First Line: Yes! My son has learned to fall by increments each day Last Line: And he was waiting. And he held me. On earth you can say good-bye Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FALLING IN LOVE AFTER FORTY, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Yes to the dark, uneven body of each tree Last Line: Lowering its head to lap at our champagne Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness FALLING SKY; IN MEMORY OF CHESTER WEINERMAN, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This lonely hour in autumn, this thick november sky Last Line: Come on, catch it. You can do it. Catch it' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FATE WORSE..., by STAN PROPER Poem Source First Line: Remember the saying we had %a fate worse than death? Last Line: Free still of terrible pain %for us-terminally ill Subject(s): Sickness FELIX RANDAL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Felix randal the farrier, o is he dead then? My duty all ended Last Line: Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Clergy; Death; Mourning; Sickness; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness FEVER, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: All morning I look at the upside-down Last Line: Glowing bright as new plants above me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness FEVER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have brough back a good message from the land of 102 degrees Last Line: That some secrets ard hidden from health Subject(s): Sickness; Illness FEVER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have brough back a good message from the land of 102 degrees Last Line: That some secrets are hidden from health Subject(s): Sickness FEVER 103 DEGREES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Pure? What does it mean? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fever; Sickness; Illness FEVER 103 DEGREES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pure? What does it mean? Last Line: My selves dissolving, old whore petticoats - %to paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fever; Sickness FIRST AIDS CASE IN SELINSGROVE, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: First, he said, he stepped Last Line: Who swims toward them %with a kind of love Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: On our first anniversary, after %we'd drunk one bottle of champagne Last Line: Of the city inside you, standing on the ledge Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness FIRST SEX, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When we found your father's playboy Last Line: In the dark and entered manhood Subject(s): Aids (disease); Children; Fathers; Homosexuality; Love; Sex; Sickness FLAT ONE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old fritz, on this rotating bed Last Line: No. We'd still have to help you try. We would %have killed for you today Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Sickness FLOWERS AND MUSIC IN A ROOM OF SICKNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Lightly tread! Still tranquilly she sleeps Last Line: Conqueror! Thou son of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Sickness; Theology; Illness FLU, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today, the word means any sniffle or catarrh Last Line: Outside (we descendants following behind), %into -- was it by chance? -- shadow or light Subject(s): Death; Fever; Health; Hospitals; Sickness FOG TROPES, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sheet of water turned over Last Line: Unknowning all, whose pain has just begun Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fathers And Daughters; Sickness FOR DAVID, by FRANKIE PAINO Poem Source First Line: On the way to see a friend Last Line: Even the love, however brief, of a stranger Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR DELIVERANCE FROM A FEVER, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sorrows had begirt me round Last Line: Who hath redeemed my soul from pit, %praises to him for aye Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness FOR GIL AND OTHER INCURABLES, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: Matter? More than anything else Last Line: All your own that only the impossible %can make possible Subject(s): Sickness FOR JED, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It wastes us all, jed, you Last Line: Stays immune forever Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90, by RICHARD HOWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Last Line: That is all I have of you and all %a love deserves Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR MY MOTHER, by JANE REAVILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Like the twenty-ninth of february, it has returned. 'inoperable' Last Line: A purple bud thrusts its tip into the air %of your lung-and I watch, helpless as any audience Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, / its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness; Cures; Illness FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, %its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness FOR MY THIRD COUSIN RAY JOHN, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: I poured salt on slugs when I was a kid Last Line: And I will carry you into the dark dark finish Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR RICHARD, by EVE ENSLER Poem Source First Line: Your tears will come Last Line: Solidly round %like buddha Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR THREE DAYS, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: For three days now I've been trying to think of another word for gratitude Last Line: When the compassionate fist of god opened and crushed her with gratitude ... Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOREIGN ELEMENT, by GREG JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: And so briefly we detained him in the hall Last Line: Its message we don't dare to understand Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FORGIVENESS, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The day is a proch, rain-rotted Last Line: The day I broke out with the hives, %I call it my wedding Subject(s): Sickness FOUR MONARCHYES, SELS., by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next o're the helespont a bridge he made Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: I., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD Poem Source First Line: The whole scene was celestial Last Line: Streamed behind in blinding tails of light Subject(s): Sickness FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: II., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD Poem Source First Line: Her arms were full with herself Last Line: This was a confirmation Subject(s): Sickness FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: III., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD Poem Source First Line: All she could do was nod 'yes' Last Line: To pinch the flames one by one Subject(s): Quarrels; Sickness FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: IV., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD Poem Source First Line: She discovered the thinness of skin Last Line: There was no coming back Subject(s): Sickness; Skin FOURTH, by GREGORY FRASER Poem Source First Line: When, at last, in the shallows of late afternoon Last Line: Already, or whether, drowsily, he hears these %claps in the distance as dull applause Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness FRAGMENT (PROBABLY WRITTEN DURING ILLNESS), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sick of gruel, and the dietetics Last Line: In short, within a word, I'm sick of sickness. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness FRAU HERRMANN, by ELIZABETH STOESSL Poem Source First Line: Housebound and fevered among the pillows Last Line: It is true then: I am beyond saving - %even by the baptists, even by her Subject(s): Death; Girls; Sickness FREDDIE'S ELEGY, by DANIEL M. NESTER Poem Source First Line: Tracing your life since I was 13 Last Line: I see much less than you deserved: %no one knowing, some concerned Subject(s): Aids (disease); Mercury, Freddie (1946-1991); Sickness FROM MY HOSPITAL WINDOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see from my hospital window Last Line: With the conquering eyes of health! Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 1, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: Vito said that without Last Line: Let us now praise famous queers Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 2, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: Last night I danced salsa till 1 a.M. Last Line: Everything is close to the ground Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 3, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: But last night! %last night, my dear Last Line: Platinum and sweet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 4, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: A slender boy-bodied farmworker Last Line: And smiles with his head bowed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 5, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: The morning you died Last Line: From the beak of a bird Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 6, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: Vito and I decided when it's all over Last Line: Every queer I've ever known loved the stars Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if somewhere, away, a dorr had slammed shut Last Line: I can't. I could not save you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if somewhere, away, a dorr had slammed shut Last Line: I can't, I could not save you? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, despite what you believed, that Last Line: We were walking, that we are walking upon them Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, despite what you believed, that Last Line: We were walking that we were talking %upon them Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, again, / a wind that failed to bring storm Last Line: Then we rise; are astounded Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, again, %a wind that failed to bring storm Last Line: Struck down. Then we rise; are astounded Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROZEN STIFF, by BRAD GOOCH Poem Source First Line: It's not that I'm wallowing Last Line: Grow and grow %the more it stays the same Subject(s): Aids (disease); Memory; Sickness FUTURE SEASONS, by DAVID MATIAS Poem Source First Line: The rubber tourniquet tightens by the time Last Line: So full beyond this world Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FUTURE TEXT PANEL, by TORY DENT Poem Source First Line: A fire going is the only sound Last Line: I must wear in my exodus like houdini's chains Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness G-9, by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: I'm at a double wake Last Line: Where I'm supposed to be, %in just the right place Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GALLSTONE, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: A bitter word - a harsh reminder - Last Line: Compassion cornered, the grimace of desire Subject(s): Sickness GET WELL CARD DROPPED IN A PARKING GARAGE, by KIMBERLY HORNE Poem Source First Line: You know, I don't believe in prepared Last Line: Beyond even its own intentions Subject(s): Caregivers; Sickness GETTIN' WELL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When yer really sick abed Last Line: When I've been sick. Subject(s): Children; Healing; Sickness; Childhood; Cures; Illness GHAZALS: 32, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All those girls dead in the war from misplaced or aimed Last Line: And that nurse threw a tumor at you from the hospital window. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood... Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness GIFT, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: The light leaves early these days Last Line: Yet as slow to resolve as my thimbled need Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sewing; Sickness GIFT, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I do not like to remember Last Line: Held out so lovingly to the other Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness GIFTS, by DAVID CRAIG AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: Most of my friends and all of my past Last Line: Blessed the gifts we receive Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GONDOLAS, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been so long since he left his country Last Line: Pummelling columbus's three little ships, %trying and trying to be lifted by it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GOOD TIMING, by CAROL L. EBBECKE Poem Source First Line: Fran, you lay belly up in a bed Last Line: Will hold us all night, and good timing %only touches but some Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GRAVITATION, by CARA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Source First Line: On every floor are children's beds Last Line: Look down from the mezzanine Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Sickness GRIEF UNIVERSAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all Last Line: The globe. Subject(s): Grief; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness GROSSE FUGE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This october morning, %soft lavender bursts above the plymouth Last Line: There is no resolution in the fugue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HALF-LIFE, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sun today Last Line: Theirs is a world of joy trancing %even the gulls above the silver ferry Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HARDEST, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: That's what I've been saying Last Line: Engulfed in cold Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HAVING BEEN ASKED WHAT IS A MAN? I ANSWER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oldest son comes to visit me Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness HAVING IT OUT WITH MELANCHOLY, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, you waited Last Line: Its bright, unequivocal eye Subject(s): Sickness; Illness HEALTH NOTE, by WALTER HARD Poem Source First Line: Ezra perrin's family, on his mother's side Last Line: I feel better when I'm sick %that I do when I'm well Subject(s): Sickness HEARTBEATS, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Work out. Ten laps Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HEARTBEATS, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Work out. Ten laps Last Line: Sweet heart. Don't stop. %breathe in. Breathe out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 HELLO FOR JUDITH CHANDLER, by JIM BODEEN Poem Source First Line: I say using her hello Last Line: The virus in ted %was a kind of medicine Subject(s): Health; Sickness HERE, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Everything extraneous has burned away Last Line: Of telling the hill I'm here oh I'm here Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HERE'S A HEALTH, by JEREMY SAVILLE Poem Text First Line: Here's a health unto his majesty Last Line: With a fa, la, la, la, la, la, la. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Sickness; Illness HIS ANGER, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I can't sleep, I think of his anger. %lying side by side, two Last Line: Yet it will have worth. It will be %with me, always Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness HIS YOUTH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad? Last Line: Hushed his wild words. Well, has he found his youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Youth; Dead, The; Illness HISTORY 11079, by ANDREW STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: Actress %palpable %tumour Last Line: Frightened %as a child Subject(s): Sickness HIV RESEARCH PROJECT, by JEROD SANTEK Poem Source First Line: She tells me it's a simple procedure Last Line: Simple: do not do what you have always done Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HMMMM, by JOEL ZIZIK Poem Source First Line: When jay died, after a whole day of groaning Last Line: Deep in the bowl of the song Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOLIDAY SEASON AT THE WHITE HOUSE, by JUDY MEIKSIN Poem Source First Line: If I were president Last Line: Every night, then invite venus envy %to sing once again Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOLUS BOLUS, by E. G. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: He lay in the hospital, pallid and weak Last Line: "for the blithering camel blew first!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower Subject(s): Accidents; Camels; Sickness; Illness HOMELESS, by BEATRIX GATES Poem Source First Line: Morning sun outside d'agostino's,a young man bends Last Line: His body in his hands Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOMEOPATHY, by PAULA MCLAIN Poem Source First Line: The man howling at the rain on amsterdam might diagnose Last Line: Exhale to impress a new seriousness if you wake unwell %gargle salt and ash while remembering you ha Subject(s): Medicine; Sickness HOSPICE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HOSPICE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Last Line: Are shaken with rumor of this strange good fortune Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOW I WAS TOLD AND NOT TOLD, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the milky sun washing out the sky Last Line: And loose stiches of black %bastes up the night sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness HOW SOME OF IT HAPPENED, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: My brother was afraid, all his life, of going blind, so deeply Last Line: So I can see you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought low in kyoto Last Line: The enemies of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb HOW TO WATCH YOUR BROTHER DIE, by MICHAEL LASSELL Poem Source First Line: When the call comes, be calm Last Line: Warm and friendly and without challenge Subject(s): Aids (disease); Brothers; Homosexuality; Sickness HYMN TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I am coming to that holy room Last Line: Therefore that he may raise the lord throws down. Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Death; Geography; God; Sickness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Illness HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING ON RECOVERY FROM .. ILLNESS, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, o immortals! What had I to plead Last Line: A birth of joy - not like the first of tears and woe Subject(s): Affliction; Healing; Revivals; Sickness HYMN, BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! That in the olive shade Last Line: Hallow this grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness HYMN: ON RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh saviour of the faithful dead Last Line: That thou hast died for me. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness HYPER-, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then a stillness descended the blue hills. Subject(s): Sickness; Teenagers; Illness I HAVE TOLD YOU YOUR HANDS ARE SALT, by JAMES PURDY Poem Source First Line: I have seen your hands asleep Last Line: Command a terrible kiss Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hands; Sickness ICE CUBE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: On the hottest night of the summer Last Line: As you drink our pleasure down Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness IDENTIFYING THINGS, by WENDY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Is diabetes catching, he asks Last Line: It helps, it always helps when you know %what things are Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ILLNESS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Illness is a kind of prison in which the doctor Last Line: I've ever had it's hard to bear or understand why I'm in it Subject(s): Sickness ILLNESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad, sad - lean with long illness Last Line: Deep down still aches as of old! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness; Illness ILLNESS: 8, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk you appear, a school-girl still Last Line: But at night how they clamor for thirst, how glaring %their eyes, the aspirins, the medicine bottles Subject(s): Sickness ILLUSTRIOUS PROVIDENCE OF SOLID TUMORS, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: On the expensive sony screen, cell clusters are zinnias Last Line: In your left earlobe with his long ring finger Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IMPOTENT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With willing hands and a loving heart Last Line: "the welcome plaudit, ""well done, well done!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness IN A SICKBED, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are still here today Last Line: It cries out with the voice of wild geese Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Sickness IN DEAD WINTER, by JOSEPH M. DITTA Poem Source First Line: In dead winter winter's grip loosens Last Line: Life itself cares for what it lives in Subject(s): Sickness; Winter IN HAITI: 5. HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER; DESCHAPELLES, HAITI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the old beggar who sits Last Line: Of haiti under my small straw hat. Subject(s): Death; Haiti; Mothers; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness IN HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE, by CHARLOTTE MAYERSON Poem Source First Line: Without the women of the holocaust Last Line: In the right order - %while he's still alive Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN MEMORIAM: D.K., by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man walking on the street Last Line: No, not again %but still Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics & Criticism; Sickness; Illness IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde Last Line: Within the waters of the grand canal, %and writhes and twists, wrinkles and reassembles Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics And Criticism; Sickness IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ANN BRADSTREET, WHO DECEASED, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With troubled heart and trembling hand I write Last Line: Thou with thy savior art in endless bliss Variant Title(s): In Memory Of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet Who Deceased June 2 Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content Last Line: Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN SICKNESS (1714), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true -- then why should I repine / to see my life so fast decline? Last Line: When known, will save a double sorrow. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Health; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Full Text First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Love; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Last Line: The knots, your whole life %opening in the room Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness IN SICKNESS LIKE SLEEP, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is like this perhaps Last Line: Will gather us into its shade Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dumb hoof Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dumb hoof Last Line: Alone can't account for Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it but / yours, the one hand Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it but %yours, the one hand Last Line: Of conclusion, %all it ever was Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones do not matter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones do not matter Last Line: You are all the stones %that keep missing the glass Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 4, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing stops %for your admiring the hair Last Line: Where things don't wash off Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE HOSPITAL, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Now, his appetite lost, too, he wants Last Line: Seemed capable, almost, of rising Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness 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 LAST DAYS, by PETER EVERWINE Poem Source First Line: In the last days of my father's illness Last Line: In the dark and sped away %as he watched Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness IN THE SHADOWS: 21, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when sunshine and blue sky prevail Last Line: And sink into my habit of despair. Subject(s): Despair; Sickness; Illness IN THE SHADOWS: 5, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, on coughing slightly with sharp pain Last Line: Forgetting that to abolish death christ died. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness IN THE TERMINAL ROOM, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Now spring has turned away. And from the eloquent Last Line: Light Subject(s): Sickness IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are crowded with death Last Line: Carrying in their faces and throughout their bodies %the news of life and death Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE WAITING ROOM, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: St. Gaudens would have known what would suit Last Line: So that he can teach me how to be %content when I take his place at last Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard two neighbours talk the other night Last Line: As when in health to drive it there by art? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Health; Sickness; Small Pox; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Illness INTERIOR OF THE SUN (1), by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: It is the dream of re-entering %eden - innocent and running Last Line: From play. It's summer again %and someone loves her Variant Title(s): The Interior Of The Sun: Subject(s): Memory; Sickness INVALID, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lie spread-eagled on the bed Last Line: As one of your fevered poems Subject(s): Sickness INVASIONS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrupt presentiment of illness Last Line: Waking in a house you thought was yours forever Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Family Life; Aging INVENTORY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness INVENTORY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Last Line: One who wanted to live till his birthday, and did Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness INVIRASE, by RODNEY TYNAN JACK Poem Source First Line: The medicine feels like acid inside me Last Line: This poem, wanting to erase what he said %that has to stay Subject(s): Medicine; Poetry And Poets; Sickness 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 IPECACUANHA, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coughing in a shady grove Last Line: "my damon, I am sick.'" Subject(s): Sickness; Illness IRRELEVANT VIOLET, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: Velvet purple petals like the darkened room where he is tug- Last Line: You. I want to know that the you I know will always be there Subject(s): Change; Metaphor; Sickness ITALIAN LULLABY FOR A SICK CHILD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, dear child, as mother bids" Last Line: "sleep, sleep, and thou shalt be well" Subject(s): Sickness; Illness J CAR, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I used to ride the j church line Last Line: A love he might in full reciprocate Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness JADE, by TORY DENT Poem Source First Line: Upon a plain of thought, a box Last Line: Until finally they collapse within themselves %and vanish into extinction Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness JAMES DEAN AS EURYDICE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I met -- I dreamed of coming up from underneath Last Line: The god chasing the human Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness JANE, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Last summer she was whippet skinny Last Line: In invisible currents sanely %drifting around the bend Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Sickness; Women JOSEPHINE'S GARDEN, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: First thing in the morning Last Line: The sharp edges everything has in this world Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone into the forest Last Line: And every road leads on within %and none leads out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cherokee Indians; Sickness; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) KATE, by KEVIN JEFFREY CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Your best friend Last Line: He never saw any of that %in any distance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness KINDERTOTENLIEDER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight everything becomes musical Last Line: To cold fresh water, then lost heart Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness KINDERTOTENLIEDER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight everything becomes musical Last Line: Of your outstretched hand, its petals %white and black and falling fingers Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Last Line: This difficult, tedious, painful enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness LAMENT FOR HIS VIRTUES AND VERSES, ON THE DEATH OF DON GUIDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was pneumonia in the end Last Line: Completely formal, %the andalusian gentleman! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Pneumonia; Sickness LANDING, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blinds, it must have been the streetlamp I saw Last Line: Tell me who that is beyond the stairwell's next turning now Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LANGUAGE OF HEMOPHILIA, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood pools in a joint Last Line: Pooled %words, this %moment's cryo- %acquittal Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hemophilia; Sickness LAST LINES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look out I see the fair Last Line: Their supple thighs towards the sleek ocean. Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Self; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness LAST RIGHTS, by MARVIN K. WHITE Poem Source First Line: When I learned of gregory's death %I cried silently Last Line: Johnnie walker black %finally in my rightful place Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!, by ISABEL MCLENNAN MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another dab of powder near your eye Last Line: Thank you, dear god. Our mary will get well! Subject(s): Babies; Sickness; Infants; Illness LENTEN TUNNEL, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kneel and retch and pray Last Line: Whatever flows, I answer, %must have found a channel Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LETTERS TO EVELYN BARING, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear baring,- %disgustical to say, I must beg you to thank his excellency Last Line: Yossin seerly, %dwdl(ear) Subject(s): Letters; Sickness LETTERS TO YESENIN: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend. It rained long and hard after a hot week and when I Last Line: Getting brainy and sad, to avoid leaving this physical world. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food & Eating; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Illness LIFE WITH SICK KIDS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One child coughs once Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness LIFE WITH SICK KIDS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One child coughs once Last Line: Thinking I hear the unconceived one %cough a little introductory cough Subject(s): Children; Sickness LIFE'S FALLACY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: All seeming hollow, all thy joys are naught! Last Line: With griefs thou weavest alone in heart. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sickness; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness LISTENING, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: Each morning I lie listening for the suck of the syringe Last Line: That used to do the work of your breathing Subject(s): Memory; Sickness; Sound LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dicky was sick Last Line: "ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sickness; Time; Bedtime; Illness LITTLE GILBERT TO LITTLE RACHEL, DURING HER ILLNESS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rachel! Tell me what you know Last Line: Give you all I have—a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness LITTLE SICKNESS SONG, by RODNEY TYNAN JACK Poem Source First Line: I measure the days Last Line: How many days? Oh my, oh my Subject(s): Sickness LIVING BY I-5, AUGUST 6, 1995, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: No, not the 100,000 year-old ice dam Last Line: Each car has an aura of blue flame Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Fire; Graves; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Radiation And Radiation Sickness 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 LONGING FOR HEAVEN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As weary pilgrim now at rest Last Line: Then come, deare bridgrome, come away! Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness LORD RONALD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O where hae ye been, lord ronald, my son? Last Line: For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain would lie down Subject(s): Children; Sickness LOVE AS AN ARGUMENT IN TIME AND LOSS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Was in the way patroclus touched anger to his skin %in the form of armor Last Line: Was it the ache of the past that made achilles run out %into the bloodletting? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel LOVE POEM, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Love and cancer think small Last Line: Cut me out, you could not survive Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Sickness LOWS OF PHYSICS, by PHILIP WEXLER Poem Source First Line: I can't stand straight Last Line: I'd rather sink %with no one else Subject(s): Sickness LUNCH ON A TRAY: TOASTED FRENCH BREAD WITH RASPBERRY SHERBET, by JENNIFER MOSS Poem Source First Line: When I am sick Last Line: This is who I am. %this is what I want Subject(s): Food And Eating; Sickness LYING SICK, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: Sickness in poverty, true disgrace Last Line: Dawn's sorrows last to twilight sorrows Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe! Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America MALADE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone Last Line: Ah, but I am ill, and it is still raining, coldly raining! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MAMA ROSANNA'S LAST BEAD-CLACK, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting on my couch saying my rosary. I haven't Last Line: To my house and burn my bedding. Lamp of god, kill me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Catholics; Sickness MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness; Illness MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Last Line: The nurse has just come in with another %delicious concoction. The social-worker %awaits... (name wi Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness MAN WITH THE NIGHT SWEATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up cold, I who Last Line: As if hands were enough %to hold an avalanche off Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MANIFESTO, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Unsolicited adam s diagnosed 9/85 Last Line: Bear it we who are losing our reason Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MARCHES, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun just up on the century's earliest equinox Last Line: What march may be like in maybe the year 2000 Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MARGINALIA, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: At first, in catherine's hours of the cross Last Line: Its logic hammered out like filigree Subject(s): Cross, The; Cruelty; Sickness MASSAGE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: As I lay naked on the table Last Line: Sent my torment back to god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness MASSEUSE (1), by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of the dead lie on my table Last Line: I do what I can %with their breath and my hands Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MAXIMUM APERTURE, by ELIZABETH POWELL Poem Source First Line: He said the setting was for maximum aperture Last Line: Hoping his great camera could point out some new information %that might prove helpful in the end Subject(s): Death; Science; Sickness MAYBE THE JAY, by ROBIN BEHN Poem Source First Line: Maybe the jay resting on the eve right now Last Line: Sharp as love's l, filled with sufficient %belief to kill the symptoms Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MEMOIR; FOR J.J. MITCHELL, DEAD OF AIDS 4/26/86, by HONOR MOORE Poem Source First Line: I first remember you in paris, blaze Last Line: Beautiful men, one after another Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness MEMORY UNSETTLED, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pain still hangs in air Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness MEMORY UNSETTLED, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pain still hangs in air Last Line: Though you were sick enough, %and had your own fears too Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MEN MIND NO STATE IN SICKNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flow of gallants which approach Last Line: No joy to thee their sickly lord. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MENINGITIS HONEYMOON, by LAURA BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: It's hours past that impossible midnight drive Last Line: Into my good lungs for all I'm worth Subject(s): Rest; Sickness MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke Last Line: A wrinkle on the water. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism METAPHORS FOR THE BODY IN EXTREMIS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: First I think of it as a factory Last Line: That's coming, it won't change this, this Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MIDNIGHT SUPPER, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Because nothing else can be done, Last Line: Waiting clammily in its little foam tray, and began %to pull it apart. Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness MINOR LITANY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This being a time confused and with few clear stars, Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MISSING, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I watch the progress of the plague Last Line: Back to the play of constant give and change Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MORE GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who stands in the middle of the sick crowd Last Line: Offering gifts of contaminated blood? Subject(s): Blood; Collective Behavior; Sickness 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'S LITANY BY THE SICK-BED OF A CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saviour, that of woman born Last Line: Hear and aid! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness MOTHERHOOD, by ELIZABETH POATE FLEMING Poem Text First Line: How still the house is! Last Line: Lord jesus, heal my little boy! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sickness; Childhood; Illness MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart, my heart goes from me, lord Last Line: He is ill, when will he be well? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness MY DAUGHTER IS ILL IN SPRING AND SUMMER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Things have a lack of season Last Line: In the drowse of night Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sickness MY DIRGE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul Last Line: So far from home to die! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness MY KNEECAPS ARE SWEATING AT 4 AM, by JUDITH STRASSER Poem Text First Line: And I read this as good, a sign Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Sickness; Illness MY MOTHER ASKS IF MEN MAKE LOVE FACE TO FACE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I want to tell her I remember Last Line: As we lie in the world, just like the others Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness MY PARENTS HAVE THE FLU TODAY, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My parents have the flu Subject(s): Parents; Sickness MY SPIRIT-HOME, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: I come, I come from my spirit-home Last Line: In the freedom and peace of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Sickness; Spirituality; Illness NAMING THE ELEMENTS; FOR THE NAMES PROJECT, SAN FRANCISCO, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: The names of the dead Last Line: I am thinking of names %for the air Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NASAL REPRODUCTION, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My nose is clogged with polyps Last Line: Though never wanton wastrels %get in this family way? Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Noses; Sickness NASLA RISK, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: Congressmen should get plenty of rest Last Line: By men with a cold in their nose! Subject(s): Politics; Sickness NAUSEA, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: The tear plunges Last Line: Mirror up the stairs in a dream Subject(s): Sickness NERVES, by MARK RUDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm not really nervous since john warned me about toxic shock Last Line: Turned his cheek away from my lips %when I went to kiss him Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEVADA, by RICK L. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: What home means is a steamy bathroom Last Line: The safe center where they pause to catch their breath Subject(s): Home; Nevada; Sickness NEW FOOD, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: One day we wake and you don't Last Line: A man who knows the end Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: A, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry I've been slower than anticipated in getting back to you on Last Line: These. I admire the way he put them together! %- david stanford, penguin books Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: B, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: A good story begins with a problem Last Line: Journals, printing them on my computer, even binding some of them %with old shirts and cardboard. Wh Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: C, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: I want to be immortal, that my singular perspective will be remem Last Line: Will rest here too. My life work. A star among stars in some seasonal %sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: D, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: Things change, but as of today I remain - in a netherworld that Last Line: Yeah, but you'll never see that,' another friend reassures me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: D, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: I'm prepared for july. The pounding waves call from some future Last Line: What to think? That I've created a mental block. A problem. Or the %grain of sand inside a pearl. So Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHT NURSE GOES HER ROUND, by JOHN HENRY GRAY Poem Source First Line: Droop under doves' wings silent, breathing shapes Subject(s): Nurses; Sickness NIGHT OF 1990, by RICHARD MCCANN Poem Source First Line: What I could not accept was how much space Last Line: Why do you keep forgetting to breathe? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness NIGHT OF WALLY'S SERVICE, WALLY SAID, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people will reflect back to you Last Line: Most people wanted me to come back %but not mark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHT THOUGHTS OVER A SICK CHILD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art Last Line: And so did I, and my three friends are dead Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHTSWEATS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I hear the guttural throatcall Last Line: Lifting your mouth above water, %crying as you sleep Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness NIKOLA TESLA IN BUDAPEST, 1881, by KEVIN MEAUX Poem Source First Line: I felt daylight flame beneath my skin Last Line: And all his thoughts combust into spun stars Subject(s): Sickness; Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943) NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven until they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven till they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NONSENSE COUPLETS: 24, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI Poem Source First Line: People who are wildly raving %seldom do much fine engraving Last Line: Should diarrhea make you sprint %cease work on your mezzotint Subject(s): Art And Artists; Drawing; Sickness NURSE IN THE TERRIBLE DOORWAY, by ERIC ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Calls my name, a clipboard Last Line: But not yet %cured, never cured Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness O HADA CIBERNETICA: 5, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: I find myself -- shinbones Last Line: And fewer days ahead Subject(s): Grief; Sickness ODES II, 17. TO THOMAS STANLEY, BEING SICK OF FEVER, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am not I in thy fever sacrifiz'd? Last Line: Tis sure our mutual stars strangely agree. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Sickness; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Illness ON CHLORIS BEING ILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long the night Last Line: Long, long, &c. Variant Title(s): On Chloris Being Ill Subject(s): Sickness; Illness ON HAIR FALLING OFF AFTER AN ILLNESS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conon was he whose piercing eyes Last Line: A brow serene which happier men adore. Subject(s): Hair; Sickness; Illness ON MAIN, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: He peers through Last Line: Shipshape & %bristol-fashion Subject(s): Sickness ON MY DEAR GRANDCHILD SIMON WHO DIED ... ONE MONTH AND ONE DAY OLD, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep Last Line: Among the blessed in endless joys remain. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY; IN AFFLICTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Withering sorrow wilt thou come Last Line: "though thorns its dewy leaves enclose." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Sickness; Illness ON PHILLIS' SICKNESS, FR. PHILLIS, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How languisheth the primrose of love's garden? Subject(s): Country Life; Sickness ON THE AIDS/HOSPICE WARD, by BERET E. STRONG Poem Source First Line: In bed 17 a man is half missing Last Line: On lips, throat, tongue, leaving him %little -- hands, eyes,pencil and pad Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ONE BY ONE, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children in the life Last Line: Until there's no one left to count Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ONE OF THE ROOMING-HOUSES OF HEAVEN, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed of bobby again Last Line: I can't remember now a single thing he said Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ONE THING WE GOT PLENTY OF, by GLEN DOWNIE Poem Source First Line: Heavy equipment %squats for sale out front Last Line: Yep wind is one thing %we got plenty of up here Subject(s): Aging; Sickness; Wind OPERATION, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: They take all the parts marked x. You watch this in a mirror above the Last Line: Have begun to fly Subject(s): Sickness; Surgery ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORGAN SONGS: WRITTEN FOR ONE IN SORE PAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, on before thy sheep Last Line: Thou wilt miss me—and wilt find! Subject(s): God; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Sickness; Cures; Suffering; Misery; Illness 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 OUT-PATIENTS, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: In alice blue gowns with three sleeves Last Line: Even as it hurts our eyes Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness OUTSIDE THE LANDMARK TAVERN: 2AM, by ANTHONY GAYLE Poem Source First Line: I hear music in the background Last Line: Or the kind that throw you out after 2am Subject(s): Aids (disease); Bars And Bartenders; Death; Sickness PARACHUTE, by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: The bergman image of a game Last Line: To bail out, no bright %parachute beside my bed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: We could almost be taken Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women PATHOLOGIST DICTATES, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: On the phone to the morgue Last Line: A timid and still unsure singing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PATIENT IS NEAR, by BILL RECTOR Poem Source First Line: Death. I change shape constnatly. I am all Last Line: It I almost burst %out laughing - attila the son Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Sickness PESCHANKA, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I read about the man who stood Last Line: In the photograph was taken and %beaten and left to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness PETRARCH; THE PINES, FIRE ISLAND - 1988, by WALTER HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Years shaped like the tree trunks Last Line: Bunched up, hidden, dark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PHONE SEX, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I am so lonely the phone %will do Last Line: To speak and I unable %to forget Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness PICTURES, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: The vet says, either you can give her a shot Last Line: And I say yes, yes, I do, even though I wasn't there Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Family Life; Horses; Sickness PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 10. SEA-SICKNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark-grey clouds of the afternoon Last Line: For thou art terra firma at least! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sickness; Illness PITYRIASIS ROSEA, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say the blood rose, meaning it came to the surface Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PITYRIASIS ROSEA, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say the blood rose, meaning it came to the surface Last Line: Passed on, scattered, or poured back into the earth Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PLAGUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PLAGUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Last Line: As they are still there, we hope, and we are coming Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop Last Line: I'd call a song. This happens every time I try to say good-bye Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Homosexuality; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays And Playwrights; Sickness PNEUMOCYSTIS, by JOEL ZIZIK Poem Source First Line: You had to tell your parents %each part of france and what they grew there Last Line: Your hair felt like it started from deep bones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POEM FOR A POEM, by TORY DENT Poem Source First Line: And the snow fell lightly in cambridge Last Line: Everything I write simply the dissemination of you, %replicating in my body. O my molecule Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POEM TO BEGIN THE SECOND DECADE OF AIDS, by BOYER RICKEL Poem Source First Line: The dog, alive, lucy, my light, sleeps Last Line: Simply drape across a reclining form Subject(s): Aids (disease); Animals; Dogs; Sickness POEMS FOR BUDDY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that same beginning winter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness POEMS FOR BUDDY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that same beginning winter Last Line: With our own %open eyes Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POSITIVE, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: So now you know how blood tricks life Last Line: Open, kevin, enough for the two of us to enter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POVERTY AND ILLNESS, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: Poverty and illness come upon me in succession, leaving me defenseless Last Line: Yet when will the devil of poverty retreat to a remote place? Subject(s): Poverty; Sickness PRAISE OF DISEASES, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, in your courtesy Last Line: And I have slain you for villainy Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Punishment; Sickness PRAYER, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I dream we sit on the porch Last Line: Each other hears, in present tense Subject(s): Prayer; Relationships; Sickness PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally I just lean on the door-frame, a Subject(s): Sons; Sickness; Prayer; Illness PROMISE, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: In the dream I had when he came back not sick Last Line: In a crowded room, something important, and can't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Sickness PROPHYLACTIC, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: You tear the cellophane, %look down at me, pour Last Line: Fills the sack with those %thousand seeds of death Variant Title(s): Prophylactic Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness PUTTING DOWN, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: One day he stumbled Last Line: Death is not sleep. %walking away from him, I stumble Subject(s): Sickness; Walking QUALITY OF WINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness RADIATION, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand in the sun long enough to remember Last Line: Our one original name. Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Nuclear Freeze RADIATION VICTIM, by COLIN THIELE Poem Source First Line: Beneath your cooling coverlet you lie Subject(s): Radiation And Radiation Sickness RADIUM, by JACQUELYN POPE Poem Source First Line: White as primed and sanded canvas Last Line: Illustrating how, lead-heavy, %your body gathers shadow Subject(s): Radiation And Radiation Sickness RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War REASSURANCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About ten days or so Last Line: And, yes, how like my mind %to make itself secure Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RECLINING IN ILLNESS ON THE DAY OF THE FLOWER FESTIVAL, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: Lonely feelings under a vacant window Last Line: By this scene the spirit is wounded even more Subject(s): Sickness RECOVERING FROM SICKNESS, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: This happening goes against the heart Last Line: I recover from sickness, afraid to don spring clothes Subject(s): Sickness RECOVERY, by RON SCHREIBER First Line: Your arms & legs are shrunken Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness RECOVERY, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Your arms & legs are shrunken Last Line: Bright, gaudy red flower, full %in the sun, as wide as an arm Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RECOVERY #22, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distant himalayas' orange groves' Last Line: In private language illness maimed %the poet signs his blessing Subject(s): Sickness; Strength RED RIBBON FOR JANE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The chinese evergreen that jane gave me Last Line: Grows the message of the red ribbon Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Friendship; Healing; Sickness RED SUSPENDERS, BOXES OF CIGARS, by JOSEPH HANSEN Poem Source First Line: I'm wrong and know I'm wrong but can't help think Last Line: I couldn't spare you. Phone me any time Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness REDEFINING NORMAL, by KAREN J. MILLER Poem Source First Line: On your first day home you hand me a plant Last Line: Reminding me of hands folded in prayer Subject(s): Relationships; Sickness REMEMBERING THE MAN WHO MOLESTED ME, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: His mouth opens and closes like a hinged Last Line: You may now have this child Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness REMISSION, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: When all my symptoms melt away like ice Last Line: And the clear sign of breath when I exhale Subject(s): Sickness RETROVIR, by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: Turn %back oh man Last Line: Of grass and fountain separates %to blue and white Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness REVIEW, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't the worst movie %I've seen about aids Last Line: It was your face, & I wept Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (1), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear henley, with a pig's snout on Last Line: To make me uglier than I am. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Sickness; Illness RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stares %at the doctor Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness RITE OF PASSAGE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After my friend tom passed a kidney stone Last Line: We laughed, peed out the fire, and went home Subject(s): Pain; Revenge; Sickness ROUNDS, by BILL RECTOR Poem Source First Line: You are with me. %you cannot hear Last Line: How are you, manuel, %to show him my voice, who I am Subject(s): Death; Sickness 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 RUSH TO ENDING, by KEVIN JEFFREY CLARKE Poem Source First Line: A cold fire sings in us Last Line: The darker, truer address of all its music Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SACRAMENTS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Along lower broadway where we walk Last Line: Transformation is what even the sea desires Variant Title(s): Sacraments: Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 2, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Out the window snow is falling, dawn over 13th street Last Line: From her husband's face, the sound of rosary, %the weakness of language Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 3, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: In church, the men in black make their bodies Last Line: Rise between us, to call out love to this man Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 4, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Body of holiness, body of light, arms in the shape of the cross Last Line: This temple of pure life, I say mass on his chest Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 5, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow Last Line: We lived in the valley, built a home in the shadow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 6, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When christ met the punk rocker on the road Last Line: And the boy's tongue hung black from his red mouth Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 7, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: All along the beach suburban houses burn Last Line: When I open my eyes all our places are gone and I stand alone Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRED ANUS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: You are putting your finger on the place %never spoken Last Line: That is not fucking me but is the music %my body's a string for Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SAFEWAY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after an hour in her room Last Line: From what couldn't be saved Subject(s): Sickness; Mothers; Illness SAMANTHA QUITS GROWING, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: From ultrasound to ultrasound Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Grandchildren; Growth; Sickness; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Illness SANDOR VADAY, WITH HODGKIN'S DISEASE, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: This wreath of herbs Last Line: Making room for death Subject(s): Disease; Medicine; Sickness SATIRES: 1. THE STATE PROGRESS OF ILL, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say, 'tis hard to write satires, though ill Last Line: Compos'd as then: few men and many beasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sickness; Illness SCENE OF THE CRIME, by DAVID GROFF Poem Source First Line: Going home near dawn from the last great party Last Line: He wonders if they were lovers. Did the lovers burn? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SCRAWL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear ann- %I conjecture you'll like it no worse Last Line: Or on sunday (I'll try to remember the text!-) %and stay Subject(s): Letters; Sickness SECOND HELPING, by DOUG DORPH Poem Source First Line: Since the heart attack, I come up the stairs Last Line: In my extra life, I don't Subject(s): Family Life; Health; Hearts; Sickness SECOND LAW, by STEPHEN SANDY Poem Source First Line: Beside the bed I watch Last Line: Knowing, letting him, letting him, %go Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SEIZURE, by FREDRICK ZYDEK Poem Source First Line: It starts somewhere deep Last Line: Puddle shivering in the cold Subject(s): Dreams; Sickness SELF-PORTRAIT, COLLAGE, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scrap of used envelope Last Line: A love of order, %if only the order of art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Pittman, Gael (1953-1990); Sickness SFO/HIV/JFK, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew his job was more than cleaning up Last Line: Feeding myself in some airport snack bar, %smell of a stranger's sex on my fingers Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SHE WAITED TO DIE UNTIL YOU CAME, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sister says, her sentence tinged Last Line: Of everything; we're all fine-really. %you can go' Subject(s): Death; Sickness SHIP POUNDING, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning I made my way Last Line: On the cross still twisted under the sun Subject(s): Ships And Shipping; Sickness SHORT JOURNEY: FOUR MONTHS AFTER DIAGNOSIS, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: After many tests we have a name Last Line: With the narrow %gold band Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SICK BED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half dead with fever here in bed I sprawl Last Line: My face in pillows, praying for merciful sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Books; Sickness; Reading; Illness SICK BOY, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Illness falls like a cloud upon Last Line: Kindness speaks from a far mountain - %cannot touch their pain Subject(s): Children; Sickness SICK I AM AND SORROWFUL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sick I am and sorrowful, how can I be well again Last Line: Here, where fear and sorrow are — my heart so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Sickness; War; Dead, The; Illness SICK SONGSTRESS, by LU QINGZI Poem Source First Line: She leans for support upon a silver screen Last Line: To rain in the night, falling faster Subject(s): Sickness SICKLINESS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is strength, here Last Line: And the bugle of that manner shall call out the regiments of my tented soul. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness SICKNESS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we were never stretched in bed, with sickness Last Line: "neighbors are!" Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Health Resorts; Sickness; Spas; Illness SICKNESS OF FRIENDS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Do I give off in the wee Last Line: But I'm fine, unmarked, floating %in the bath of their self-love Subject(s): Sickness SIMPLE QUESTION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you hear me? Do you / understand Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness; Illness SKIN, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When you come out of the bathroom Last Line: The danger we so easily could share Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SLOW DRAIN OF TIME, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: It's the third time she has found him Last Line: While you look at nothing at all Subject(s): Sickness; Time SNIFFLE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spite of her sniffle Last Line: And when she is snuffly %she's prefectly luffly Subject(s): Sickness SO WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: On the train to d.C., a priest sat beside me, and outside phillie Last Line: All I wanted was to hear them, please %calling each other Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SOME KIND OF A WHISPERED THREE-BEAT LARGO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say something good %about emphysema. No? Last Line: At your next departmental meeting Subject(s): Sickness SOME THINGS SHOULDN'T BE WRITTEN, by DAVID MATIAS Poem Source First Line: During my battle with mycobacterium avium intracellulare Last Line: And over the metal roof, flung to god knows where Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 1. AFTER GRAVE ILLNESS, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body has two seasons Last Line: Things simply are Subject(s): Sickness; Illness SONNET TO SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER; WITH THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I have twice been at the doors of death Last Line: The murmuring esk: -- may roses shade the place. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): From A Cypress Grove Subject(s): Alexander, Sir William (1567-1640); Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Illness SONNET: 9. HOPE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, by wasting sickness worn Subject(s): Sickness; Hope; Illness; Optimism SPANISH, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mom worried that I was sick Subject(s): Mexican-american Families; Sickness; Illness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 101, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My poor heart Last Line: The sickness of which I die Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Last Line: Hope the old hole stays young %till death, relax Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 1. AIDS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: You know the cause of death but not my name Last Line: Knowing whose time is up and whose is down Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 15. THE GARLAND, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: You know the cause of death but not our names Last Line: The shards of your life like a prophecy Subject(s): Death; Sickness SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 3. CANCER, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a word infects and then inflames Last Line: Down the polluted streams and out of town Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Sickness STANZAS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hopes that allured me Last Line: Tis the scream of the vulture despair at his prey. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness STILL ALIVE, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: He slept through the night Last Line: Tell him so Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness STILL LIFE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget Last Line: The tube his mouth enclosed %in an astonished o Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness STILL LIFE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At moments almost thinking of her, I was Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE: IN THE EPIDEMIC, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light / old leaf spine Last Line: Green, blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE: IN THE EPIDEMIC, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light %old leaf spine Last Line: Chew me, gingerly, like chewing ice, %eat me. My america. Eat me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness STREET NAMES, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: I read all the names of the streets as we drove to visit him Last Line: And see them populated with no one I now love Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mothers; Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Last Line: And consume so they become the only world Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that general rule which tells Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is that general rule which tells Last Line: Spread stunned before me. These hands Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Last Line: So we can make a street, so we can make a neighborhood Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Last Line: At me & wanted to be me. And I didn't care Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Last Line: Death I am tired of you Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Last Line: Of voices winged over water, becoming %water, & gone Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Last Line: Each fugitive moment the heaven we choose to make Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUMMER AT THE JARDIN D'HIVER, by RICHARD MCCANN Poem Source First Line: We paid six francs to see dionaea muscipula [or, droseraceae], dead flies Last Line: Than a glass dome over %extravagant forced blooms? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 SUN AND MOON, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged and drowsy but not asleep Last Line: On the table in the hall Subject(s): Sickness; Illness SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War SUNG FROM A HOSPICE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still craving a robust Last Line: Was tested %my living soul %struck like a tower bell, %once,twice, %four times in a single season Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SURGICAL CONSULTATION, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: My father said Last Line: In the dark %meat of daughters Subject(s): Family Life; Sickness SYNDROME, by ROBERT LOUTHAN Poem Source First Line: When we're done with this embrace Last Line: Go up and tell god I want you rocked in his lap, %and when he does it fuck his brains out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TAKING CARE, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: When I took care of you, I grew as swans Last Line: Going home, it seemed a vast interruption Subject(s): Caregivers; Love; Sickness TALKING TO JIM, by WALTA BORAWSKI Poem Source First Line: So nothing is left of your agony Last Line: Said in the living room. No one %was reaching for the camera Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TEARS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All spring the grim machines ground out the verdict Last Line: Don't cry in an open wound,' news headlines blazoned. %'ai ds-related virus found in tears!' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TEDDY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Och teddy alanna, would ye lave me alone Last Line: "yit father o'day is a power in the lan'." Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness TERMINAL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eight years' difference in age seems now Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TERMINAL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eight years' difference in age seems now Last Line: I think of oedipus, old, led by a boy Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TERMINAL ORIENTE: BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CESAR VALLEJO, by JASPER BERNES Poem Source First Line: I don't suffer this pain like cesar vallejo Last Line: Unclassifiable in his suffering Subject(s): Death; Sickness THAT THING, by MARVIN K. WHITE Poem Source First Line: He still singing in the choir %he still loving men Last Line: He still sometimes real still Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THE AMBULANCE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see in our bustling town Last Line: For a breath of heaven in the darkest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Healing; Hospitals; Red Cross; Sickness; Cures; Illness THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT; TO AN UNKNOWING GOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much wonder I - here long low-laid Last Line: The mercies thou wouldst show! Subject(s): Peasantry; Sickness; Illness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway. Subject(s): Death; Language; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Illness THE BRUISE OF THIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness THE CALL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lunged out of sleep toward the ringin Last Line: For a moment like still more rain Subject(s): Sickness; Mothers; Rain THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careless lad went through the wood Last Line: Who never looked behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you in its undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THE COMMON SICK, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All we had heard was of wounded men Last Line: Just to live and die.) Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE DARK, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Agitated, rolling in her barred bed Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Hospitals; Illness THE DISTANT MOON, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: The distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness 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 DREAM, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dna chains spirals upward Last Line: My body through / like a bone Subject(s): Sickness THE DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it out - thirsty - put my teeth in my mouth Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sickness; Women; Illness 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 FEAR OF MADNESS; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is something which I dread Last Line: (final poem) Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Insanity; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness; Illness THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; 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 Full 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 FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOX, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quest brought a gray fox to the field behind my house Last Line: And the long brown yard stretching toward the gray house. Subject(s): Foxes; Sickness; Illness THE GENTIAN WEAVES HER FRINGES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And of the breeze — amen! Subject(s): Sickness; Nature THE HOSPITAL NURSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know when I am dead?' Last Line: "and for thy love to worship thee." Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Illness THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16 Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE MAN WITH THE NIGHT SWEATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up cold, I who Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say a tempest is abroad to-night Last Line: "and say to her, "" arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness THE MISSING, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I watch the progress of the plague Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The peninsula seen from the hills near bath Last Line: Where, once, there was a peaceful, tropical ocean. Subject(s): Ghosts; Moths; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Supernatural; Illness THE NEW DEATH, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greater than thou art dead, fear not Last Line: Know what was that new death they knew! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE NIGHT OF WALLY'S SERVICE, WALLY SAID, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people will reflect back to you Last Line: Most people wanted me to come back, / but not mark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE PATIENT LOVERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is an illness still to be Last Line: That we are ill, of being well. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sickness; Women; Women's Rights; Illness; Feminism THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood by the window Last Line: "o mary, blessed be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the window stood the mother Last Line: "praise, mary, be to thee!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood at her lattice Last Line: "o mary, blest be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE REASSURANCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About ten days or so Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE RIGHTFUL ONE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my son burst out of his room Last Line: Was gone and left a power to feel free Subject(s): Sons; Sickness; Forgiveness THE SHIP POUNDING, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning I made my way Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sickness; Illness THE SICK CHILD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy fevered arms around me Last Line: "oh! Not my will but thine." Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He for whom the world was made Last Line: In his mother's heart, dear lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK CHILD IN KENSINGTON, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the gardens / where lemon trees / bloom? Are they gardens Last Line: My gardens so still? Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK ROOM, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and a starry shower Last Line: Of suffering, and of sorrow's room. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE SICK-BED, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: O have you watched beside the bed Last Line: There's no repentance in the tomb. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness 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 TRANSPARENT MAN, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mighty glad to see you, mrs. Curtis, Last Line: And sat here and let me rattle on this way Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE VALLEY OF DEATH (4-25-86), by RON SCHREIBER First Line: John didn't die, he hasn't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EUTHANASIA (WRITTEN AFTER LONG ILLNESS), by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring to the world, and strength to me, returns Last Line: A finer fervor trembles on its face. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Euthanasia; Sickness; Travel; Illness; Journeys; Trips THE WEE SHOP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking Last Line: She coughs a lot -- she hasn't long to live. Subject(s): Paris, France; Sickness; Illness THERE WAS A TIME, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when this poor frame was whole Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Sickness THINKING ABOUT BILL, DEAD OF AIDS, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We did not know the first thing about Last Line: We didn't know what look would hurt you least Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THIRD PERSON NEUTER, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THIRD PERSON NEUTER, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Last Line: I'm made of it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THIS IS THE DOUBLE BED WHERE SHE'D BEEN BORN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And then entered straightaway into heaven Subject(s): Aids (disease); Beds; Sickness THIS KNOWING, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I look down at my lover's %penis-the fur stole Last Line: Of the one who takes you there, %singing, this marriage Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness THIS MORNING'S LECTURE IS OF IONIZED, by J. M. REGAN Poem Source Last Line: They are the megadead - oh dysthymic! %oh vector! This nobleepidemic! Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 1. INTELLECTUAL POWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thought! O memory! Gems for ever heaping Last Line: Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Reason; Sickness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 2. SICKNESS LIKE NIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art like night, o sickness! Last Line: Before whose touch my soul unfolds itself to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 3. RETZSCH'S DESIGN OF THE ANGELS OF DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well might thine awful image thus arise Last Line: So fast around my soul, it cannot spring to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 4. REMEMBRANCE OF NATURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nature! Thou didst rear me for thine own Last Line: To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstained. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 5. FLIGHT OF THE SPIRIT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, oh! Whither wilt thou wing thy way? Last Line: Knowing but this -- that thou shalt find thy guide! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 6. FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o pure and lovely forms, again Last Line: Whether the couch be that of life or death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 7. RECOVERY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back, then, once more to breast the waves of life Last Line: Wafting sweet airs of heaven thro' this low world obscure. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS ON MY SICK BED, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And has the remnant of my life Last Line: I thought of nature's loveliest-scenes; %and with memory I was there Subject(s): Nature; Sickness THREE MEN SPEAK TO ME: 1. TONY, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: That summer we rode giant white frisbees Last Line: Needed six days - never knew what hit me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THREE MEN SPEAK TO ME: 2. DAVID, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: They would stand outside the shop on bleecker Last Line: I should have gone to live in france in sixty- %eight, like I'd planned to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THREE MEN SPEAK TO ME: 3. SHELDON, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: Writing a will was the difficult part Last Line: The aisles at southeby's, attended every %auction: it was all I ever loved Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THREE MILE ISLAND, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't drink the beer that's brewed in pennsylvania Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Radiation And Radiation Sickness 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 THROWING THE VOICE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her room alone, she looks for it Last Line: Again for what she lost, that small thing, %smooth and shiny as bear fur Subject(s): Sickness THURSDAY THOUGHTS OF A POET, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't feel very well today Last Line: Today I don't feel very well Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sickness TIARA, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: But ask for it? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TIARA, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: What could any of us ever do %but ask for it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TINY TRUCKS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Careful on roadways, he's the genius engineer Last Line: Of their fearsome engines hushed Subject(s): Roads; Sickness; Trucks And Trucking TO --, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick, how patiently thou sat'st beside my bed Last Line: Forgive, forgive, my -------, the selfishness of man! Subject(s): Caregivers; Debt; Sickness; Illness TO A FRIEND (CHAFING AT ENFORCED IDLENESS FROM INTERRUPTED HEALTH), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon may the edict lapse, that on you lays Last Line: And life a tragedy of errors made. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A FRIEND, WHO SENT ME FLOWERS, WHEN CONFINED BY ILLNESS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sickness still my step detains Last Line: Shall soften half the winter's gloom! Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Sickness; Illness TO A LADY IN ILLNESS, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New to the world, when all was fairy ground Last Line: Thy beauty deeply is engraven there. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A LADY RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life plucks thee back as by the golden hair Last Line: Ev'n such a prey as thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A LADY RECOVERING FROM SICKNESS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is a charm in the pallid cheek Last Line: And soft as the breathing of sorrow's sigh. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A RESIDENT FLU FAMILY, by HOWARD DIETZ Poem Text First Line: Little pneumococci, / tiny germy things Last Line: Out and slam the door! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO A SICK FRIEND, by HANNAH WALLIS Poem Text First Line: Dear girl, you're growing very thin Last Line: Than longer living here. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness TO ANTHEA (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick is anthea, sickly in the spring Last Line: Each bending then, will rise a proper flower. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness 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 GB FROM TUSCANY, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Always wondering what's left besides us Last Line: Even when the days grow short. Such light Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO HER FATHER WITH SOME VERSES, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most truly honored, and as truly dear Last Line: Such is my bond, none can discharge but I, %yet paying is not paid until I die Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO HER MOST HONOURED FATHER, THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir of late delighted with the sight Last Line: Then water in the boundless ocean %flows Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO JOSEPH, by ELIZABETH SULLAM Poem Source First Line: Latex drips over new york skyscrapers Last Line: Classic hand, the sky releases a rain of old coins Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO MARY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twentieth year is well nigh past, / since first our sky was overcast Last Line: My mary! Variant Title(s): My Mary;to The Same (mary Unwin) Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sickness; Unwin, Mary; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY DEAR MOTHER IN SICKNESS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Hang not thy harp upon the willow Last Line: There's calm and peace beyond the grave. Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Sickness; Paradise; Illness TO SICKNESS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, disease, dost thou molest Last Line: None but them, and leave the rest. Subject(s): Sickness; Small Pox; Illness TO SLEEP, WHEN SICK OF A FEVER, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are we who when our senses tire Last Line: Whom none could e'er but with clos'd eyelids see. Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness TO STELLA, VISITING ME IN MY SICKNESS, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pallas, observing stella's wit Last Line: Materials for an house decayed Subject(s): Sickness TO THE DEAD OWNER OF A GYM, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will remember well %the elegant decision Last Line: An absence with its cutting line, %alas, %lacks class Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO THE EDITORS FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S MOTHER, MARY ROSE MACINTYRE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sirs, %my childhood was filled with stories of the 'flu epidemic of 1918-1919 Last Line: Signed %mary rose macintyre Subject(s): Epidemics; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sickness TO THE MEMORY OF ... THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ., by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By duty bound and not by custom led Last Line: And when his time with years was spent, %if some rejoiced, more did lament Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the letter I wrote Last Line: That's my work in life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the letter I wrote Last Line: And the ghost letter, underneath -- %that's my work in life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TONY: ENDING THE LIFE, by JAMES G. MERRILL Poem Source First Line: Across the sea at alexandria Last Line: Just you head, nodding off in window-glass Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TOURETTE'S, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: The curse // he cannot cut Last Line: Jismed jazz // language the stick %//his head the rattled cage Subject(s): Disease; Sickness; Speech TRACKS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: After we'd made love all %night, and morning like a gauze Last Line: Through the forest I keep following you back to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Forests; Homosexuality; Hunting; Love; Relationships; Sex; Sickness TRAVEL, by LESLEY DAUER Poem Source First Line: I sent a letter to a dying friend Last Line: Tentatively, as if into a pool Subject(s): Sickness; Travel TREATMENT, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The doctor drops his black bag Last Line: To see and be drawn to Subject(s): Sickness TRIAGE, by BEN WILENSKY Poem Source First Line: You are sick and you are sane Last Line: I raise you because I'm sick. %exonerate, and let me work Subject(s): Sickness; Survival TRILOGY FOR A FRIEND WHO TOOK TO HIS BED: 1. HIMSELF, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: I cannot count the many months and years Last Line: What must be done till the very day I go. Subject(s): Sickness TRILOGY FOR A FRIEND WHO TOOK TO HIS BED: 2. HIS WIFE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Once again I wish him dead Last Line: And yet, at last, thank god it dies. Subject(s): Sickness TRILOGY FOR A FRIEND WHO TOOK TO HIS BED: 3. HIS SON, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: My father curls up in his bed Last Line: And will not die till we are dead. Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness TRISTIA: TO HIS WIFE AT ROME, WHEN HE WAS SICK, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest! If you those fair eyes (wondring) stick Last Line: Which though I want, I wish it thee, fare-well Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Mourning; Sickness TRYING TO FLEE A DARK BEDROOM, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: We could %have death, turning on Last Line: Failing to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TUNNEL, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, if ever. / when it is raining this gentle Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness TUNNEL, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, if ever. %when it is raining this gentle Last Line: The wounds are to be %left open Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Last Line: Of polished tortoise - I do not want you ever to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness TWILIGHT VOICES (IN ILLNESS), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the whispering voices Last Line: In the early, early morn. Subject(s): Evening; Sickness; Sunset; Twilight; Illness TWO LESSONS FROM THE SKY: 1. AFRICA, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think too much about the devolution of Last Line: Those sad eyes that look down on a minuscule, %blurred world Subject(s): Africa; Sickness TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 1. INVESTITURE AT CECCONI'S, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caro, that dream (after the diagnosis) Last Line: Miles away, sick, fearful - have yet arranged this %heartstopping present Variant Title(s): Investiture At Cecconi' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Variant Title(s): Farewell Performance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Last Line: Seen where it led you Variant Title(s): Farewell Performanc Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness UN CHANT D'AMOUR', by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before you - / at the movies Last Line: Of a busy village street Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992); Illness UN CHANT D'AMOUR', by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before you - %at the movies Last Line: To our collective %disintegration Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992) UNALTERED BY SICKNESS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, in vain thou dost invade Last Line: For what's her beauty, is our fate. Subject(s): Love; Sickness; Illness UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 13. TO H. F. BROWN (WRITTEN DURING A ... SICKNESS), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and wait a pair of oars Last Line: Light at your pipe my cigarette. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Sickness; Illness UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 26. THE SICK CHILD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, lay your hand on my brow! Last Line: And dream of the birds and the hills of sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness UNHAPPY RETURNS, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: With all the sinister abruptness of Last Line: And, yesterday, a minatory, faint %voice, 'it's nemesis - remember me' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bear that breaths the northern blast Last Line: And heavenly musick, furr'd with praise. Variant Title(s): Upon A Wasp Child With Cold Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Sickness; Wasps; Illness; Yellow Jackets UPON FOUR DISMAL STORIES IN THE DOCTOR'S LETTER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here four of you got mischances to plague you Last Line: Yet he gets home at night with health and whole bones Subject(s): Sickness UPON JULIA'S RECOVERY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droop, droop no more, or hang the head Last Line: As beames of corrall, but more cleare. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness UPON MY FATHERS SUDDEN & DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Though sad this lesson be to me Last Line: Deaths ev'n shall be the dawn of life to me. Subject(s): Fathers; Grief; Mortality; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness UPON PRUDENCE BALDWIN HER SICKNESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prue, my dearest maid, is sick Last Line: Offer'd up by her, to thee. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness UPON THE KING'S SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, the minister of death, doth lay Last Line: Shows a good king is sick, and good men mourn. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sickness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Illness UPON THE SICKNESS OF ELIZABETH SHELDON, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must she then languish, and we sorrow thus Last Line: Convey into his hand thy golden dart. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness UPON TOM CAREW HAVING THE POX, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Troth, tom, I must confess I much admire Last Line: For evermore the water runs away. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness USEFUL MACHINE, by RON MOHRING Poem Source First Line: Programmed to operate without commands, this amazing unit Last Line: What does this make me? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness UTOPIAN JOURNEY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a minute the doctor will find out what is wrong Variant Title(s): The Long Vacatio Subject(s): Sickness VALLEY OF DEATH (4-25-86), by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: John didn't die, he hasn't Last Line: His brain will work %or it won't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 ON THE RECOVERY OF A. M. G. FROM A SEVERE ILLNESS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden in the arms of death Last Line: And closed the opening grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Faith; God; Healing; Prayer; Sickness; Belief; Creed; Cures; Illness VETERAN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before the fear of blackmail and police Last Line: And put sex away, probably forever Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Aids (disease); Erotic Love; Sickness VICTORIA (ON LEARNING THAT THE QUEEN'S CONDITION WAS HOPELESS), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her reign: the greatest that this realm hath seen Last Line: Than hers, so bravely borne! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sickness; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Illness VINDICTIVENESS OF RELIGION, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: His tummy a Last Line: Stilling the %living waters Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness VISIT THE SICK, by JAMES J. METCALFE Poem Source First Line: There is no person lonier Last Line: There must be time to call on him %and say hello today Subject(s): Sickness VISITATION OF THE SICK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The father would yell at her from the table Last Line: Into the opening of that undying moment Subject(s): Sickness VISITING CABBAGE EARS, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 3, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Mae jean showed me how to fake being sick. After the buses leave, you tell Last Line: Rest and an envelope full of little white pills which we threw away as soon as %we got back Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans - Women; Schools; Sickness VISITOR'S PASS [ -FOR ELLY], by ROBIN SILBERGLEID Poem Source First Line: Hovering near the ceiling fan Last Line: Back to school I took my meds %vomited the smell of carnations Subject(s): Sickness WAITING, by DONALD W. WOODS Poem Source First Line: My feet mark the passage of time Last Line: Learn against the buzzer %and wait for the time to come Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WAITING IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reflect on my son's crying [or, on this desperate note] Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Sickness; Childhood; Illness WAITING ROOM, by SPENCER SMITH Poem Source First Line: The woman next to me is rocking Last Line: And the gray woman pats my knee and I am cold Subject(s): Medicine; Sickness WAITING TO DIE, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Takes longer now: whole pharmacies of pain Last Line: All your waiting done. So go in bloom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WALKAWAY, by GREG RAPPLEYE Poem Source First Line: Bobby runs from the day room Last Line: The endless stupid drone of it Subject(s): Escapes; Freedom; Sickness WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WASTE NOT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're using every bit of your death Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WASTE NOT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're using every bit of your death Last Line: I'm wading in the swift river, balancing on stones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WATCHING DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, by JEROD SANTEK Poem Source First Line: Yesterday you got the call %that charlie died in new york Last Line: I remember you waking, %how I claimed you as my own Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WATCHING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE WITH AIDS PATIENTS, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: To save our retinas, we slip your x-rays Last Line: Across his knees, tulips for all of us in his arms Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WAX FATHER, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb Last Line: His entire body hung there Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness WE ARE STRONG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was this a test? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Loss; Sickness WEAKNESS, by BERNARD O'DONOGHUE Poem Source First Line: It was the frosty early hours when finally Last Line: Of the shocked boy's twenty-year-old jacket Subject(s): Farm Life; Sickness WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Last Line: Later. You could keep it to yourself. You won't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WEDNESDAY MORNING, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning blood on my pillow Last Line: Upstairs inside me is dying %not the first death Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WEIGHT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Outside the hospital one afternoon Last Line: Would simply crush him as it rolled back down Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 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 HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has / an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness; Illness WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has %an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness WHAT LITTLE SAUL GOT, CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us parents mostly thinks our own's Last Line: "I'm got the pleurisy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; Illness WHAT STOPS ME SOMETIMES DOCTOR, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source Last Line: I'm nothing but %junk Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness WHAT THE INTERN SAW, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: He saw a face swollen beyond ugliness Last Line: It isn't far. %people live there Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHAT THE LIVING DO, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably... Last Line: I am living. I remember you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHEN THE DUST SETTLED THE DOW ...', by CHUCK WACHTEL Poem Source First Line: One clear source of distress Last Line: Funds for aids research.' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Stock Exchange WHERE YOUTH GROWS PALE, AND SPECTRE-THIN, AND DIES, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: In the photograph %the dying man begins Last Line: And bone, the fact %of the light, the myths Variant Title(s): Where Youth Grows Pale And Spectre-thin, And Die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness WHILE GETTING WELL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sits on my window-sill Last Line: I think he understands! Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Sleep; Childhood; Illness WHILST THE ONE BODY REFERRED TO ITS WOUND AS IT ANOTHER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At least not in mixed company Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Sickness WHITE BALLOON, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: The air is gravid with life Last Line: Grieving in each other's arms, %the ease with which we love Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHOLE LIVES MISSING, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: The strongest august sun Last Line: From sun to blood. To sun Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHY I FORGIVE MY YOUNGER SELF HER TRANSGRESSIONS, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Maybe it's the time I spend in high school classrooms Last Line: Saying here, now: this time, this place. Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness WIDOW BEDOTT TO ELDER SNIFFLER, by FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER Poem Text First Line: O reverend sir, I do declare Last Line: Priscilla pool bedott. Subject(s): Sickness; Women; Illness WILD FLOWERS GATHERED FOR A SICK FRIEND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from the dells were ye first were born Last Line: Is health to the bosom on which ye die. Subject(s): Flowers; Sickness; Illness WILLI, HOME; IN MEMORY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just before sleep, this: a bright Last Line: Brave. Tall. Home. Deep. Blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WILLI, HOME; IN MEMORY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just before sleep, this: a bright Last Line: Brave. Tall. Home. Deep. Blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WILLIAM HOUSE AND FAMILY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all kind friends, both far and near Last Line: God bless his soul forever more. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WILLIAM'S TALE: THE KING OF AIDS, by MAGGIE VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: When they start the morphine drip, jon drifts Last Line: Like a divine right Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WINTER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a gray aftertoon, blank as to freeze Subject(s): Winter; Sickness; Illness WINTER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Husk,' says the north wind. 'chuckhole. Hoarfrost.' yellow Last Line: The asian flu launches itsmidget submarines. %rosebud Subject(s): Sickness; Winter WINTER COMPLAINT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I have a cold Last Line: While I sit here %with the cold you gimmy Subject(s): Sickness WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness WITH A FLY, by KIM SUYONG Poem Source First Line: To one sick as I Last Line: That streaks across the sunny wilderness Subject(s): Sickness WORMWOOD, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: My father tells the story Last Line: That could have killed him Subject(s): Healing; Medicine; Sickness; Weeds WRITTEN AFTER RECOVERY FROM A DANGEROUS ILLNESS, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: Lo! O'er the earth the kindling spirits Last Line: Ethereal dew to glad the earth with showers. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN A FIT OF ILLNESS; R.S.S., by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these sad hours, a prey to ceaseless pain Last Line: Hope, joy, and peace, and delia in her train! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH, by ANNA MARIA SMALLPIECE Poem Text First Line: Ah! What avails, when sinking down to sleep Last Line: Were her full eye, and sparkling luster mine. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Where are the tearful smiles of youthful spring Last Line: Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Sickness; Spring; Illness WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: My bark floats on the sea of death Last Line: Farewell, my native world! Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN SICKNESS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear in youth the sad infirmities Last Line: And bid each awful muse drive the damned harpies hence. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy lowering of the sky Last Line: Twas still thy lot -- to bloom and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Sickness; Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (1), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (1), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky Last Line: On your bedspread at the edge of the ocean Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (2), by JEAN VALENTINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earthblue eye of the boatpond smiled at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (2), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earthblue eye of the boatpond smiled at the sky Last Line: On your bedspread at the edge of the ocean Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness YESTERDAY FROM MY FEVER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dreads, the fevered earth, plunged gratefully again Subject(s): Sickness; Togetherness YOUR BATH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I open the door and see you Last Line: In my faithless arms Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness YOUR BLACK SKIN MY WHITENESS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: As if each of us held purity in an open palm Last Line: Snow revealed along the edge %of our fingertips and vanishing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness YOUR FEET, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When we climbed the black stone Last Line: Settled in for the duration Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness YOUR LIFE, by RON SCHREIBER First Line: Right now it's all I care about Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness YOUR LIFE, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Right now it's all I care about Last Line: Health or at least its shimmering %surface. Right now Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness YOUR SIGHTLESS DAYS, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I remember clearly deciding not to see Last Line: The summer rog see how you saw us through Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness |
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