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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DRUGS, PRESCRIPTION Matches Found: 42 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOSPITAL GOOD-MORNING, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: Tis five of the clock and the birds are waking Last Line: The cheery, sweet hospital nurse. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors CEMETERY WINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a bright swarm of pennies in the grass, or Last Line: At being carried away by such small wings. Subject(s): Allergies; Medicine; Memory; Drugs, Prescription COUGH MEDICINE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grape robitussen tastes like melted lollipop Last Line: Down the bathtub drain, who are frozen in place forever Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription DRUG STORE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, lady, but I wanta ast you Last Line: If I ever get it... Subject(s): Ambition; Medicine; Retail Trade; Drugs, Prescription; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER), by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors FAMILY DOCTOR, by DOROTHY BLADIN HILL Poem Text First Line: Out of a world of black ignorance and ... Fear Last Line: To help the world face yet another day. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription FEELING NO PAIN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless the ear doc Subject(s): Illness; Ears; Medicine; Drugs, Prescription GHAZALS: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is thin and watery; fish in the air Last Line: Him to death. Within minutes death can come by bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Medicine; Night; Sex; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Bedtime GREAT MALADIES, LONG MEDICINES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To an old soare a long cure must goe on Last Line: Great faults require great satisfaction. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription HER FINAL SHOW, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said it was a better way to die Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Gays & Lesbians; Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it." Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN THE HOSPITAL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grimed with misery, want, and sin Last Line: He knew, at last what life had meant. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A rheumatic old man of white plains Last Line: That's all he gets for his pains Subject(s): Medicine; "drugs, Prescription; MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight. Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors MEDICINE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was Last Line: You're going to live. Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism MOTHER JUNKIE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has the shakes, thinks she's gonna die Last Line: To the east river, five blocks away Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Medicine; Substance Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Drugs, Prescription; Addictive Behavior ON HYGIENE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried Last Line: Both how to make men sick and keep them so Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription S.W., by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleadinmg. Too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aids Subject(s): Surgery; Aids (disease); Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SPRING TONICS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love it when the folks begin Last Line: Just yell an' dance an' make 'em cry! Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription SUM PRACTYSIS OF MEDECYNE, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guk, guk, gud day, ser, gaip quhill ye get it Last Line: (ane uthir manis erss.) Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 1. AIR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Daughter of paeon, queen of every joy Last Line: First-born of heaven, and only less than god! Subject(s): Health; Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Medicine; Oxygen; Drugs, Prescription THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 4. THE PASSIONS, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The choice of aliment, the choice of air Last Line: One power of physic, melody, and song. Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (DRUGS), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man tried to read the small type, but it was too small. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken. Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE HEALER, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: A calm-eyed wraith, sleep glides across Last Line: Before the burgeoning of day! Subject(s): Medicine; Miracles; Drugs, Prescription THE HEART IN THE JAR; MEDITATION UPON NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive it beats in a bosom of glass Last Line: Death and the artist grapple for the knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944); Health; Hearts; Medicine; Veins; Arteries; Drugs, Prescription THE HOSPITAL NURSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know when I am dead?' Last Line: "and for thy love to worship thee." Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Illness THE MURMUR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor flicks on a light Last Line: Red and green and indigo. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Medicine; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription; Parenthood THE NEWCASTLE APOTHECARY, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: A man, in many a country town, we know Last Line: "the singing-writer with a bastard fame." Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription THE PILL, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ... Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked. Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE TIMELY TOPIC, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When modern people get together, they do Last Line: Mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon! Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness THE WAITING ROOM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ladies in the waiting room of the atchley pavilion Last Line: Tropical design on sleeves) has lit a cigarette Subject(s): Medicine; Women; Drugs, Prescription THOUGHTS BEFORE DAWN; FOR MARY BUI THI KHUY, 1944-1969, by JOHN BALABAN Poem 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 TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger, and from thee. Variant Title(s): To Doctor Empirick Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors TRIOLET, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perfectly clear liquid like water Last Line: Last night, in the cold hospital, this is what I saw. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors UNIVERSAL MEDICINE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man discovered the universal medicine Subject(s): Mankind; Medicine; Human Race; Drugs, Prescription WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Last Line: It was fabulous, what the body told Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Subject(s): Physicians; Medicine; Physicians; Doctors; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What truth the doctor reads Last Line: And breath. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors |
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