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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMPUTEES Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMPUTATION, by HELEN SORRELLS Poem Source First Line: More than he mourned for walking he grieved Last Line: On a stubborn, bloodless copy of his severed limb. %and not to think of it any more Subject(s): Amputees AMPUTEE SOLDIER, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Look at me move Subject(s): Amputees BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 3. AMPUTATION, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Happened because he wanted to move forward Last Line: Or else it was the bone that held us both %(and no one) Subject(s): Amputees; Automobile Accidents DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Last Line: He's jes' a great, big, brainy man -- that's where the trouble lays! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the legless boy show the great lady Last Line: But would the sound of your sticks on the floor %thundered in her skull for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Amputees; Children; Hospitals IN THE HOSPITAL, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The white gowned doctor holds the charming arm Last Line: And the patient rushes on in his two-armed dream. Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals LAMENT FOR A LEG, by JOHN ORMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A short service, to be sure Last Line: Come the quick trumpet of the judgment day? Subject(s): Amputees LEG, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Last Line: That if thou take me angrily in hand %and hurl me to the shark, I shall not die! Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER FIRST STEP, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supposing the trunk and limbs of man Last Line: That promised a golden lion! Subject(s): Amputees; Walking MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER PRECIOUS LEG, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined Last Line: As a member for all the county! Subject(s): Amputees MY LEGS SENOR, by WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: Attic room and window my ice skates on the wall Last Line: Silver paper in the wind frayed sounds of a distant city Subject(s): Amputees PHANTOM PAIN, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the leg is lost, the pain remains as an emblem; so Last Line: Of known bombers. Anxious, he drops a coffee cup, %white fragments exploding at his feet Subject(s): Amputees; Pain SHADOW LIMB, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It was a dr. Murphy %who cut my mother's leg off Last Line: And the shadows were mine Subject(s): Amputees; Mothers; Physicians SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries STUMP, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: When we came back from the hospital Last Line: Did you feel what that did to my desire Subject(s): Amputees THE LEG, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War; Cures THE LEGLESS FIGHTER PILOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He takes his calf in his hand, lifts the Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Amputees; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War THE MAN WITH THE WOODEN LEG, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man lived quite near us Last Line: And feel too sorry about it. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Amputees THE ONE-LEGGED MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propped up on a stick he viewed the august weald Last Line: And thought: 'thank god they had to amputate!' Subject(s): Amputees; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THOUGHTS BEFORE DAWN; FOR MARY BUI THI KHUY, 1944-1969, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bare oaks rock and snowcrust tumbles down Last Line: Brave woman, I hope you never saw the truck. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Medicine; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder now only when it will happen Last Line: It will look so beautiful. Subject(s): Amputees; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WOODEN LEG, by JAMES MCINTYRE Poem Source First Line: Misfortune sometimes is a prize Last Line: He has many a jolly rig, %and oft enjoys his wooden leg Subject(s): Amputees |
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