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Subject: TUBERCULOSIS
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First Line: Mary ellen's eyelids grew purplish
Last Line: Trying to make death die
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Tuberculosis


CONSUMPTION, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consumption, fairest of death's craving brood!
Last Line: And, sighing, own the mournful picture just
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Tuberculosis


CONSUMPTION, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a sweetness in woman's decay
Last Line: To a purer world and a brighter day.
Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology)


CONSUMPTIVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, never more - my setting sun
Subject(s): Tuberculosis


CURE PORCHES, by MARGOT SCHILPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long before I was born, my aunt johanna caught
Subject(s): Aunts; Hospitals; Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology)


INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice upon the prairies
Last Line: As here they mourn for thee.
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Tuberculosis; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Consumption (pathology)


OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula
Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm.
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology)


ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death! Thou such a one hast smit
Last Line: If he be dead or flown away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Death - Children; Tuberculosis; Death - Babies; Consumption (pathology)


SANATORIUM, by LEIVICK HALPERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gate, open
Subject(s): Tuberculosis


THE CONSUMPTIVE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield
Last Line: Bring flowers ere I depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology)


THE CONSUMPTIVE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have traveled, I have traveled
Last Line: I am blest to die so soon.
Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology)


THE CONSUMPTIVE, by ROSALIND TRAVERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! I'm glad to be at home
Last Line: Of life, upon her tireless breast.
Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology)


THE CONSUMPTIVE GIRL; FROM A PICTURE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou may'st not raise her from that couch, kind nurse
Last Line: O'er pain, and sin, and death. Mourner, give thanks.
Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology)


THE GOD OF IGNORANCE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mexitli more regarded human life!
Last Line: And banish from our land this woful dread?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology)


THE IMMORALIST, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Samaden, the julier, tiefenkasten -- the raw egg
Last Line: Like the trench of a young couple crossing a lake.
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Man-woman Relationships; Murder; Tuberculosis; Male-female Relations; Consumption (pathology)


THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A winter evening at the cottage by the bay
Last Line: "I will write that we have departed for france, for italy."
Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Family Life; Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Tuberculosis; Relatives; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Consumption (pathology)


TO CONSUMPTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head
Last Line: Compose my decent head, and breathe my last.
Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology)


TUBERCULOSIS, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Not wishing to pronounce the taboo word
Subject(s): Healing; Tuberculosis


TUBERCULOSIS, by PAULA RANKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early phlegm is yellow
Last Line: Thin air and eglantine
Subject(s): Tuberculosis


TUBERCULOSIS, by VICTOR ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again the doeful fall is here
Subject(s): Physicians; Tuberculosis