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Subject: SMALL POX
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALICE WADE VERSUS SMALL-POX, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy golden hair is left - its silky mesh
Last Line: The fortunes or the loves of alice wade!
Subject(s): Small Pox


ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be curst the time of bullen's fatal birth
Last Line: And bury them in pits as deep as graves.
Subject(s): Curses; Disease; Graves; Leprosy; Small Pox; Tombs; Tombstones; Lepers


DOCTOR ANTHONY'S POEM IN PRAISE OF THE POX, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great pox, thou noble sire of the gout
Last Line: Since thou rules that which governs all mankind
Subject(s): Small Pox


ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vase was made of clay
Last Line: Out of the sky into montana...
Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FOR CHILDREN KILLED IN A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC, by RYOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring arrives
Last Line: Will never return
Subject(s): Epidemics; Small Pox; Zen Buddhism


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


MANDAN CHIEF, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He mounts his favorite steed of war
Last Line: Then falls, to rise no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny
Subject(s): Native Americans; Small Pox


MEETING THE BRITISH, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We met the british in the dead of winter
Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Small Pox


ON HIS MAJESTY'S RECOVERY FROM THE SMALL-POX, 1633, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do confess, the over-forward tongue
Last Line: That plac'd him on his throne; this makes him reign.
Subject(s): Small Pox


ON THE DEATH OF THE EMINENTLY ENOBLED CHARLES CAPELL, ESQ., by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shower down your ponderus tears, whoe'er you be
Last Line: I'd ne'er believe so bright a star could fall.
Subject(s): Small Pox


SEDOKA: FOR THE CHILDREN WHO DIED IN A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC, by RYOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring comes
Subject(s): Epidemics; Small Pox


SIX TOWN ECLOGUES: SATURDAY; THE SMALL-POX, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wretched flavia, on her couch reclined
Last Line: My toilette, patches, all the world, adieu!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Small Pox


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 STELLA, AFTER THE SMALL-POX, by MARY JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: When skilful traders first set up
Last Line: And of your mind remain the sign!
Variant Title(s): After The Small Pox
Subject(s): Small Pox


TO THOMAS STANLEY, RECOVERED OF THE SMALL-POX, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature foreseeing that if thou wert gone
Last Line: Deface the woman in thee, not the man.
Subject(s): Healing; Small Pox; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Cures