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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 ♥

Canto VII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 31 ♥

An Evening Lull by Walt Whitman · 29 ♥

Third Day by Rory · 27 ♥

The Magnetic Lady to her Patient by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 27 ♥

I watched her face to see which way by Emily Dickinson · 27 ♥

Three weeks passed since I had seen her by Emily Dickinson · 27 ♥

To Flush, my Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 19 ♥

Mercury Rising by tenderhugo · 18 ♥

Four days I didn't tell anyone by Eliomor · 6 ♥

From Memory by Senamar · 6 ♥

22 Days by ma3son · 6 ♥

The First Time I Kneeled Like That by Gior · 6 ♥

Before I Got Out by emluz · 6 ♥

Octane by Vesper Crate · 6 ♥

Two days on the couch and the ceiling became by long_accumulating_pressu · 6 ♥

After four days of coughing by dsk_bus · 6 ♥

Rearview by jokecurdle · 6 ♥

The Squeeze by anxiousmove · 6 ♥

Sterile by anxiousmove · 6 ♥

There’s a thin layer of dust on the dresser top by quickmara · 6 ♥

Coming Down by Nico · 4 ♥

The Line by Mara · 4 ♥

Vowel Shift by Jules · 4 ♥

When the muffled world clears by stubborn_would_rather · 3 ♥

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