There are 186 Poems about Health & Illness

‘Out, Out—’
By Robert Frost

(“O you mad, you superbly drunk!...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

A Cure at Porlock
By Amy Clampitt

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
By R. T. Smith

A Tree Planted
By Hilda Morley

A Visit
By Tom Sleigh

Alcohol
By Franz Wright

An Arbor
By Linda Gregerson

An Urban Convalescence
By James Merrill

Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Annunciation
By Shirley Kaufman

Arion
By David Wojahn

Arrows
By Tony Hoagland

At Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian

At the Beach
By Elizabeth Alexander

Atlantis
By Mark Doty

Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton

“A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about...”
By Claudia Rankine

Beauty
By Tony Hoagland

Before I got my eye put out – (336)
By Emily Dickinson

Belongings
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Bess
By William E. Stafford

Border Crossings
By David Wojahn

Breughel
By Michael Collier

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Burning
By Galway Kinnell

Cancer and Complaint at Midsummer
By C. Dale Young

Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song
By Michael S. Harper

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Count Down
By Robin Morgan

Covenant
By Alan Shapiro

crossing into canaan
By D.A. Powell

Day-Old Bargain
By Hilda Raz

Dear John, Dear Coltrane
By Michael S. Harper

Duke
By Bob Hicok

from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Eight Variations
By Weldon Kees

Ellen West
By Frank Bidart

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Equinox
By Elizabeth Alexander

Essay on Psychiatrists
By Robert Pinsky

Evans
By R. S. Thomas

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Faith
By David Baker

Faith Healing
By Philip Larkin

Fever 103°
By Sylvia Plath

Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas

Flight
By B. H. Fairchild

Fog
By Mark Doty

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

Glucose Self-Monitoring
By Katy Giebenhain

Grafik
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Greeting Verses
By A. R. Ammons

Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
By William Cowper

Headstone
By Ragan Fox

Her my body
By Bob Hicok

His Stillness
By Sharon Olds

Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne

Hysteria
By T. S. Eliot

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

In Celebration of My Uterus
By Anne Sexton

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

In the Theatre
By Dannie Abse

Insanity
By Calvin Thomas

Inside the Blues Whale
By Afaa Michael Weaver

Insomnia & So On
By Malachi Black

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

It Didn’t Begin with Horned Owls
Hooting at Noon
By Kevin Stein

It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Large Intestine
By Anna Swir

Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali

Letters from an Institution
By Michael Ryan

Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Like a Scarf
By James Tate

Limbo: Altered States
By Mary Karr

Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
By Carolyn Kizer

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Living
By C. D. Wright

Man
By George Herbert

Matinee
By Patrick Phillips

Minor Litany
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Monet Refuses the Operation
By Lisel Mueller

Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley

More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright

Morning After
By Langston Hughes

Mortal Sorrows
By Rodney Jones

Music Swims Back to Me
By Anne Sexton

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Now
By Hilda Raz

Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
By Stanley Plumly

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Old Couple
By Charles Simic

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
By Donald Justice

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
By William Wordsworth

Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem
By Yvonne Zipter

Pacemaker
By W. D. Snodgrass

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Pauline Is Falling
By Jean Nordhaus

Pediatrics
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath

Praise
By Hilda Morley

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Robinson at Home
By Weldon Kees

Scree
By Alan Shapiro

Seizure
By Lynn Emanuel

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
By William Wordsworth

Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman

Song & Error
By Averill Curdy

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner
By Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnet XXI: In that time when it seemed the simple weight
By Paul Engle

Sonnet XXII: Her thin cheeks narrowed by November cold
By Paul Engle

Sonnet XXII: To Cyriack Skinner
By John Milton

Sonnet: On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
By Charlotte Smith

Spider Tumor
By Michael Collier

St Vincent’s
By W. S. Merwin

Stalin's Library Card
By David Wojahn

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Sun and Moon
By Jane Kenyon

Surgeons must be very careful (156)
By Emily Dickinson

Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty

Tarantula, or The Dance of Death
By Anthony Hecht

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov

The Beach at Sunset
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Breathing Space
By Frederick Morgan

The Chocolate Infection
By G. E. Murray

The Crystal Lithium
By James Schuyler

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People
By David Ferry

The heart asks pleasure first
By Emily Dickinson

The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith

The King’s Question
By Brian Culhane

The Land of Counterpane
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

The Man with Night Sweats
By Thom Gunn

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Ship Pounding
By Donald Hall

from The Spleen
By Matthew Green

The Sympathizers
By Josephine Miles

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart

The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home
By Linda Gregerson

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Third Avenue in Sunlight
By Anthony Hecht

Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
By Carolyn Kizer

To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
By Hartley Coleridge

To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
By Henry David Thoreau

To Mary
By William Cowper

To Myself
By Franz Wright

Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel

Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur
By George Moses Horton

Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn

Tulips
By Sylvia Plath

Veteran’s Hospital
By Ben Belitt

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

Visits to St. Elizabeths
By Elizabeth Bishop

wax job
By Charles Bukowski

x-pug
By Charles Bukowski

Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth

Year’s End
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

You and Me and Veronica Lake
By Colleen J. McElroy

You were like the young fig tree
By Miguel Hernández

[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
By D.A. Powell