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Subject: YELLOW FEVER
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DEAD, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who did you say, my lady?' drawled the earl
Last Line: "the music makes me giddy. Take me home!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Yellow Fever; Dead, The


IN MEMORY OF A FRIEND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the feathery fronds of palm
Last Line: And consecrates a soul!
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Schalch, Ernest (d. 1874); Yellow Fever


REUNITED, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Purer than thy own white snow
Last Line: "o northland, in thy generous deed and grand."
Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; Yellow Fever; South (u.s.)


SCENE DURING THE PLAGUE AT GIBRALTAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, I only buried one
Last Line: And there I stood alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Yellow Fever


THE STRICKEN SOUTH TO THE NORTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ruthful time the south's memorial places
Last Line: Subdues the souls which hate could only wound!
Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; Yellow Fever; South (u.s.)


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