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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MOTHER, by PAT SAMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: She listens to your joys and cares
Last Line: They call -- and wish her here again.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort


ABORTION, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the women cry
Last Line: They show each other pictures
Subject(s): Caregivers


AD ASTRA: 9, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: That answering smile that seems to set at rest
Last Line: When the unruly winds are hush'd in sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Caregivers; Peace


BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood
Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness


BARKING DOG, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a woman %in a hospital
Last Line: The story %of the barking dog
Subject(s): Caregivers


BECOMING THE PATIENT, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years the same dream
Last Line: I point out the thin scar
Subject(s): Caregivers


BLOOD CLOT, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I got sleepy, my right side
Last Line: To that damn, calm kitchen
Subject(s): Caregivers


BODY FLUTE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go on loving the flesh
Last Line: The silver stops of your eyelids
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


CALMING KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be quiet awful woman
Last Line: I know I am your sister
Subject(s): Caregivers; Sisters


CALMING KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be quiet awful woman
Last Line: Awful woman, %I know I am your sister
Subject(s): Caregivers; Sisters


CARE, by JANET NORRIS BANGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Care now lies
Last Line: Care, in the corner.
Subject(s): Caregivers


CHARITY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my son %was born
Last Line: A light, %a glass %of water
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Caregivers; Charity


CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The keepers / walk among galapagos turtles
Last Line: In the san diego dusk.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Galapagos Islands; Turtles; Zoos; Tortoises


CLOUDBURST, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the green witches
Last Line: Shaking her bright bandage scissors
Subject(s): Caregivers


COMFORT ONE ANOTHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Comfort one another; / for the way is growing dreary
Last Line: But the presence of the lord, and for all his people room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Love; Sympathy; Empathy


CONSUMMATION, by MORRIS HURLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Abundant life is nature's law
Last Line: To take you through the gates of heaven.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Parents; Teaching & Teachers; Parenthood; Educators; Professors


DESK, by GREG KUZMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father is chopping up the desk he built me when I was a kid to get
Last Line: Is getting him pissed off
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Fathers; Parents


DETAILS OF FLESH, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That morning I surprised a nurse
Last Line: And restless patients called them
Subject(s): Caregivers


DOCTOR, 8 P.M., by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dinner you speak of the tumor
Last Line: We cannot loose, or satiate
Subject(s): Caregivers


DUET, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We sing her down on the table, slowly
Last Line: That would crack the dome of her fear
Subject(s): Caregivers


FIRST BREAST, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man sits on a chair's edge
Last Line: But warm. All these details
Subject(s): Caregivers


FLASHBACK, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fuck yourself with a bottle
Last Line: Asking for it. Begging
Subject(s): Caregivers


FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I PASSED ON TO MY CHILDREN, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comes late for dinner
Last Line: Stares intently through
Subject(s): Caregivers


FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I SEE IN THE MIRROR, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman who has come to love silence
Last Line: Eyebrows. Nose off center
Subject(s): Caregivers


FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I SWORE MY MOTHER WORE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small clouds like lace
Last Line: I saw her face
Subject(s): Caregivers


FOUR MASKS: THE MASK I WORE FOR MY MOTHER, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright in the way of silk roses
Last Line: Just to hear her talking
Subject(s): Caregivers


FUTURES, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He wouldn't take off his coat or hat, his aunt charity says, but he
Last Line: Nothing %to change or predict
Subject(s): Caregivers; Future; Love; Maturity


GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street
Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism


GET WELL CARD DROPPED IN A PARKING GARAGE, by KIMBERLY HORNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know, I don't believe in prepared
Last Line: Beyond even its own intentions
Subject(s): Caregivers; Sickness


GOOD NURSE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our kiss is in gratitude
Last Line: Freezes the mind
Subject(s): Caregivers


HEMORRHAGE, 3 A.M., by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A boy walks into the sea
Last Line: A crease in the surface of the sea
Subject(s): Caregivers


HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping
Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary


HOW I IMAGINE IT, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ahead of me on the road, my daughter
Last Line: The stoplight swings in the wind. It's almost autumn
Variant Title(s): This Is How I Imagine I
Subject(s): Caregivers


I HEAR THE CRIES OF WOMEN, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women in the clinic waiting room
Last Line: Bring another child %into this world
Subject(s): Caregivers


IL LATTE, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye fair, for whom the hands of hymen weave
Last Line: Unblam'd inebriate at that healthful spring.
Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Nature; Parents; Infants; Parenthood


IT'S ONLY FAIR, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother has had a heap of praise
Last Line: I sing a little song to dad!
Subject(s): Caregivers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets


LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane
Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there.
Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty


MOTHER, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a hand so firm and tender
Last Line: Is burnt in mother's heart.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life; Home; Love; Mothers; Relatives


MOTHER LOVE, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a mother working
Last Line: Through endless, happy days!
Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers


MY DEAR MRS GALE-FROM MY LEAVING THE CRADLE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The most 'ladle-like' personage under the sun!
Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life


NIGHT NURSE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angel, %hold their hands while I hurry
Last Line: All these lives flying from us
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


NURSE'S TASK, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I pluck the suture
Last Line: The one that escapes
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


NURSE, 7 A. M., by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She squints, eight hours
Last Line: Like a newborn, round and lemon
Subject(s): Caregivers


OLD LADY PATIENT, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hate %doctors they
Last Line: Your hand cook like %water, your name?
Subject(s): Caregivers


OLD MEN NAME THE PLANETS, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old men name the planets and their moons
Last Line: Will be white and distant as the moon
Subject(s): Caregivers


ON NOT LOVING YOUR CHLDREN, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stop loving them at two
Last Line: The sea-swell, the undertow
Subject(s): Caregivers


ON THE IRT, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lily in a burdock nosegay
Last Line: Swarms fireflies in a jar sealed by aphasia.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Subways; Childhood


ON THE WARDS, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 7 a.M. And all I can think of is sex
Last Line: And guarded by my watch outside their door
Subject(s): Caregivers


PATIENT IN SURGERY, 7 A. M., by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dazed by the needle's punch
Last Line: Went in before she was ready
Subject(s): Caregivers


QUEEN'S BREAST, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was a queen of spain. Her name beside
Last Line: With which spain to a whole world gave her breast!
Subject(s): Caregivers; Courts And Courtiers; Mothers


RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How good our every festival appears
Last Line: And to receive — in knowing how to give.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants


RITUAL BATH, 1955, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steam-laden air and the summer night's heat
Last Line: Rushing to her damask towel
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Caregivers


ROADSIDE POEMS: THE CHILD-MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavily slumbered noonday bright
Last Line: "I did not let him go!"
Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood


SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise
Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


SLOW CODE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small room. Iron bed. Yellow sheets
Last Line: We'll tell her son at least we tried
Subject(s): Caregivers


SMOKE WE MAKE PICTURES OF, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wrapping presents, I look up
Last Line: At christmas. A dog. A little girl
Subject(s): Caregivers


SONG (5), by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how the twilight slumber falls
Last Line: That I may look on her and live.
Variant Title(s): Song. Set By Mr. Coleman
Subject(s): Caregivers; Love


STARING INTO THE POINT WHERE THE TRACKS MERGE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am staring down the tracks
Last Line: Like women's hair into evening
Subject(s): Caregivers


SUFFERING, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jean tells me about her heart scan
Last Line: Of the open mouth; %then, %silence
Subject(s): Caregivers


TAKING CARE, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I took care of you, I grew as swans
Last Line: Going home, it seemed a vast interruption
Subject(s): Caregivers; Love; Sickness


THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The careless lad went through the wood
Last Line: Who never looked behind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness


THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children bear our froward mood
Last Line: See, lord,—they bear with us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood


THE GOD ON THE HEARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A god, a god sits on my hearth
Last Line: Nor yet forgets his starry birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Home


THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night
Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary


THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would choose to be a door-keeper
Last Line: In the house of the lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Houses; Humility


THE MOTHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night he lay within my arm
Last Line: To keep him safe from fear and harm!
Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Mothers; Infants


THE NURSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Such innocent companionship
Last Line: Within is only innocence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Innocence; Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Praise; Childhood; Work; Workers


THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little ones cling to the mother
Last Line: That may love thee better than all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants


THE WEEPING BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: She kneels by the cradle
Last Line: That still thou wilt cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF BANTRY, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That judicious young person of bantry
Subject(s): Caregivers; Kindness


THIS HAPPENED, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The intern and I begin our rounds
Last Line: And be the same
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


TO --, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was sick, how patiently thou sat'st beside my bed
Last Line: Forgive, forgive, my -------, the selfishness of man!
Subject(s): Caregivers; Debt; Sickness; Illness


TO MADAME GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the face, the fairest face, till care
Last Line: Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Caregivers; Faces; Love


TO THE HUSBAND WHO STANDS AT THE SINK, INTENT ON SHAVING, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a woman in your shower
Last Line: Of anger and sorrow not yet of expectation
Subject(s): Caregivers


TO THE HUSBANDMAN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sown are the golden seeds in the smooth furrow
Last Line: New life the furrows are giving.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO THE MOTHER OF THE BURNED CHILDREN, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you ask, when your voice
Last Line: Tell them wait. %wait here. Wait
Subject(s): Caregivers


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BABY SONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Croonie croonie, baby baby, up and down
Last Line: Baby baby, what art thou?
Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood


TUMOR BOARD, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman has lost her vulva
Last Line: Banging. 'here and here and here.'
Subject(s): Caregivers


VISITING MY FATHER IN THE HOSPITAL, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the tongue on the palate
Last Line: When you leave, take the stairs
Subject(s): Caregivers


VOCATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For this, for this was I foreseen
Last Line: Made me the children's heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Heaven; Childhood; Paradise


WHAT MAN MIGHT KILL, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He lights a cigarette
Last Line: Having seen the moon
Subject(s): Caregivers


WHAT THE NURSE LIKES, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like looking into patients' ears
Last Line: When I turn their way
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


WOMAN WHO LOST HER BREAST TO CANCER AND SAID SHE DIDN'T MIND, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because she could still reach her arm
Last Line: That might suckle the world, and say %mine mine
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Caregivers


WORLD OUTSIDE, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue '86 chevy-side truck is his job corps graduation
Last Line: Patient and quiet and loving and... %well, you get the picture
Subject(s): Caregivers; Independence; Labor And Laborers; Maturity