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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOSPITALS Matches Found: 247 "BETHLEHEMS BEAUTY, LONDONS CHARITY, AND THE CITIES GLORY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Story no more shall antient fabricks boast Last Line: "free citizens o' th' new jerusalem, / to raign with him was born in bethlehem" Subject(s): Charity;hospitals;london Fire (1666); Philanthropy;great Fire Of 1666 A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii; Second World War A FIRST-LOVE POEM, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The static cracks like whips over lions Last Line: By the precipitation of light falling from his humming tv Subject(s): Hospitals; Love 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 SERIOUS CASE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we happen to choke ujp on history, none too soon Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums ACCIDENTS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no infant Subject(s): Accidents; Hospitals ADMISSION, CHILDREN'S UNIT (1), by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the story of st. Lawrence that repelled me Last Line: It took four of us to pry him from his mother's arms Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses ADMISSION, CHILDREN'S UNIT (2), by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Later, I'd look up the story a friend told me years ago Last Line: It took four of us to pry the boy from his mother's arms Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses AERIE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By following many a color-coded corridor Subject(s): Barbers; Hospitals AERIE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By following many a color-coded corridor Last Line: And nimbly reached for his bag of old bread and his scissors Subject(s): Barbers; Hospitals AFTER VISITING HOURS, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like gulls they are still calling Last Line: And behind, the gulls crying Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Hospitals AN APPEAL FOR SAINT GEORGE'S HOSPITAL IN LONDON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard here in london / I have seen Last Line: Where the pigeons pair. Subject(s): Hospitals; London AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War APRIL (FROM A HOSPITAL WINDOW), by R. P. HARRISS Poem Text First Line: It is hard to sit Last Line: Her ploughtime ditty! Subject(s): Hospitals; Windows AS IF IT ONLY HAPPENS WITHIN OUR BODIES, by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: Why does daniel cringe when he speaks of his hospital stint in france, when Last Line: Binds them together, it mends Subject(s): Hospitals AT DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother in the cylinder %lies still, her small Last Line: I hear the wish of her skirt %forty years ago, %the ghost of a prayer Subject(s): Hospitals; Memory AT THE CANCER CLINIC, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is being helped toward the open door Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Hospitals AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYZED, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were in the wheelchair next to julia Subject(s): Hospitals; Paralysis AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYZED, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were in the wheelchair next to julia Last Line: You, arrow of eros, once a deer-hunter Subject(s): Hospitals; Paralysis AT THE NICU, by GEORGE SINGER Poem Source First Line: A nurse pauses by an incubator Last Line: My breath on seeing him, tiny fish Subject(s): Babies; Hospitals; Sickness BARE FEET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulnerable, bare feet of old men Last Line: Is bearable but filling it brings tears. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chivalry is not dead at new york hospital Subject(s): Hospitals; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations BETWEEN WALLS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The back wings Last Line: "pieces of a green Subject(s): Hospitals BETWEEN WALLS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The back wings Last Line: Pieces of a green bottle Subject(s): Hospitals BLUE ICE WOLF, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a paper with a bent corner, haphazardly Subject(s): Hospitals; Wolves; Dogs; Supernatural CHELSEA NAVAL HOSPITAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oceans beyond the nearest war we fought Last Line: And the barbed fences that defend your wound Subject(s): Hospitals; Veterans CHILD SUPPER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I am packing your things again Last Line: I have never been your child Subject(s): Daughters; Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers And Daughters CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals; Childhood; Work; Workers; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Last Line: God's goodness, but his better or less scorn Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals CHRYSALIS, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: From her hospital bed one afternoon Last Line: Open to let it out into the night Subject(s): Hospitals CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 1, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this must be a mouth Last Line: Impossible words, look %at me Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Surgery CITY HOSPITAL, by MARGARET BODEN Poem Text First Line: A silken thread pulled taut and tied Last Line: Footsteps, a voice, a door -- my beating heart . . . Subject(s): Hospitals COTTAGE HOSPITAL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of a long-walled garden Last Line: While the air is swimming with insects %and children play in the street Subject(s): Hospitals CURE PORCHES, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Text First Line: Long before I was born, my aunt johanna caught Subject(s): Aunts; Hospitals; Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology) CURTAINS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandpa took me along to the hospital Subject(s): Grandparents; Hospitals; Window Treatments; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek Last Line: Weep not as others weep. Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums DIRECTIVES FOR THE AFTERWORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When she sat down beside the white bed, his body Last Line: The first inexorable sign of his leaving Subject(s): Death; Hospitals; Sickness DISPARATES, SELS., by GORAN SONNEVI Poem Source First Line: I remember now my father's Last Line: Saw me go out with mama %through the sickroom door? Subject(s): Fathers; Hospitals; Sickness DIVIDING THE DARK INTO PARCELS, by PATRICIA BARONE Poem Source First Line: The ones who stay awake all night Last Line: Won't my mother %come Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Rooms; Sickness EARLY LABOR, by ELIZABETH HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Down the hospital hall a minutes-old baby Last Line: A clap of thunder rattles the monitor Subject(s): Birth; Children; Hospitals EDGEWATER HOSPITAL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keeps a different time. Across the street, lake michigan folds Subject(s): Hospitals EMERGENCY CLINIC II, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes were bulging behind thick horn-rimmed glasses Last Line: Who looked at me blankly %as if waiting for a comment on your lives Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Hospitals EMERGENCY ROOM, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Glasses part-crooked,-bent Last Line: My thank-you. A good doctor, %he expected no further answer Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nome, Alaska; Physicians; Writing And Writers FACE LIFT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bring me good news from the clinic Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Last Line: He neither knows, remembers - but instead %sleeps, comforted Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii FIRST MATERNITY, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT Poem Text First Line: Out of my window the woods are a-flutter Last Line: Parading her first young cone. Subject(s): Hospitals FLU, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today, the word means any sniffle or catarrh Last Line: Outside (we descendants following behind), %into -- was it by chance? -- shadow or light Subject(s): Death; Fever; Health; Hospitals; Sickness FOR SAINT PETER, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a good deal of sympathy for you, mate Last Line: If you know what I mean, they haven't yet learned %how to be reverent Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Hospitals; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) FOR THE SISTERS OF THE HOTEL DIEU, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pairs Last Line: The sense of angels- %be thanked, o plumage of paradise, be praised Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nuns FROM A GIRL IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning wakes me as a broken door vibrating on its hinges Last Line: The ocean is as still as a new made bed, rocking Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals FROM A WINDOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a question for us. Help me Subject(s): Hospitals FROM MY HOSPITAL WINDOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see from my hospital window Last Line: With the conquering eyes of health! Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness FROM ORTHPEDICS TO CORONARY CARE, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: I limp down the hall, a throng Last Line: My room is just, is %just down the hall Subject(s): Hospitals FROM THE ATTIC OF THE INSANE ASYLUM GATEHOUSE, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: I caught a glimpse of someone (I thought %inmate) walking under my window Last Line: My name like that, in red crayon, a long long time ago Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals GEORGE IN HOSPITAL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a while, in the hospital Last Line: This is terrible Subject(s): Hospitals GEORGE IN HOSPITAL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a while, in the hospital Last Line: To yell, 'oh mary and jesus, %this is terrible.' Subject(s): Hospitals GHOSTS OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright Last Line: The silence of the eight men who were god! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness GLIMPSES OF POWER: 4, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: A psychologist talking to a man at a state hospital Last Line: If you ain't just woofin', you be on yo' knees and askin' Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Psychology GOGGLES AND HELMET, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her living toom Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Hospitals GRAVITATION, by CARA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Source First Line: On every floor are children's beds Last Line: Look down from the mezzanine Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Sickness HAROLD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the west comes harold, with a bitter smile Last Line: And six-cent stamp for home Subject(s): Hospitals; Jews; Racism; Judaism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HAROLD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the west comes harold, with a bitter smile Last Line: For rent, food, gas to keep a car %and six-cent stamp for home Subject(s): Hospitals; Jews; Racism HAVING BEEN ASKED WHAT IS A MAN? I ANSWER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oldest son comes to visit me Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness HER PARENTS BROUGHT SUIT, BUT SINCE SHE WAS INCOHERENT ..., by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: The judge believed the shrink, and on Last Line: Please. I'm sorry, it's ok Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals HOSPITAL, by WILFRED JOHN FUNK Poem Text First Line: Here is the haven: pain touched with soft magic Last Line: A shaft of glory from the throne of god. Subject(s): Hospitals HOSPITAL, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hospital! Hospital alongside the canal! Last Line: And all of the doors are barred in the moonlight Subject(s): Hospitals HOSPITAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside or out, the key is pain. It holds Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Suffering; Misery HOSPITAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Benign big blond machine beyond all price, Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The HOSPITAL, by YUN DONG-JU Poem Source First Line: In the backyard of the hospital Last Line: Wishing her well soon and myself too, %I lie down where she has just lain Subject(s): Hospitals HOSPITAL AUDIENCE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The dreary auditorium is rimmed with portraits Last Line: Tomorrow she may be high on crack again %but right now she is dancing, dancing Subject(s): Hospitals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by MRS. VIRGIL BROWNE Poem Text First Line: In all the silent halls and rooms Last Line: Your beauty in my heart abides. Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Hospitals 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 HOSPITAL HEROES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the glory of battles Last Line: Theirs be a lasting fame! Subject(s): Health; Heroism; Hospitals; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War HOSPITAL IN WINTER, by ROY FISHER Poem Source First Line: A dark bell leadens the hour Last Line: Pink of coral sinks to brown; %a dark bell brings the dark down Subject(s): Hospitals HOSPITAL NURSERY, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: Purity - whiteness - spotlessness! Through glass Last Line: Past -- present -- future -- in the hand of fate! Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hospitals; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HOSPITAL OBSERVATION, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: Feeling the useless arm Subject(s): Hospitals; War HOSPITAL SOLILOQUY, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I swan! It's pleasant now we've beaten Last Line: They won't have time to change their mind! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; U.s. - History HOSPITAL SONG (COMPOSED WHILE EMERGING FROM THE ETHER), by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hospitals simply enchant me Last Line: But - lean a little closer - I would rather be at home Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals HOSPITAL STATE, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: The smell of piss guides us down the halls Last Line: Everything we wanted %to say. Take that Subject(s): Hospitals HOSPITAL WINDOW, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just come down from my father Last Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals HOSPITAL WINDOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke Subject(s): Hospitals; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOSPITALS ARE TO DIE IN, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They finally Last Line: It's cheaper that way. Subject(s): Death; Hospitals; Dead, The HOSPITALS: STRANGE LIGHTS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I needed a friend but Subject(s): Hospitals HYMN, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accept this building, gracious lord Last Line: The paradise of god. Subject(s): Hospitals HYMN READ AT DEDICATION OF THE OLIVER W. HOLMES HOSPITAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of love, for every grief Last Line: Be thine the glory and the praise! Subject(s): Hospitals IN A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, by ANNE-ELISE ROANE WINTER Poem Text First Line: She was an alien. Her large sloe- black eyes Last Line: Forgetting all her agony -- she smiled! Subject(s): Hospitals; Language; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Words; Vocabulary IN A SICKBED, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are still here today Last Line: It cries out with the voice of wild geese Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Sickness IN HOSPITAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I might lie like this, without the pain Last Line: And all that lake a dewdrop on a rose. Subject(s): Hospitals; Science; Scientists IN HOSPITAL: 1. ENTER PATIENT, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning mists still haunt the stony street Last Line: Cold, naked, clean -- half workhouse and half-jail. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 10. STAFF NURSE: NEW STYLE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue-eyed and bright of face but waning fast Last Line: Draught, counsel, diagnosis, exhortation. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses IN HOSPITAL: 11. CLINICAL, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist! - / through the corridor's echoes Last Line: Brilliantly hideous with red. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 12. ETCHING, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two and thirty is the ploughman Last Line: In his voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 13. CASUALTY, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As with varnish red and glistening Last Line: But her lip was grey and writhen. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 14. AVE, CAESAR!, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the winter's grey despair Last Line: Mingles all men for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 15. 'THE CHIEF', by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His brow spreads large and placid, and his eye Last Line: As once the son of zeus with death and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 16. HOUSE-SURGEON, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exceeding tall, but built so well his height Last Line: And cultivate his mild philistinism. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Surgery; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 17. INTERLUDE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, the fun, the fun and frolic Last Line: New year comes but once a twelvemonth. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Hospitals; New Year IN HOSPITAL: 18. CHILDREN: PRIVATE WARD, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this dim, dull, double-bedded room Last Line: Holding the limb and moaning -- case and dresser. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Childhood IN HOSPITAL: 19. SCRUBBER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face Last Line: No rougher, quainter speech, nor kinder heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 2. WAITING, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A square, squat room (a cellar on promotion) Last Line: Life is (I think) a blunder and a shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 20. VISITOR, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her little face is like a walnut shell Last Line: Strong in a cheerful trust that never fails. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 21. ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk of pluck!' pursued the sailor Last Line: "and they meant it too, by thunder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Hospitals; United States - History IN HOSPITAL: 22. PASTORAL, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the spring Last Line: Impotent t, winter at heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Spring IN HOSPITAL: 23. MUSIC, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the quiet eve Last Line: Airs of london. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Music & Musicians IN HOSPITAL: 24. SUICIDE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staring corpselike at the ceiling Last Line: Yet so slavish, makes you shudder! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Suicide IN HOSPITAL: 25. APPARITION, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakable Last Line: And something of the shorter-catechist. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 26. ANTEROTICS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughs the happy april morn Last Line: O, the spring -- the spring -- the spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses; Spring IN HOSPITAL: 27. NOCTURN, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the barren heart of midnight Last Line: In the drip-drop of the cistern. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 28. DISCHARGED, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carry me out Last Line: Into the wonderful world. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 3. INTERIOR, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt brown walls Last Line: O, a gruesome world! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 4. BEFORE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold me waiting - waiting for the knife Last Line: You carry caesar and his fortunes - steady! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 5. OPERATION, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are carried in a basket Last Line: On a hushed, attentive audience. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery IN HOSPITAL: 6. AFTER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke Last Line: To an immense, complacent dreamery. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery IN HOSPITAL: 7. VIGIL, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lived on one's back Last Line: The unnatural, intolerable day. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN HOSPITAL: 8. STAFF-NURSE: OLD STYLE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greater masters of the commonplace Last Line: They say 'the chief' himself is half-afraid of her. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses IN HOSPITAL: 9. LADY-PROBATIONER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some three, or five, or seven, and thirty years Last Line: Somehow, I rather think she has a history. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses IN HOSPITAL: ENVOY, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember / that afternoon - that sunday afternoon! Last Line: Unjangled till the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals IN PLASTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Plaster Casts IN PLASTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now Last Line: And she'll perish with emptiness then, and begin to miss me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Plaster Casts IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the legless boy show the great lady Last Line: But would the sound of your sticks on the floor %thundered in her skull for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Amputees; Children; Hospitals IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You look, above the broken bodies Subject(s): Children; Hospitals IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our doctor had call'd in another, I never had seen him before Last Line: The lord of the children had heard her, and emmie had past away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Surgery; Childhood IN THE COMMON ROOM, by PAM BERNARD Poem Source First Line: White coat flapping, dr. Howland Last Line: Touch, says, he doesn't even know you're alive Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Religion IN THE DAYROOM, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: There's a squabble over which rocker is whose. Every time any- Last Line: Enough hallelujahs in here without heads hitting the floor, too Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity IN THE HOSPITAL, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The white gowned doctor holds the charming arm Last Line: And the patient rushes on in his two-armed dream. Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals IN THE HOSPITAL, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Now, his appetite lost, too, he wants Last Line: Seemed capable, almost, of rising Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness IN THE HOSPITAL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because on the branch that is tapping my pane Last Line: There is god. Subject(s): Hospitals IN THE HOSPITAL, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: I lay me down to sleep Last Line: Lead after him. Variant Title(s): Rest;requiescam Subject(s): Death; Hospitals; Patriotism; Dead, The IN THE HOSPITAL, by JACK K. ISRAEL Poem Source First Line: I'm in the hospital, not dying Last Line: Light seemed to film his skin, %to fill his cup and bowl Subject(s): Hospitals 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 IN THE HOSPITAL IT'S TWO O'CLOCK, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Enter the room, double Last Line: Its' denied him Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Sickness INVISIBLE, by KAREN DALE Poem Source First Line: For a time I am invisible, it seems, swathed in thin blankets, waiting in Last Line: He is needed, worshiped, loved Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Radiology; Sickness; Surgery IRONING, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: The pattern flows. Leaves and flowers blend, a river spinning over the Last Line: -gle pink and blue. Green. I am ironing her blouse. Only this motion is %left Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Blood; Hospitals; Mothers And Daughters JIG FOR THE INSANE ASYLUM GATEHOUSE NOW CONDEMNED, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: My fingers slap the tone holes Last Line: Breathes into a two-bit whistle %and dead peasants dance Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals LATERNA MAGICA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you remember Last Line: That rise like faces out of smoke. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Hospitals; Miracles LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The metal harps of the high gates Last Line: I love its glint among the dust and stones. Subject(s): Change; Hospitals; Insanity; Introspection; Self-reliance; Madness; Mental Illness LETTER FROM AN INSTITUTION, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ward beds float like ghost ships Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Dreams; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums; Nightmares LIKE A SCARF, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LIPIDS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: As he walked the grounds of elmhurst, he stopped Last Line: From the filamentous strands that entangled his life Subject(s): Chemistry; Hospitals; Medicine; Physics LOST IN THE HOSPITAL, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hospitals LOVE IN THE ASYLUM, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger has come Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Love; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums LYING IN WAIT, by TOMASZ JASTRUN Poem Source First Line: The cancer ward lies in wait Last Line: Smiles and bright green eyes Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Hospitals; Waiting MADHOUSE, by CALVIN C. HERNTON Poem Source First Line: Here is a place that is no place Last Line: From nothing, and that nothing is always a thing %to drive us mad Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals MASTECTOMY POEMS: 2. THE GURNEY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this long corridor above the street Last Line: How good it is, not to be anywhere Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die. Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism MEMORIES IN HOSPITAL, by ALFRED HERMAN FRIEDRICH VAGTS Poem Text First Line: The beds are hutches, snow-frozen, where I lie, leaking away Last Line: That bends above my couch, again and yet again. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I - Casualties MENTAL MOMMY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school at six years old, first grade, Subject(s): Mothers; Coming Of Age; Prisons & Prisoners; Insanity; Hospitals; Convicts; Madness; Mental Illness MIDNIGHT TECH'S MEDITATION, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Here life's pure Last Line: It takes %to fill the body Subject(s): Hospitals MISERABLE NIGHT, by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR Poem Text First Line: It is raining tonight Last Line: God, how the patients cough! Subject(s): Hospitals; Rain; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life MISS DRAKE PROCEEDS TG SUPPER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No novice / in those elaborate rituals Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Hospitals; Madness; Mental Illness MON SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je demande qu'on me doone Last Line: Arrangera tout pour mon bien Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets MORNING REPORT ON HEALTH, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You just came home from the hospital Last Line: For the times when you'll be abandoned %again Subject(s): Health; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me only with playthings now Last Line: And the world was all playthings. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I; First World War MY SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I demand that they give me a bed Last Line: And arrange things for my welfare Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets NEW YEAR'S EVE, IN HOSPITAL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can hate the sea as it floods Subject(s): Hospitals; Sea; Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Ocean NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 1. TWILIGHT, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: Ten hours after surgery Last Line: I thought it was the devil %or a big bat Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 2. PROTOCOL, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: I always feel that if I had been an important functionary Last Line: Is the female intern listening to him talk to me Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 3. DRUGS, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: Every three and one half hours Last Line: Just say so Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 4. MY GREAT SECRET TERROR REVEALED, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: This long corridor is all gynecological surgery and Last Line: Whatever was wrong with me Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 5. URINE, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: Aren't hospitals funny places, says dr. T. With the usual Last Line: The interest. The applause Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 6. THE WOMAN WHOSE BED IS KITTY-CORNER ..., by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: Seems nice but dumb Last Line: Good-bye. Grandma loves you Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 7. LET ME OUT, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: I'm really in a state Last Line: Oh, I wish my hair hadn't just been tonsured %so I could suck on the end of a braid! Subject(s): Hospitals NEW YORK HOSPITAL POEM: 8. SCARS, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: My brother is a favorite visitor Last Line: And we are grateful that, at the moment, we're alive Subject(s): Hospitals NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses NOTES AFTER ETHER, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd wanted to bring back something from that darkness Subject(s): Hospitals NURSE IN THE TERRIBLE DOORWAY, by ERIC ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Calls my name, a clipboard Last Line: But not yet %cured, never cured Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness ODE ON VISITING THE RETREAT NEAR YORK; ... FOR INSANE PERSONS, by CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Hail to these tranquil shades, this calm retreat Last Line: Heaven bade this structure rise, and call'd it the retreat Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals ON THE MAD-HOUSE AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour aright the philosophic thought Last Line: Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Venice, Italy; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums OUT-PATIENTS, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: In alice blue gowns with three sleeves Last Line: Even as it hurts our eyes Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness PATIENT: ROCKLAND COUNTY SANITARIUM, by CALVIN C. HERNTON Poem Source First Line: Here is a place that is no place Last Line: And stare out upon the great hecatomb of life with cold, %immobile, terrified eyes Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women PLAYING PINOCHLE AT LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: In the distinct, harsh days Last Line: Here are the exulting, monstrous translations %of the night Subject(s): Card Games; Hospitals; Insanity RECOLLECTINS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Book, lie you there: such borrowed wings Last Line: Nought can remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Hospitals RED CROSS NURSES, by GERVASE STEWART Poem Source First Line: Theirs is a white and a green life, a smooth Subject(s): Hospitals; War REFLECTIONS IN A HOSPITAL, by EMANUEL EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Myrtle, as I lie here, wrapped in Subject(s): Hospitals REFLECTIONS ON THE RUINS OF THE ASYLUM AT SAINT-REMY, by PRISCILLA ATKINS Poem Source First Line: A strand of ivy scrambles Last Line: Following the grooves %of a slow wagon Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals REPORT FROM THE HOSPITAL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We used matches to draw lots; who would visit him Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Dead, The RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stares %at the doctor Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness ROOM 420, SISTERS OF MERCY HOSPITAL, JUNE 1985: THE VISITORS, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Like a dream fading, they inhabit the room Last Line: The moment when the mirror floods with music Subject(s): Hospitals SAILORS' HOSPITAL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was warm Last Line: Out of hail of our love Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Hospitals SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL, by BERTHA LAVINA GATES Poem Text First Line: Tenements their regimental lines Last Line: Where death lays down, and birth takes up the task. Subject(s): Hospitals SCENE IN A COUNTRY HOSPITAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lonely, wounded and apart Last Line: Thank heaven! This -- all -- ends with me soon. Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; United States - History SEVENTH FLOOR: CANCER WARD, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the elect in this inverse hell Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Hospitals SIX BUILDINGS: 2. HOSPITAL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Large, low, whirring block of perfectly white, perfectly Last Line: Sharply with the bright salmon of the vestigial lid Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Medicine SOHO HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange room, from this angle Last Line: To the lights and the long street curving Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Hospitals; Women SONNETS FROM A HOSPITAL: SPRING, by DAVID MORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering sunlight on the steepled square Subject(s): Hospitals SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes Last Line: They yield the field Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, HYDE PARK CORNER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are familiar things, and yet how few Last Line: Wore its pale marble look of cold defiance. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hospitals STILL-HILDRETH SANATORIUM, 1936, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she wasn't on rounds she was counting Last Line: Lift like a good child my face to be kissed Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums STILL-HILDRETH SANATORIUM, 1936, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she wasn't on rounds she was counting Last Line: Lift like a good child my face to be kissed Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals SUICIDE POEM, by NICOLE DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: When I was fifteen Last Line: Hold a special place in older women's hearts Subject(s): Family Life; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; Suicide SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men; Madness; Mental Illness SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Last Line: And trying with almost no success %to bring the present to its mouth Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men SUNDAY LUNCH AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL, by RICHARD FREIS Poem Source First Line: As in most hospital cafeterias, fried Last Line: A hungry revenant of such tradition Subject(s): Food And Eating; Hospitals TABLET OVER THE MAIN ENTRANCE, JESUS HOSPITAL, ROTHWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God bless our governors prolong their days Last Line: What we now have we thankfully possess %till we exchange for greater happiness Subject(s): Hospitals TETANUS SHOT, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: My godson's cut finger glistens Last Line: When viewed from an open grave Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Pain THE AMBULANCE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see in our bustling town Last Line: For a breath of heaven in the darkest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Healing; Hospitals; Red Cross; Sickness; Cures; Illness THE ASYLUM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my asylum Last Line: We're afraid of going -- sane! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Illness; Ennui; Convicts THE BOROUGH: LETTER 17. THE HOSPITAL AND GOVERNORS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ardent spirit dwells with christian love Last Line: And even vices to the work of love. Subject(s): Charity; Hospitals; Philanthropy THE BRITISH PRISON-SHIP, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these ills no tyrant dared refuse Last Line: And his last efforts more than damn the first. Subject(s): American Revolution; Hospitals; Navy - Great Britain; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea Battles; English Navy; Convicts; Naval Warfare THE COTTAGE HOSPITAL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of a long-walled garden Subject(s): Hospitals THE DARK, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Agitated, rolling in her barred bed Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Hospitals; Illness THE DEMOCRATIC DIME, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This perfect hospital to every ill Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Hospitals 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 HOSPITAL VISITOR, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: I've all the equipment I had at my birth; Last Line: With tales of how they and their organs were parted. Subject(s): Hospitals THE HOSPITAL WAITING-ROOM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We wait our turn, as still as mice Last Line: Until a welcome voice cried -- 'next!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hospitals THE HOSPITAL WINDOW, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals; Dead, The THE LOCKED WARD: O.T., by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poster paints, big brushes Last Line: Sir … none Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 2. THE GURNEY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this long corridor above the street Last Line: How good it is, not to be anywhere Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery THE MENTAL HOSPITAL GARDEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is far to assisi Last Line: The full meaning / of it / all Subject(s): Religion; Psychiatric Hospitals; Gardens & Gardening; Theology THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE NEW JEWISH HOSPITAL AT HAMBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hospital for jews who're sick and needy Last Line: His brethren's great, incurable misfortune. Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Hospitals; Jews; Judaism THE NEW JEWISH HOSPITAL AT HAMBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hospital for the poor and weary jew Last Line: For his poor brethren's immedicable ill. Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Hospitals; Jews; Judaism THE SIGNS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he should lift his hand Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Childhood THE STONES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the city where men are mended. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Illness; Hospitals THE SURGEON AT 2 A.M., by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white light is artificial, and hygienic as heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Surgery; Hospitals THE WARD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ward attendant who owns his home speaks amicably Last Line: Patients and attendant compose the ward Subject(s): Hospitals THE WORK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, this moment, speechlessly in pain, Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Hospitals THEY SAID, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said your footprints were stamped in blood Last Line: Say what hurts. Subject(s): Hospitals; Police; Regret; Violence THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hospitals TO DOCUMENT A 20-SECOND HUG BETWEEN TWO WOMEN IN A HOSPITAL, by MARLENE PEARSON Poem Source First Line: Mark saw it next grabbed a pen %wrote what he'd watched Last Line: Like the 'l' word %like a lesbian Subject(s): Homosexuality; Psychiatric Hospitals TOOLON HOSPITAL, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I am the stranger in the room Last Line: And I am just beginning to understand Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Hospitals TRIOLET, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full 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 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITAL, 1976, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: The last time I walked into Last Line: Good foods, slept the right amount, %lived the short life of convalescence Subject(s): Hospitals UNNUMBERED WARD, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And accustomed ungentle hands of two blue-uniformed attendants Subject(s): Hospitals VIATICUM, by ETHNA MACCARTHY Poem Source First Line: The sluice gates of sleep are open wide Subject(s): Hospitals VISITORS LAUGH AT LOCKSMITHS, OR HOSPITAL DOORS ..., by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I should like to know is, which would everybody rather not do Last Line: And spend my days being visited by friends who are thereby being punished for being well Subject(s): Hospitals WAITING IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reflect on my son's crying [or, on this desperate note] Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Sickness; Childhood; Illness WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here women, frightened, bring their sex Last Line: Our bottoms betray us and beg for the light Subject(s): Hospitals; Women; Sex WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here women, frightened, bring their sex Last Line: Our bottoms betray is and beg for the light Subject(s): Hospitals WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad are mad for cigarettes Last Line: Murder to out; when women crack sex Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad are mad for cigarettes Last Line: Murder to out; when women crack, sex Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WEATHER REPORT FROM THE STATE ASYLUM, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad old women, bolted from april's weather Last Line: Gray secret face raised quietly, between Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WESTERN-TRAINED IN THE OTHER WORLD, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bolted out of bed full of ideas Last Line: A fox-trot, saw yourself in black tuxedos Subject(s): Death - Children; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness WHAT MAKES THE HOSPITAL CUBAN, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The patients are tired Last Line: Of patients longing %for what cannot be Subject(s): Hospitals WOMEN'S WARD, by GENOA MORRIS Poem Text First Line: In ordered groups they sit Last Line: "lost!" Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Women; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums 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 WYTHEVILLE HOSPITAL, FEBRUARY, 1985, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: To help his cracked ribs heal, he was supposed Last Line: You need a light on to read,' my father said, %'turn it on, son' Subject(s): Fathers; Hospitals YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks Last Line: They dance the dance they dance Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats |
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