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CHOLERA CURED BEFORE HAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pains ventral, subventral Last Line: And whitewash at once bowels, rooms, hands, and manners! Subject(s): Cholera | ||||||||
Or a premonition promulgated gratis for the use of the Useful Classes, specially those resident in St Giles's, Saffron Hill, Bethnal Green, & c. ; and likewise, inasmuch as the good man is merciful even to the beasts, for the benefit of the Bulls and Bears of the Stock Exchange. Pains ventral, subventral, In stomach or entrail, Think no longer mere prefaces For grins, groans, and wry faces; But off to the doctor, fast as ye can crawl! -- Yet far better 'twoud be not to have them at all. Now to 'scape inward aches, Eat no plums nor plum-cakes; Cry avaunt! new potatoe -- And don't drink, like old Cato. Ah! Beware of Dispipsy, And don't ye get tipsy! For tho' gin and whiskey May make you feel frisky, They're but crimps to Dispipsy; And nose to tail, with this gipsy Comes, black as a porpus, The diabolus ipse, Call'd Cholery Morpus; Who with horns, hoofs, and tail, croaks for carrion to feed him, Tho' being a Devil, no one never has seed him! Ah! then my dear honies, There's no cure for you For loves nor for monies: -- You'll find it too true. Och! the hallabaloo! Och! och! how you'll wail, When the offal-fed vagrant Shall turn you as blue As the gas-light unfragrant, That gushes in jets from beneath his own tail; -- 'Till swift as the mail, He at last brings the cramps on, That will twist you like Samson. So without further blethring, Dear mudlarks! my brethren! Of all scents and degrees, (Yourselves and your shes) Forswear all cabal, lads, Wakes, unions, and rows, Hot dreams, and cold salads And don't pig in sties that would suffocate sows! Quit Cobbett's, O'Connell's, and Beelzebub's banners, And whitewash at once bowels, rooms, hands, and manners! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 3. 1865 by JANET HAMILTON CHOLERA CAMP by RUDYARD KIPLING MOWERS; AN ANTICIPATION OF THE CHOLERA, 1848 by CHARLES MACKAY MRS. REUBEN CHANDLER TO HUSBAND, CHOLERA EPIDEMIC, 1849 by ANNE STEVENSON A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN ODE TO THE RAIN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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