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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE AMBULANCE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Pick them up and shove them in Last Line: Hurry to the hospital! Subject(s): Ambulances | |||
Pick them up and shove them in, While the people stare and grin, While the curious people stare, Gathered here from everywhere, -- Frothing in a sudden fit, By a tumbling hammer hit, Cut and beaten in a fight, Fallen in a drunken plight, -- Pick them up and shove them in While the callous people grin; Sound the gong's imperious call, Hurry to the hospital! Pick them up and shove them in, -- Fallen into secret sin, Tumbled from ambition's height, Bruised in trade's unfeeling fight, Drunk with Mammon's mad excess, Ditched in utter hopelessness, Dazed with pleasure's giddy round, Knocked by passion to the ground, -- Come, unseen, swift ambulance, Take them in their stupid trance, Take them swiftly, one and all; Hurry to the Hospital! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AMBULANCE by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER AMBULANCE CHASING by JEFF DOLVEN YOUNGEST / PURPLEST BUM by STEVE EFFINGHAM FLOATING POEM: MANHATTAN, MIDDAY by LAURIE KUTCHINS HAD LINCOLN LIVED by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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