I SIT within the long dim ward at night;
Around me silent beds or snores or groans, —
Ah! List that prayer with anguish In its tones…
The Hospital at Night
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The Doctor’s Wife
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THE night was dark and bitter cold.
The wind across the prairie swept,
While I in comforts warm enrolled
Snored softly on and soundly slept…
The Young Medic and the Old
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Deacon Jones was always ailing,
And his many aches bewailing,
And old Doctor Grampus failing…
Sir Medicus Challenged
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WHAT skilled physician owns the art
To heal the hurt done to my heart
By Daphne, mischief of Diana’s train,
Who wickedly doth joy her in my pain…
A Hospital Story
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WHITE faces, pained and thin,
Gathered new pain — as at some sight of slaughter-
And waiting nurses, with their cups of water,
Shrank, when they saw the bargeman ‘s little daughter…
Feminine Pharmacy
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THERE in the corner Pharmacy,
This lithesome lady lingers.
And potent pills and philters true
Are fashioned by her fingers…
Fin-de-Siecle Love Song
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GIVE me your hand and let me feel your pulse
And learn how fares your cardiac apparatus.
Whether it starts and beats uncertainly.
While Cupid aims his keen swift arrow at us…
Aesthetics in Medicine
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BY your leave, I desire just to call your attention,
And will barely suggest that I simply would mention
The fact that the science of beauty is rarely
Brought into physic, — at least not quite fairly!
Epitaph
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HERE lies a fool flat on his back,
The victim of a cancer quack;
Who lost his money and his life,
By plaster, caustic, and by knife.
The case was this — a pimple rose…
A Doctor’s Motto
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A DOCTOR, who, for want of skill.
Did sometimes cure — and sometimes kill;
Contrived at length, by many a puff…