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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