fever quotes

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.4.

Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'ForAnnie'.

Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marvelling sweetly on her ills.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Chills and Fever,'Here Lies a Lady'.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'The ForceThatThrough the Green Fuse Drives the Flower'.

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came; Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'The HandThat Signed the Paper Felled a City'.