Subway-streptococci Tear through the entrails Of Manhattan: the island Shivers with sudden ague, Trembles with intermittent fever; Its epidermis breaks with strange protuberances -- Wen and blister, furuncle and papulai -- (Can it be possible there is need to mention The Proud Flesh?) Who will isolate this devastating "Micro-organism of a genus of bacteria Grouped in long chains and dividing in one plane, Causing erysipelas, etc.," and restore To the embarrassed lady her school-girl-complexion That so intrigued an old roue named Hendrik Hudson At their first rendezvous, (Chaperoned by eighteen Old Salts!) On that long-gone September afternoon? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE TALENTED MAN by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED MY MOTHER by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT LYRICS AND EPICS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE COUNTRY CHURCH by ELIZABETH BOGART A MENDER OF CLOCKS by MARGARET E. BRUNER OUR FELLOW-WORSHIPPERS by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |