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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEPROSY Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEPER'S GRAVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where untainted flesh Last Line: From her embraces free. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Leprosy; Tombs; Tombstones; Lepers ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Be curst the time of bullen's fatal birth Last Line: And bury them in pits as deep as graves. Subject(s): Curses; Disease; Graves; Leprosy; Small Pox; Tombs; Tombstones; Lepers DIRE: 9. THE AUGURS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect Last Line: They carve the corpse -- a beast without a heart. Subject(s): Corpses; Leprosy; Nations; Rome, Italy; Cadavers; Lepers FATHER DAMIEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, the cleanest offering Last Line: "a leper white as snow!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); Leprosy; Lepers GO IN PEACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can peach renew lost bloom Last Line: God who worked then is working now. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Leprosy; Renewal; God HAPPY; THE LEPER'S BRIDE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wail you, pretty plover? And what is it that you fear? Last Line: Of the everlasting god, I will live and die with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Leprosy; Lepers INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery LEPER, by KARIN T. ASH Poem Source First Line: You've delivered, this girl Subject(s): Leprosy LEPER, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Cursing in sorrow Last Line: He weeps red tears all night through %like flowers red Subject(s): Leprosy LEPER (1), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day was breaking Subject(s): Leprosy LEPROSIE IN CLOATHES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When flowing garments I behold Last Line: Where vertue walkes, not those that flow. Subject(s): Leprosy; Lepers LEPROSIE IN HOUSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to a house I come, and see Last Line: A house spred through with leprosie. Subject(s): Leprosy; Lepers LIFE, by HAN HA-WOON Poem Source First Line: All that has gone Last Line: The disgrace, the punishment and the leprosy Subject(s): Leprosy MOLOKAI, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven's clean space above it and around Last Line: Of tropic life but snow-clad leprosy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); Leprosy; Molokai, Hawaii; Lepers PUNISHMENT, by HAN HA-WOON Poem Source First Line: You are guilty of being a leper Last Line: This indeed is a ridiculous charge Subject(s): Leprosy SACRED EPIGRAM: THE LEPER BEGGING THE MASTER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe that you can do these things, if only you wished: but because Last Line: My snow will not be able to bear your rays Subject(s): Leprosy SACRED EPIGRAM: THE UNGRATEFUL LEPERS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While they were leaving christ- ah, [a real] illness! - they were healed Last Line: Indeed the remedy itself was thus an illness Subject(s): Leprosy SACRED EPIGRAM: THE UNGRATEFUL LEPERS (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The law orders the [unclean] lepers to go far from the company of men Last Line: Had men far away from they, now they have god Subject(s): Leprosy TEN LEPERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not white and shining like an ardent flame Last Line: Before I shall forget thee, keep me, lord, %a sick man at thy gate Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Leprosy; Religion THE LEPER, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monna keryvel looks toward the west Last Line: "lo, thy bridegroom waits -- monna, it is death!" Subject(s): Death; Leprosy; Life; Tears; Wind; Dead, The; Lepers THE LEPER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is better, I well think Last Line: The old question. Will not god do right? Subject(s): Leprosy; Love; Lepers THE LEPER (2), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for the leper! Room!' and, as he came Last Line: Prostrate at jesus' feet, and worshipped him. Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Leprosy; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Lepers THE LEPER OF LONDON, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In euston road in london town Last Line: The realms of after-hell. Subject(s): Leprosy; London; Pain; Lepers; Suffering; Misery THE LEPER'S BETROTHED, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To clasp his spirit undefiled, my spirit leapt beneath my hand Last Line: "I bless the parting voice that said, ""my love, I understand." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Leprosy; Lepers THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE STAR OF GOD'S MALISON, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging leprous and white in the wide / universe Last Line: Along the dread hush of a desolate land. Subject(s): Desolation; Leprosy; Religion; Lepers; Theology VISION OF SAINTS: FATHER DAMIEN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then there came, last risen to the skies Last Line: The love of man through his creator, god Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); Leprosy |
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