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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DOCTOR, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG
First Line: You chose secure delight who so combined
Last Line: Ride in the memoried cell defying death.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors
First Line: You chose secure delight who so combined
Last Line: Ride in the memoried cell defying death.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors
You chose secure delight who so combined
With lusty fellowship bright solitude,
A clockless room where the untemporal mind
Attentive only to the common good
Searched the dark chemistry of being; sought
From the long vigil power against our pain
Counting each flickered indication caught,
Truth's cloudy hint, an incandescent gain.
You found this enviable recompense:
Remembrance, unextinguished by the grave,
Its flame implanted in our bone, our breath,
Burning in quickened hands. Here where you gave
To life more life, your gift will even hence
Ride in the memoried cell defying death.
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