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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN HOSPITAL: 10. STAFF NURSE: NEW STYLE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue-eyed and bright of face but waning fast
Last Line: Draught, counsel, diagnosis, exhortation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses
First Line: Blue-eyed and bright of face but waning fast
Last Line: Draught, counsel, diagnosis, exhortation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses
Blue-eyed and bright of face, but waning fast
Into the stare of virginal decay,
I view her as she enters, day by day,
As a sweet sunset almost overpast.
Kindly and calm, patrician to the last,
Superbly falls her gown of sober gray,
And on her chignon's elegant array
The plainest cap is somehow touched with caste.
She talks Beethoven; frowns disapprobation
At Balzac's name, sighs it at 'poor George Sands';
Knows that she has exceeding pretty hands;
Speaks Latin with a right accentuation;
And gives at need (as one who understands)
Draught, counsel, diagnosis, exhortation.
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