Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. THE GASTRIC MUSE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG First Line: There are, whose blood Last Line: So to be cleared, but foulness will remain. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Health | ||||||||
THERE are, whose blood Impetuous rages through the turgid veins, Who better bear the fiery fruits of Ind Than the moist melon, or pale cucumber. Of chilly nature others fly the board Supplied with slaughter, and the vernal powers For cooler, kinder, sustenance implore. Some even the generous nutriment detest Which, in the shell, the sleeping embryo rears. Some, more unhappy still, repent the gifts Of Pales; soft, delicious and benign: ... The fostering dew of tender sprouting life; The best refection of declining age. ... The stomach, urged beyond its active tone, Hardly to nutrimental chyle subdues The softest food: unfinished and depraved, The chyle, in all its future wand'rings, owns Its turbid fountain; not by purer streams So to be cleared, but foulness will remain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 12. EPILOGUE: NEVERTHELESS by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER PLEASURE MIXED WITH PAIN by THOMAS WYATT IN SICKNESS (1714) by JONATHAN SWIFT THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 1. AIR by JOHN ARMSTRONG THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT by JOHN ARMSTRONG THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. DIET by JOHN ARMSTRONG A DAY: AN EPISTLE TO JOHN WILKES, OF AYLESBURY, ESQ. by JOHN ARMSTRONG |
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