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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HAT TRIMMED BY A MADWOMAN, by RUTH MASON RICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw she'd trimmed the straw hat with avid care
Last Line: Not knowing she had sewed her madness there.
Subject(s): Hats; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


A LIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Life; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man prospecting for the gold
Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery


ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow
Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking


CHRISTOPHER SMART, by STANLEY SHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mad is the poet men call kit
Last Line: Mad as his faith is strong.
Subject(s): Insanity; Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Madness; Mental Illness


COR INSURGENS, by H. COLUMBUS ISAACS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last I've 'scaped those prison walls
Last Line: Oh god, let madness return again!
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This one was put in a jacket
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness


DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back on medication / he takes inventory
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


DOC HOLLIDAY, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silences grow taller
Last Line: Of the once happy beast
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


DON QUIXOTE, by HANNELORE JOSEPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you died sane, oh jester of the universe
Last Line: Of all humanity -- we're all in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Don Quixote; Insanity; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness


EVENING IN THE SANITARIUM, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The free evening fades, outside windows fastened with decorative iron grilles
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because there was no other place
Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology


FOR THE MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You will be alone at last
Last Line: They will say you are well
Subject(s): Anger; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


GEO-BESTIARY: 17, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sent far from my land of bears
Last Line: And learned to bob like an apple on the river's surface.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


HAMLET, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's there?
Last Line: Of ordnance is shot off.
Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Revenge; Supernatural; Tragedy; Madness; Mental Illness


HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit
Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons & Prisoners; Surgery; Negroes; American Blacks; Madness; Mental Illness; Convicts


IN A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dark time, the eye begins to see
Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Night; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime


IN THE SUBWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaos is tamed and ordered as we ride
Last Line: Reading their papers calmly, leisurely.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness


INSANITY, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My mind is dark with shadows of a sea
Last Line: My mind is dark with shadows of a sea.
Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Madness; Mental Illness


LABOR, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a potion of forgetfulness
Last Line: Saved the first man, perchance, from going mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Insanity; Labor & Laborers; Madness; Mental Illness; Work; Workers


LAST ON EARTH, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said that many have been cured of madness by drinking
Subject(s): Christianity; God; Drinks & Drinking; Insanity; Wine; Madness; Mental Illness


LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem 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


LOWCOUP, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Craziness is no / act
Last Line: To speak / for god
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MAD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When she was but a little child
Last Line: Even for her afflicted face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MAD JUDY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the hamlet hailed a birth
Last Line: Judy was insane, we knew.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MAD POLL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There goes mad poll, dressed in wild flowers
Last Line: Ha, ha!' poll laughs, and skips away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild winds weep
Last Line: With frantic pain.
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


MAD SONG, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My madness is dear to me
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MAD TOM TATTERMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old man, grey man, good man scavenger,
Last Line: "flocks are whiter than the flocks that all your shepherds keep."
Subject(s): Babylon; Insanity; Sleep; Madness; Mental Illness


MADMAN, by MARIAN NEVIN FUNK    Poem Text                    
First Line: He said he was afraid
Last Line: In his brain.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MADNESS, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay in the house mostly living
Last Line: Help help madness help
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town
Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itself
Subject(s): Insanity; Summer; Madness; Mental Illness


MANIAC'S SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can but smile when others weep
Last Line: Than all the smiles I ever knew.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MAZORRA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of shock treatment
Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


MENTAL CASES, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?
Last Line: Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.
Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers' Writings; War Injuries; World War I; Madness; Mental Illness; First World War


MENTAL CASES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: --and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love
Subject(s): Insanity; Nursing Homes; Voices; Madness; Mental Illness; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living


MENTAL MOMMY, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem 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


MENTAL-HEALTH WORKERS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mostly we were able to ignore the hairy thing
Subject(s): Insanity; Labor & Laborers; Madness; Mental Illness; Work; Workers


MISS DRAKE PROCEEDS TG SUPPER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem 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


MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer
Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain!
Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean


NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology


OLD AND CRAZY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Though rising early with the lark
Last Line: Who blames the poor old owl? Not I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


ON A PAINTING BY PATIENT B OF INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These seven houses have learned to face one another
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While mad ophelia we lament
Last Line: Or a dead-ebb of grief.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day
Last Line: And her madness passed away.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery


QUERY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What holds the swift enquiring mind
Last Line: Murmured a spell to guard the soul.
Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Shadows; Wandering & Wanderers; Madness; Mental Illness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And this is the way they ring
Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness


RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks
Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism


SARA, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain
Last Line: A white cloth against the glass
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


SEELE IN RAUM, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It sat between my husband and my children
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


SEQUENCE: 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad have black roots in their brains
Last Line: The beating shriller.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


SONG: SCENE IN A MADHOUSE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sings her wild dirges, and smiles 'mid the strain
Last Line: Your meekness who taught you? -- 'the willow.'
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


SONNET FOUND IN A DESERTED MAD HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize!
Last Line: Like a potato riding on the blast
Subject(s): Insanity;nonsense; Madness;mental Illness


SPARROW BONES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He told the secrets of his life
Last Line: Before he flew.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


STONEHENGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each morning he'd anoint the room's four corners
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


STRIKERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mud and scum of things
Last Line: Nothing shall keep us dumb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Insanity; Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; Madness; Mental Illness; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


SUNDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was sunday-/ eleven in the morning; people were at / church
Last Line: It was sunday!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Insanity; Marching & Marches; Sabbath; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness; Sunday


SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sitting across the table
Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men; Madness; Mental Illness


TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town thought me a model woman
Last Line: What a horrid thing I was when I got started.
Subject(s): Insanity; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Murder; Orphans; Madness; Mental Illness; Foundlings


THAT DAY AT BOILING DOWNS, by JACK MATHIEU    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was driving irish tandem, but perhaps I talk at random
Last Line: "for my nerves were much affected that day out on boiling downs."
Subject(s): Insanity; Murder; Story-telling; Madness; Mental Illness


THE ANOMALY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While riding in my buzz-buzz cart, I hit
Last Line: That swiftly hies, I'll always try to run him down in preference to other guys.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE BEDLAMITE, by THOMAS MOZEEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis not on the face displayed, / what I suffer, cruel maid!
Last Line: An angel, now in heaven.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the one in the irt tunnel
Last Line: From each of their graves I rise, daughter. Embrace me
Subject(s): Insanity; Talk; Women; Madness; Mental Illness


THE FEAR OF MADNESS; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is something which I dread
Last Line: (final poem)
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Insanity; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness; Illness


THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted
Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THE HURRY OF THE SPIRITS, IN A FEVER AND NERVOUS DISORDERS, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My frame of nature is a ruffled sea
Last Line: And pay their duties to the ruling mind?
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE IDIOT GIRL, by MARY F. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Start not at her, who, in fantastic guise
Last Line: "they both are in, and will come out no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Moncrieff, Mary F. Johnson
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day
Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air.
Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods


THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue
Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold.
Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs


THE MAD GARDENER'S SONG, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just the place for a snark! The bellman cried,
Last Line: "extinquishes all hope!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Variant Title(s): Some Hallucinations;the Gardener's Song;the Strange Wild Song
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE MAD MAID'S SONG, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morrow to the day so fair
Last Line: That I shall never find him!
Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Madness; Mental Illness


THE MAD PHILOSOPHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They let him wander as he will
Last Line: Of his poor mind's imaginings.
Subject(s): God; Insanity; Love; Philosophy & Philosophers; Madness; Mental Illness


THE MADMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His eye was stern and wild - his cheek was pale and cold as clay
Last Line: "and ere I could arrest his hands, he had -- begun to shave!"
Subject(s): Insanity;shaving; Madness;mental Illness


THE MANIAC, by MARY BRYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My own maria! -- ah my own -- my own!
Last Line: In memory's tenderest thoughts, I have been all thine own!
Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE MANIAC, by MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe!
Last Line: Your task is done,—I 'm mad! I 'm mad!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Monk
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE MANIAC, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What art thou, whose eye-balls roll
Last Line: And with soft pity's balm enchant thee to repose.
Subject(s): Insanity; Pain; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery


THE MANIAC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw them sitting in the shade
Last Line: Oh, hide me! Hide me! Hide me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Insanity; Jealousy; Murder; Madness; Mental Illness


THE PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They renounce the very idea
Last Line: Like the crazy birds, to their offspring.
Subject(s): Children; Insanity; Parents; Childhood; Madness; Mental Illness; Parenthood


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 223, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People can't explain / the reason they're so crazy
Last Line: Homage to the buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insanity; Buddha; Buddhists; Madness; Mental Illness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 234, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain speaks these words
Last Line: And karma holds the reins
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Insanity; Wisdom; Madness; Mental Illness


THE PULSE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman in a psychiatric ward
Last Line: In the acequia never returns.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE SUPREMER SACRIFICE, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close now the door; shut down the light
Last Line: When next I see the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE SYMBOL OF MADNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll now begin to sing the song
Last Line: "above the reach of vulgarity."
Subject(s): Grief; Insanity; Nations; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THERE WAS A MAN AND HE WAS MAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And there he cut his nose off / and flung it at the people
Subject(s): Insanity;noses; Madness;mental Illness


TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace
Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death
Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators


TO A YOUNG LADY, WHOSE MOTHER WAS INSANE FROM HER BIRTH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And thou hast never, never known
Last Line: Than thus to see them languish.
Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers; Madness; Mental Illness


TO F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You call me mad tis folly to do so
Last Line: If you do not you are but what you was
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Insanity; Mythology; Madness; Mental Illness


TO ONE IN BEDLAM, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars
Last Line: The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


TOM O' BEDLAM'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the hagg and hungrie goblin
Last Line: "yet will I sing, etc."
Variant Title(s): Loving Mad Tom
Subject(s): Insanity;night; Madness;mental Illness;bedtime


TOM THE LUNATIC, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sand old tom the lunatic
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


VIEWPOINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When dante in old florence walked the / street
Last Line: "whispered with laughter, ""yon's a crazy man!"
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the house of bedlam
Last Line: That lies in the house of bedlam
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem 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


WAKING IN THE BLUE, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night attendant, a b. U. Sophomore
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Waking In The Blue
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness


WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath
Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war!
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness


WITCH BURNING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


WORDS IN THE VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven, too
Subject(s): Insanity; Poetry & Poets; Madness; Mental Illness


WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows
Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky.
Variant Title(s): His Last Verses
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness


WRITTEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DELIRIUM, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion
Last Line: Buried above ground.
Variant Title(s): Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity;lines Written Under The Influence Of Delirium
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, doctor martin, walk
Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology