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Best Poems about illness (120)

Discover the top poems about illness on The Poet's Place.

The Medicine Cabinet by Aria · 41 ♥

Third Day by Rory · 21 ♥

Mercury Rising by tenderhugo · 18 ♥

An Evening Lull by Walt Whitman · 12 ♥

Canto VII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 10 ♥

I watched her face to see which way by Emily Dickinson · 9 ♥

Three weeks passed since I had seen her by Emily Dickinson · 8 ♥

The Magnetic Lady to her Patient by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 7 ♥

Before I Got Out by emluz · 6 ♥

To Flush, my Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 6 ♥

Coming Down by Nico · 4 ♥

When the muffled world clears by stubborn_would_rather · 3 ♥

A Room That Breathes Disinfectant by Leo · 3 ♥

The public stall the cheap bleach smell by Jonah Shaw · 3 ♥

The Fever Break by Vamin · 2 ♥

Accumulation by Caleb B. · 2 ♥

Lingering Scent by Violet V. · 1 ♥

Coughs Between Breaths by restlessturn · 1 ♥

Measuring Heat by spareweather

The Weight of Admittance by intimatesound

Four days I didn't tell anyone by Eliomor

From Memory by Senamar

22 Days by ma3son

The First Time I Kneeled Like That by Gior

Standardized Weight by Znmin

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