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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEPRESSION, MENTAL Matches Found: 215 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1, by ESTHER TELLERMAN Poem Source First Line: Fatigue. %I mean a Last Line: Does not break away %from the angle. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Weariness 2, by ESTHER TELLERMAN Poem Source First Line: In medias we saw %each date Last Line: Probably %in a paltry place Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Weariness A MUSICIAN'S WIFE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the visits to the shock ward Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress ABOUT HOW MANY, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: About one in six Last Line: Build warm elaxed %relationships with them Subject(s): Depression, Mental AFTER MY BREAKDOWN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: With gillette stainless steel blades Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychoanalysis AFTER THE SILENCE, by DERMOT HEALY Poem Source First Line: The moon stood Last Line: It's done. That's that Subject(s): Depression, Mental AND WHY NOT?, by JOSIE KILDEA Poem Source First Line: I want to change my name Last Line: The changing of my name is very near Subject(s): Depression, Mental APPREHENSIONS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress APPREHENSIONS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental APPROACH, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apparelled in a mask of joy till now Last Line: The steady silence draws thy spirit near. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress ARRIVING EARLY, by JOE ASSER Poem Source First Line: You are let in by Last Line: Trip to the off-licence Subject(s): Depression, Mental AT THE BRAQUE EXHIBITION, by JOSIE KILDEA Poem Source First Line: I heard colour sing today and Last Line: When I got drunk on braque Subject(s): Depression, Mental AUTUMN WAS A MOMENT AWAY, by STEPHEN GARDNER Poem Source Last Line: The open highway Subject(s): Depression, Mental BAGPIPES, by MATTHEW SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: The bagpipes on the wall began to skirl Last Line: The bagpipes drowned out the breaking glass Subject(s): Depression, Mental BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, by BARBARA SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: I'm driven out of my house Last Line: I wish I could see Subject(s): Depression, Mental BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure a fence Subject(s): Arabs; Depression, Mental; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine BEFORE IT GETS UGLY, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm entering lower end Last Line: Are numerous enough %to be embarrassing Subject(s): Depression, Mental BLACK APRIL, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could god have meant the spring to hurt us so Last Line: Just one black night of agony? Subject(s): April; Depression, Mental; Grief; Spring; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness BLACKER THAN BEFORE, by CLAIRE BAYARD-WHITE Poem Source First Line: Black windows, black doors, black oil out of black floors Last Line: Keeping me away from me and myself Subject(s): Depression, Mental BLUE RAVINE, by DIETER WESLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Cedars carry Last Line: Memory's fragrant scent %of firewod, of sorrow Subject(s): Depression, Mental BOOT THEORY, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: A man walks into a bar and says Last Line: Your heart so big you can feel it kicking your lungs with every step Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life; Shoes BROKEN EGGS, by PETER PEGNALL Poem Source First Line: Blake was mad. Clare was mad. Plath was mad. Last Line: Put you together, put you together %again Subject(s): Depression, Mental BUTTERFLY, by DES MCHALE Poem Source First Line: He was a butterfly Last Line: And I know how it burns Subject(s): Depression, Mental BY TORCHLIGHT, by CATH KILCOYNE Poem Source First Line: The touch of a torch slithering along my thigh must have Last Line: Withdrew and shut the door with a click Subject(s): Depression, Mental CALLING BACK THE BODY (WITH EXTRACTS FROM A RELAXATION TAPE), by BRUCE BARNES Poem Source First Line: The sweat-shop starts early, sewing machines Last Line: Siren song persuaded me out of sleep Subject(s): Depression, Mental CANTO 115, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scientists are in terror Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress CANTO 115, by EZRA POUND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scientists are in terror Last Line: And the living were made of cardboard Subject(s): Depression, Mental CAVE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think most people are relieved the first time they actually know Last Line: And then the warmth, clinging and brightening, the hide, the caul, the first mind Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Depression, Mental CELEBRATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Where did it come from %the strength to shed that tattered cocoon depression Last Line: To spiral down the molten core of illness %and pop the cork of death Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychoanalysis; Relationships CHEMICAL ESCAPE, by CECILIA GRAINGER Poem Source First Line: Shi looked it thi boatul Last Line: Back in thi boatul Subject(s): Depression, Mental CLARE LEAVES HIGH BEACH, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: Others also were muttering and went Last Line: And must crawl after now on hands and knees Subject(s): Depression, Mental CLARE'S JIG #43, by IAN DUHIG Poem Source First Line: I'd collected a good jig called 'the self' Last Line: For like a tree, I'm dying from the top Subject(s): Depression, Mental COMMON CAUSE, by SUSAN GAUKROGER Poem Source First Line: Dear boy, uncommon brother, fourth apostle Last Line: Good lord deliver us %noli me tangere Subject(s): Depression, Mental COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This one was put in a jacket Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one was put in a jacket Last Line: And cried and cried no no no no %all day long Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest CRADLE, by VALERIA MELCHIORETTO Poem Source First Line: I still remember my shivering birthday Last Line: I faced for the first time my own melted memories Subject(s): Depression, Mental CROCUSES, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source First Line: And is her father with her on the lawn Last Line: And will she forgive him %never Subject(s): Depression, Mental DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DAY RELEASE, by ANGELA MORTON Poem Source First Line: And the journey hard to believe Last Line: We had lain warm Subject(s): Depression, Mental DAY ROOM (FROM KENDAL WARD, RAINHILL MENTAL HOSPITAL), by KIT WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Many are nonplussed Last Line: When nothing's left this is what's left %to save Subject(s): Depression, Mental DAYCENTRE ROMANCE, by RAY WILLMOTT Poem Source First Line: Holding hands in the bunny park Last Line: As futureless as dust Subject(s): Depression, Mental DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN Poet's Biography First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental; Death - Babies; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me Last Line: And out of his eyes two great tear rolleds, like stones, and he died Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a man of gingerbread that you should mould me to your liking? Last Line: The curtain falls. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Graves; Love; Physicians; Sleep; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Doctors DECK OF CARDS, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: I can't hear you, my husband Last Line: Maybe in the middle of a clean sweep Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Gambling DEPRESSED BY A BOOK OF BAD POETRY, I WALK TOWARD AN UNUSED PASTURE AND INVITE THE INSECTS TO JOIN ME, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Relieved, I let the book fall behind a stone Last Line: In the maple trees Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Depression, Mental DEPRESSION, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: I can tell you Last Line: Off, clicking %their teeth Subject(s): Depression, Mental DEPRESSION, by EVALYN SCHAFFLE Poem Text First Line: We drift...Like ships becalmed in fog at sea Last Line: When foghorns sound their wailing through the dark! Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress DEPRIVATION, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dull knife cuts our hand Last Line: For a long time Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Solitude; Thirst; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Loneliness DILEMMA, by W. +(3) L. Poem Source First Line: He played my silken button Last Line: Whereas gentlemen don't fuck Subject(s): Depression, Mental DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Variant Title(s): Dolour Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness; Clerks DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Last Line: Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows, %glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey stan Variant Title(s): Dolou Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest DON'T FLINCH, by JOE ASSER Poem Source First Line: There's this depressed commuter Last Line: Close your eyes Subject(s): Depression, Mental DOOR, by PATRICK MCMANUS Poem Source First Line: He was sad Last Line: And walked out through the door Subject(s): Depression, Mental DR. EGG: 5 SECURITY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: In the waiting room Last Line: He pulls out %nothing Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fear; Guns; Psychology EARLY EVENING, by LARRY BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Early evening here at last at least Last Line: Five minutes (I can't be still for more %than five minutes) Subject(s): Depression, Mental EISRIESENWELT, by PASCALE PETIT Poem Source First Line: In the world of the ice giants Last Line: The inn was warm. My life was warm Subject(s): Depression, Mental ENVOI: MANIC DEPRESSION IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: See bill in big sur, about to quaff Last Line: Into a nest of rattlesnakes.' Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity EUPHEMISMS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Crackers, potty, loony, bonkers Last Line: Paisleyites, twerps, plaid cymru Subject(s): Depression, Mental FABLE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However the man had got himself there Last Line: Besides, you'd have fallen anyway.' Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Suicide FABULOUS GLASS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my deep mirror's blindest heart Last Line: And thus closed down my self-regarding gaze Subject(s): Depression, Mental FIRST DAY'S NIGHT HAD COME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Could it be madness - this Variant Title(s): Poem: 410; Poem: 42 Subject(s): Depression, Mental FROM ONE HELPSTONE MAN TO ANOTHER, by ROBERT COLE Poem Source First Line: Farmboy's been out a long time, swanning around Last Line: Teaching him his letters, was right daft Subject(s): Depression, Mental FROZEN FALLS, by PASCALE PETIT Poem Source First Line: We are the frozen people Last Line: Bridalveil %virgin's tears Subject(s): Depression, Mental GAME, by IMMA MADDOX Poem Source Last Line: Wiser %not to %crow Subject(s): Depression, Mental GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS (THEREFROM), by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus was I always sinking, whatever I did think or do. Last Line: But I was gone and lost Subject(s): Depression, Mental GRAND OLD DUKE OF YORK, by KEITH THORNLEY Poem Source Last Line: Picnic area -- halfway down Subject(s): Depression, Mental GWUTT, by HEBRON WACHENJE Poem Source First Line: Green dot Last Line: There. Mi %unicorn Subject(s): Depression, Mental HA HA, by KAREN DAVIES Poem Source Last Line: Help help %me me Subject(s): Depression, Mental HAD WE OUR SENSES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So utterly unmoved Variant Title(s): Poem: 1284; Poem: 131 Subject(s): Depression, Mental HALF-AN-HOUR, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And grass grows round the door. The ground Last Line: Consent, even to anxious transience Subject(s): Depression, Mental HALLS OF BEDLAM, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forewarned of madness Last Line: As if already mad Subject(s): Depression, Mental HAND OF GOD, by HARRY SMART Poem Source First Line: The hand of god comes to me with a bottle Last Line: That lift me, oh so gently, out of hell Subject(s): Depression, Mental HAPPIEST WOMAN ALIVE, by ANGELA S. HART Poem Source First Line: Joy was the happiest woman alive. Two hundred 10p phone Last Line: Her off along the corridor to the ect dept Subject(s): Depression, Mental HEARD IN A VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, too, / you'd be institutionalized Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress HEARD IN A VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, too Last Line: And that sweet man, john clare Subject(s): Depression, Mental HER LARGE SMILE, by SCOTT VERNER Poem Source First Line: Coming so soon after the stomach pump Last Line: I'm scared what might happen after sundown Subject(s): Depression, Mental HISTORY 10021, by ANDREW STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: Forty-two year old %male Last Line: Flights of ideas %and a smoker Subject(s): Depression, Mental HOLE, by ANGELA S. HART Poem Source First Line: Uncertain, unsteadily Last Line: Fell down the hole Subject(s): Depression, Mental HOSPITAL FOR DEFECTIVES, by THOMAS BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: By your unnumbered charities Last Line: Through such men in a turnip field %what is it that you say? Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Hospitals HOW CAN I FIND A SPARK OF REALITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Measure the rhythmicality of breathing in the darkness Subject(s): Depression, Mental HYSTERIA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her Last Line: Attention with careful subtlety to this end. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress I AM VERTICAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I would rather be horizontal Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress I AM VERTICAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I would rather be horizontal Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental I DON'T REMEMBER, by KEVIN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I don't remember my thirty-seventh birthday Last Line: What a time I had -- you fair got carried away Subject(s): Depression, Mental I FELT A FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And finished knowing—then Subject(s): Depression, Mental I KNOW I'M A SICK MAN, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: I know I'm a sick man. I know Last Line: Only there's no need for the fire Subject(s): Depression, Mental I USED TO BE A GIRL, by IFIGENIJA SIMONOVIC Poem Source First Line: One day my stepfather decided to strangle me Last Line: Hard to hold my hands out ready to catch her Subject(s): Depression, Mental ILSAN POEMS: 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I'm alone %in white light Last Line: And I begin to walk % to meet it Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude IN A FORMER LIFE, by MARLENE PEARSON Poem Source First Line: As a salamander I think about sex Last Line: Alive, boys too young for sex Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life; Salamanders IN BACK OF THE REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Railroad yard in san jose Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress IN BACK OF THE REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Railroad yard in san jose Last Line: This is the flower of the world Subject(s): Depression, Mental IN THE OCEAN, by FATIMA DURMUSH Poem Source First Line: Mentally, I have begun to pack Last Line: Who will say good day good gosh Subject(s): Depression, Mental INTERFERENCE, by FRANK NEWSUM Poem Source First Line: He walks out from another row Last Line: Would keep their voices down Subject(s): Depression, Mental INTRUDERS, by DENISE JONES Poem Source First Line: Inside my head Last Line: In order to feel whole for ever Subject(s): Depression, Mental JUBILATE AGNO, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I prophesy that we shall have our horns again Last Line: For I pray god be gracious to the bees and the beeves this day Variant Title(s): Jubliate Agno, Sels Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Cats; Depression, Mental; Religion KINDRED, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What inequality Last Line: A garland for my spirit weaves. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress KITCHEN CHAIR, by JOHN RETY Poem Source First Line: Think of the kitchen chair Last Line: Clear off and get out of the kitchen Subject(s): Depression, Mental LADYBUG, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: Someday when you are down and feeling dour Last Line: All the while, down below, we trained and trained %the little horse Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insects LEAF, by HARRY FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: Behind me a pattering along the path Last Line: One leaf had followed me along the path Subject(s): Depression, Mental LEAVING HOSPITAL, by PETER STREET Poem Source First Line: Five months inside Last Line: The streets, the cafes, the toilets Subject(s): Depression, Mental LESSON, by KEVIN MCCANN Poem Source First Line: Teacher paces out Last Line: But less this time Subject(s): Depression, Mental LET DOWN, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kneaded like stiff dough, pushed up Last Line: Of slabbed darkness let down, let down Subject(s): Depression, Mental LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin Last Line: The grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LOSS OF RECENT MEMORY, by RUTH SILCOCK Poem Source First Line: A gentleman Last Line: To guide us down the drive. We say goodnight Subject(s): Depression, Mental MADMAN, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: Every child has a madman on their street Last Line: The only trouble about our madman is that he's our father Subject(s): Depression, Mental MADMAN COMPARES GOD TO A GREAT LIGHT, by NICHOLAS LAFITTE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I can lie exposed to this Last Line: Towards a state of light I do not understand Subject(s): Depression, Mental MADMAN I HAVE BEEN CALLED, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madman I have been called; fool they call thee Last Line: I wonder which they envy thee or me Subject(s): Bible; Depression, Mental; Mythology; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress MAH TOWING, by GARY ERNEST KAY Poem Source First Line: She go to mato every day Last Line: Of that you can be sure Subject(s): Depression, Mental MAN OF DISTINCTION (ST. MARY ABBOTS HOSPITAL, KENSINGTON, by KIT WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Where speechfolk with most disparate cries Last Line: And the field of his distinction %psychiatry Subject(s): Depression, Mental MEANING TO LIFE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: I feel lonely and deserted by god and man Last Line: And I discover that there is still some meaning to life Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life MIND DAY CENTRE, by PAUL KEAN Poem Source First Line: I feel myself learning from the old lags Last Line: To take away mine Subject(s): Depression, Mental MISS MANIAC, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around my brain there is a chain, and o'er my fevered soul Last Line: Ah-ha!-it was a deadly touch-but it never cooled again! Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fear; Grief MIXED GRILL (OR AGITATED DEPRESSION), by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Sludge world. Zen hell. March through mud Last Line: Furiously in the growing mass on the ground Subject(s): Depression, Mental MR TOSUN, by FATIMA DURMUSH Poem Source First Line: Mr tosum takes out his Last Line: For he has a lot to do Subject(s): Depression, Mental MUSICIAN'S WIFE, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the visits to the shock ward Last Line: And it is dawn before I sleep again Subject(s): Depression, Mental MY DADDY'S SHAKIN SOMETHING AWFUL, by RUBA NADDA Poem Source First Line: And my daddy's hands are shakin something awful as he Last Line: Crazy daddy, he's shaking something awful, I don't speak %his language. And he don't speak mine Subject(s): Children; Depression, Mental; Fathers MY SON, by MARY GUCKIAN Poem Source First Line: They tell me he Last Line: Rest of his life Subject(s): Depression, Mental NEW ARRIVAL, by AIDAN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: That final day was warm and bright Last Line: Soon, he thought. Soon I'll walk Subject(s): Depression, Mental NEW TOWN, by DERMOT HEALY Poem Source First Line: The first days I went to town Last Line: And you haunt me yet Subject(s): Depression, Mental NIGHT AT THE BLIND BEGGAR, by KENNETH JOHN SMITH Poem Source First Line: Easy-peasy they said, a simple job Last Line: Slung around his shoulder. Dog ate my dinner Subject(s): Depression, Mental NIGHT GARDEN OF THE ASYLUM, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: An owl's call scrapes the stillness Last Line: We are in witchcraft, bedevilled Subject(s): Depression, Mental NIGHTNURSE, by MARTIN SONENBERG Poem Source First Line: She is stately and walks slowly Last Line: Will soon be round again Subject(s): Depression, Mental NO DELICACIES, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Nothing pleases me anymore Last Line: (should really. The others should.) %my part, let it be lost Subject(s): Depression, Mental NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun ray Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun ray Last Line: There is no safe place Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion NOT A BUTTERCUP, by CAROL BATTON Poem Source First Line: There is celandine Last Line: But who am I going to tell Subject(s): Depression, Mental ODE TO A THERAPIST, by CHRIS NERNEY Poem Source First Line: He's a psychotherapist Last Line: Should have been a ventriloquist Subject(s): Depression, Mental ON A PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM BLAKE BY FRANCIS BACON, by PAUL CLARK Poem Source First Line: His neck is an upturned anvil Last Line: Now its eyes are closed behind cuttlefish lids Subject(s): Depression, Mental ON THE RUN FROM TOOTING BEC HOSPITAL, by MARTIN BROWNLEE Poem Source First Line: Passed another litter bin Last Line: I sleep in the park, just another dosser Subject(s): Depression, Mental OOOLD MAN TOLSTOY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I need a bitter taste a tonic Last Line: For spring %lightness Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Loss; Spring ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains of rock Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains of rock Last Line: Cold curtains of rock concealing the bottomless sky Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry And Poets OUT OF ORDER, by SOLOMON BLUE WATERS Poem Source First Line: Eyes not seeing too well Last Line: What my soul, unanswered, begs for Subject(s): Depression, Mental OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by NIKKI GREEN Poem Source First Line: But mother I was only two Last Line: To the land where the madness grew Subject(s): Depression, Mental PAQUIDA, by LOUISE C. CALLAGHAN Poem Source First Line: The young black girl's face Last Line: How could I survive Subject(s): Depression, Mental PHRENOLOGY: A VILLANELLE, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Concavities and lumps above my ear Last Line: Which even now are swathed in silver hair Subject(s): Depression, Mental POEM FOR A PSYCHIATRIC CONFERENCE, by SEAN O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: When marsyas the satyr played and lost Last Line: To explain and restore and say put that behind you Subject(s): Depression, Mental POEM INTENDED TO INCITE THE UTMOST DEPRESSION, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Cervantes, dosteoevsky, poe Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fate; Poetry And Poets PRISONER, by PATRICIA PRATT Poem Source First Line: Take a deep breath Last Line: You've done it before Subject(s): Depression, Mental RAMPTON SPECIAL HOSPITAL: ARRIVAL, by DANIELLE HOPE Poem Source First Line: I remember the crossing between fields of oil seed rape Last Line: And then, I remember, we were inside Subject(s): Depression, Mental RAVE ON, by JO HARRIS Poem Source First Line: It was a mad scene man Last Line: Workers stealing kids Subject(s): Depression, Mental REACTIVE DEPRESSION, by MARY O'DWYER Poem Source First Line: The world is crying Last Line: Under the weather Subject(s): Depression, Mental RIDDYM RAVINGS: THE MAD WOMAN'S POEM, by JEAN BINTA BREEZE Poem Source First Line: De fus time dem kar me go a bellevue Last Line: Murther %pull up missa operator! Subject(s): Depression, Mental RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way they ring Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way they ring Last Line: They tell you to go. And you do Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; God; Insanity; Religion SAD STORY, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: The waves are not part of us. What sand they touch and overskim Last Line: This sand is a handful of forgetting, an eyeful of pain. Blooddrop of pain Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Sea SAVIOR, by ROBERT DONALD SPECTOR Poem Source First Line: In the desert of my deep depression Last Line: Delivered up my soul, my love, %to you for all eternity Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion SEA, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our human dream (or terror) wove Last Line: Who is the sea, and who am I? The day %that follows my last agony shall say Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Sea; Violence SEA, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: These waters would kill me Last Line: Beating the sky away Subject(s): Depression, Mental SEASON IN HELL: RAVINGS II, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Depression, Mental SECOND ADMISSION, by JOHN TENNANT Poem Source First Line: The fly is evil I must kill it Last Line: Must convince her that I'm sane Subject(s): Depression, Mental SHADOW-BOARD, by JILL BAMBER Poem Source First Line: When the young man with the rapt Last Line: And locked the cupboard Subject(s): Depression, Mental SHE THOUGHT, by PATRICK MCMANUS Poem Source Last Line: Tarred and feathered %them %before firing Subject(s): Depression, Mental SICK IMAGE OF MY FATHER FADES, by JOHN HORDER Poem Source Last Line: The sheer drop from the cliff's edge, just for a moment Subject(s): Depression, Mental SICK MINDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I am sick and dark depression Last Line: Is magic that restores my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress SIGN WRITING, by JOHN WELCH Poem Source First Line: Predawn I am voluble Last Line: These stanzas, stances Subject(s): Depression, Mental SKY OVER BEDLAM, by WENDY FRENCH Poem Source First Line: It dawned on me as we stared Last Line: That we might all be drowning in the morning Subject(s): Depression, Mental SMILE, by V. G. LEE Poem Source First Line: When at long last the daystar burns blue Last Line: On a morning like this, when at long last Subject(s): Depression, Mental SOME KIND OF BLUES, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning the milk went sour, floated like clouds Last Line: Like the fire of creation - when a lady walked by, grinning Subject(s): Depression, Mental SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put those things there. - see them burn Last Line: In my red coat. I am the king of the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Clergy; Depression, Mental SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tar of my heart, the melancholia Last Line: What's been said. %you may read it Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Dreams; Faith; Freedom; Mexican American Families; Mothers; Silence; Women - Secluding; Women's Rights SOUND OF MY HEAD, by SCOTT VERNER Poem Source First Line: On my birthday I come in from hiding Last Line: Shake my head, scared to hear a rattle Subject(s): Depression, Mental SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 29, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You seek the other side of the street Last Line: And hungry of death Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Melancholy SPEAK TO ME, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source First Line: I'm going to stop Last Line: Whispering speak to me please Subject(s): Depression, Mental STANZA WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR DULWICH, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark soars up in the air Last Line: Were the truer type of my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Soul; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town does not exist Last Line: From my life with no flag, %no belly, %no cry Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) SUNDAY MORNING IN PUTNEY, by CHRIS RAWLINSON Poem Source First Line: Five mushrooms clustered in a tufted dell Last Line: An ochre mist subsides; laetitia is not well Subject(s): Depression, Mental SURVIVOR, by MALA MASON Poem Source First Line: I went back to lay the dark ghosts of my childhood Last Line: Instead of dark ghosts, I remember the beech tree Subject(s): Depression, Mental SYLVIA'S LITANY, by WILLIAM JOLLIFF Poem Source First Line: After breakfast sylvia clicked Last Line: He kept washing his hands Subject(s): Clergy; Depression, Mental THE CIRCLE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grief comes back after an interval Last Line: And feel the weight of my old sorrow's chain. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Grief; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THE RAIN IS OVER AND DONE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And pray that life were done Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Depression, Mental THE SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put those things there. - see them burn Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Clergy; Depression, Mental; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress THE STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town does not exist Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology THE VISITATION OF PEACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THERAPY ROOM, by BILL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Joe's making a stool Last Line: Then we had coffee Subject(s): Depression, Mental THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AT A JUNCTION, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But remained on the rails of the junction Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Old Age THEREFORE I WILL NOT FEAR, by NICHOLAS LAFITTE Poem Source First Line: On rubery hill the birds do sing Last Line: Death on rubery hill Subject(s): Depression, Mental TIMEPIECE (MICHIGAN), OR A MOEBIUS TRIP, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: On monday, she arrived at the aiport, expecting to be met there by a Last Line: Clock had stopped at noon Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Time TO GEORGE BORROW (LAVENGRO), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: No 'book,' but your own heart, was written, borrow Last Line: Knight of the ancient ruth and fearless fibre! Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); Depression, Mental; Hope; Writing & Writers; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Optimism TO GOD, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why have you made life so intolerable Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress TO GOD, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why have you made life so intolerable Last Line: Not often such evil guessed as between man and man Subject(s): Depression, Mental TO MY DEPRESSED NEPHEW, by JOANNE CHILDERS Poem Source First Line: Even if I should repeat the words Last Line: Frightens you from the ripened feast Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Language TO RECOVERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Recovery, where art thou? Last Line: Watches the dawn of day. Subject(s): Blessings; Depression, Mental; Healing; Hope; Prayer; Waiting; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Cures; Optimism TO SLEEP PERCHANCE TO DREAM, by NICOLA EAST Poem Source First Line: The robots made and drank Last Line: A pain in a nervous wreck Subject(s): Depression, Mental TO ZIMMER, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lines of life are various; they diverge and cease Last Line: With harmonies, eternal recompense and peace Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Depression, Mental TODAY, by ANGELA S. HART Poem Source First Line: Today I put coffee powder in the washing-machine Last Line: And spoke to my friend alex on the telephone Subject(s): Depression, Mental TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN THE DRAWING ROOMS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the drawing-rooms I saw scarce one that seemed at ease Last Line: Own life for them. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Men; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress TRAUME II, by HARRY SMART Poem Source First Line: Born with that god-shaped hole in the heart Last Line: Shot, hanged, butchered, guillotined and unbelieved Subject(s): Depression, Mental TU'M, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tum' %tomb %pro %prodromus Last Line: Penance for an age feminine: %plastique Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Memory; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War TURKISH CARPET, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: No man could have been more unfaithful Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Erotic Love; Rugs UNCOUPLING, by EAMER O'KEEFFE Poem Source First Line: Halfway Last Line: Connect %her face Subject(s): Depression, Mental VICTIM OF HIMSELF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought he saw a long way off the ocean Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Perception; Pride; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Self-esteem; Self-respect VILLANELLE OF THE SUICIDE'S MOTHER, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I almosts go hours without crying Last Line: It can seem her whole life was her dying Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Depression, Mental VISITORS, by ELIZABETH+(2) BARTLETT Poem Source First Line: There was one in the room, thinking of the sherry Last Line: Like a perfume or a discarded cigarette burning away Subject(s): Depression, Mental VISITORS, by PAUL HENRY Poem Source First Line: The women of my earliest years Last Line: In case they should drift back in Subject(s): Depression, Mental VOICE GOES DUMB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Into the fjord of sadness Subject(s): Depression, Mental VOICE OF BOBO, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source First Line: Everything inside this room is mine Last Line: To take advantage of the sweeping views Subject(s): Depression, Mental VOICES OF BULGARIA, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source First Line: He's found a bear the same size as his mother Last Line: Like gold and jewels: marigold, my love Subject(s): Depression, Mental VOLUNTEER, by JO PESTEL Poem Source First Line: My father's had electricity shot through him Last Line: And nobody must know Subject(s): Depression, Mental WAKING IN THE BLUE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night attendant, a b. U. Sophomore Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Waking In The Blue Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness WAKING IN THE BLUE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night attendant, a b. U. Sophomore Last Line: Each of us holds a locked razor Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Waking In The Blu Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity WARD ROUND POSTPONED, by MARK JACOB Poem Source First Line: Soon, I will say things I do not believe Last Line: The reel stopped spinning and nothing had changed Subject(s): Depression, Mental WE CALL THIS THE DAY ROOM, by CHARLES JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Have you ever been here? Last Line: In the wallpaper sometimes I see buddhas or roads %seeking satori Subject(s): Depression, Mental WHAT CAN I SAY?, by CICELY HERBERT Poem Source First Line: I know, it's true -- I've begun Last Line: Where it's safe in the boxroom Subject(s): Depression, Mental WHAT YOU NEED, by LUCY COLLARD Poem Source First Line: This is what you need Last Line: To show you where you are Subject(s): Depression, Mental WHIRLWINDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The deepest dregs of direst woe Last Line: All whirlwinds. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Wind; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress WHISPERING, by PAUL HENRY Poem Source First Line: An occasional word leaps out Last Line: On the other side of the glass Subject(s): Depression, Mental WHO KNOWS?, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Some of his long time friends Last Line: Behavior & learn to %laugh at himself again Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Friendship WORDLESS WINTER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who cares what name you call it - here is comes Last Line: Felt the dark cadence castigate his arm Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychiatric Hospitals; Winter; Writing And Writers WRITTEN DURING DEPRESSION: HOW TO BE HAPPY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be happy / a man must love death Last Line: And why, my dear, I love you. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Future; Happiness; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness WROTE AT DROP-IN CENTRE, by CHRISTINE DOHERTY Poem Source First Line: Pleased to meet you Last Line: I can fly and do miracles Subject(s): Depression, Mental YOU CAN DEPEND ON GOD, YOUR FRIEND!, by BERNICE CONEY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: When the world seems to be crashing all around you Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Railroads; Religion |
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