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William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James,...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Illness
Kaddish, Part I
by Allen Ginsberg
A Litany in Time of Plague
by Thomas Nashe
Afternoon at MacDowell
by Jane Kenyon
Against Elegies
by Marilyn Hacker
Bedside
by William Olsen
Breathing
by Josephine Dickinson
Christmas Away from Home
by Jane Kenyon
Cognitive Deficit Market
by Joshua Corey
E.W.
by Rosanna Warren
Evening
by Gail Mazur
Everyone Gasps with Anxiety
by Jeni Olin
Having it Out with Melancholy
by Jane Kenyon
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me
by John Rybicki
Hyper-
by David Baker
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
by W. H. Auden
Mastectomy
by Wanda Coleman
Phases
by Michael Redhill
Prayer for Sleep
by Cheryl Dumesnil
R.I.P., My Love
by Tory Dent
Sick
by Shel Silverstein
The Embrace
by Mark Doty
The Land of Counterpane
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Nurse
by Michael Blumenthal
The Sick Child
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Subalterns
by Thomas Hardy
The Transparent Man
by Anthony Hecht
The Visit
by Jason Shinder
Tubes
by Donald Hall
Units
by Albert Goldbarth
Visits to St. Elizabeths
by Elizabeth Bishop
Waking in the Blue
by Robert Lowell
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
by John Milton
Poems about Roses
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
Go, lovely rose!
by Edmund Waller
I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
O, Gather Me the Rose
by William Ernest Henley
See How the Roses Burn!
by Hafiz
The Book of the Dead Man (Your Hands)
by Marvin Bell
The White Rose
by John Boyle O'Reilly
This Living Hand [excerpt]
by Dean Young
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The Sick Rose

 
by William Blake

O Rose, thou art sick:
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.



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