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Subject: EPIDEMICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE-FLY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five summer days, five summer nights
Last Line: To glut the carriers of her epidemics - %nor did the peach complain
Subject(s): Epidemics; Flies


DARKNESS WAS OVERTRACED ON EVERY FACE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Despair; Epidemics


EPIDEMIC, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tony, lymphoma, who has smoothed my rumpled fenders for thirty-odd %years
Last Line: Don't talk, I say to myself in vain. Don't even answer the phone
Subject(s): Epidemics


FOR CHILDREN KILLED IN A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC, by RYOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring arrives
Last Line: Will never return
Subject(s): Epidemics; Small Pox; Zen Buddhism


MRS. REUBEN CHANDLER TO HUSBAND, CHOLERA EPIDEMIC, 1849, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two weeks aboard the general wayne
Subject(s): Cholera; Epidemics


MRS. REUBEN CHANDLER TO HUSBAND, CHOLERA EPIDEMIC, 1849, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two weeks aboard the general wayne
Last Line: Why you have left me without support
Subject(s): Cholera; Epidemics


OEDIPUS REX [TYRANNUS][OR, OEDIPUS THE KING]: IN TIME OF PESTILENCE, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad message of the voice of zeus
Last Line: Blazing for us, strike at the god cursed among gods, and save!
Subject(s): Epidemics


REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter
Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies!
Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies
Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English


SEDOKA: FOR THE CHILDREN WHO DIED IN A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC, by RYOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring comes
Subject(s): Epidemics; Small Pox


STATE OF THE UNION: 20. AN EPIDEMIC WITHOUT A NAME, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another one gone
Last Line: Fear beats the drum
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Disease; Epidemics


THE BLUE-FLY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five summer days, five summer nights
Subject(s): Epidemics; Flies


TO THE EDITORS FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S MOTHER, MARY ROSE MACINTYRE, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sirs, %my childhood was filled with stories of the 'flu epidemic of 1918-1919
Last Line: Signed %mary rose macintyre
Subject(s): Epidemics; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sickness


TYPHUS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole earth was covered with snow,
Last Line: We were poor—a box was worth something
Subject(s): Epidemics; Plums; Death; Plum Trees; Dead, The