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Subject: NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE (1820-1910)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MONUMENT FOR SCUTARI, AFTER THE CRIMEAN WAR, SEPT. 1855, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cypresses of scutari
Last Line: But from the spirit's slavery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Scutari (lake), Europe


FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If on this verse of mine
Last Line: Take thee to joy when hand and heart are still!
Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the whitewashed walls
Last Line: Whereon the shadow of her life will lie.
Subject(s): Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)


LADY WITH THE LAMP (1820-1910), by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dead presided everywhere, colossi
Last Line: Which you'll love, even as you choke on it
Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Egypt; Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Nurses; Rats


SANTA FILOMENA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er a noble deed is wrought
Last Line: Saint filomena bore.
Variant Title(s): Florence Nightingale
Subject(s): Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)