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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INSANE ASYLUMS Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 EMERALD ICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a jeweler Subject(s): Beauty; Emeralds; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums 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 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 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 MOTHER AND CHILD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She feared the baby would fall Last Line: Hands resting upon her Subject(s): Mothers; Death – Children; Death - Babies; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums 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 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 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 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 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 |
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