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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MENTALLY DEPRESSED Matches Found: 37 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MUSICIAN'S WIFE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 |
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