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Subject: MENTAL DISTRESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MUSICIAN'S WIFE, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the visits to the shock ward
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


APPREHENSIONS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


APPROACH, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apparelled in a mask of joy till now
Last Line: The steady silence draws thy spirit near.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


BLACK APRIL, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could god have meant the spring to hurt us so
Last Line: Just one black night of agony?
Subject(s): April; Depression, Mental; Grief; Spring; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


CANTO 115, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scientists are in terror
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


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


DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me
Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental; Death - Babies; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I a man of gingerbread that you should mould me to your liking?
Last Line: The curtain falls.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Graves; Love; Physicians; Sleep; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Doctors


DEPRESSION, by EVALYN SCHAFFLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We drift...Like ships becalmed in fog at sea
Last Line: When foghorns sound their wailing through the dark!
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


DEPRIVATION, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dull knife cuts our hand
Last Line: For a long time
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Solitude; Thirst; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Loneliness


DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils
Variant Title(s): Dolour
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness; Clerks


HEARD IN A VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven, too, / you'd be institutionalized
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


HYSTERIA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her
Last Line: Attention with careful subtlety to this end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


I AM VERTICAL, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But I would rather be horizontal
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


IN BACK OF THE REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Railroad yard in san jose
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


KINDRED, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What inequality
Last Line: A garland for my spirit weaves.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin
Last Line: The grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


MADMAN I HAVE BEEN CALLED, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madman I have been called; fool they call thee
Last Line: I wonder which they envy thee or me
Subject(s): Bible; Depression, Mental; Mythology; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer sun ray
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology


ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains of rock
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


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


SICK MINDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When I am sick and dark depression
Last Line: Is magic that restores my own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


STANZA WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR DULWICH, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lark soars up in the air
Last Line: Were the truer type of my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Soul; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come
Last Line: The grave the inn of rest.
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics


THE CIRCLE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grief comes back after an interval
Last Line: And feel the weight of my old sorrow's chain.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Grief; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I put those things there. - see them burn
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Clergy; Depression, Mental; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


THE STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The town does not exist
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology


THE VISITATION OF PEACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept
Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land.
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


TO GEORGE BORROW (LAVENGRO), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: No 'book,' but your own heart, was written, borrow
Last Line: Knight of the ancient ruth and fearless fibre!
Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); Depression, Mental; Hope; Writing & Writers; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Optimism


TO GOD, by IVOR GURNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why have you made life so intolerable
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


TO RECOVERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Recovery, where art thou?
Last Line: Watches the dawn of day.
Subject(s): Blessings; Depression, Mental; Healing; Hope; Prayer; Waiting; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Cures; Optimism


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN THE DRAWING ROOMS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the drawing-rooms I saw scarce one that seemed at ease
Last Line: Own life for them.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Men; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


VICTIM OF HIMSELF, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He thought he saw a long way off the ocean
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Perception; Pride; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Self-esteem; Self-respect


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


WHIRLWINDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The deepest dregs of direst woe
Last Line: All whirlwinds.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Wind; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


WRITTEN DURING DEPRESSION: HOW TO BE HAPPY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be happy / a man must love death
Last Line: And why, my dear, I love you.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Future; Happiness; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight


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