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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know you only by your tears
Last Line: I know you only by your tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War


A HOSPITAL GOOD-MORNING, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis five of the clock and the birds are waking
Last Line: The cheery, sweet hospital nurse.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Drugs, Prescription


A TERRIBLE INFANT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recollect a nurse call'd ann
Last Line: "-- and that's my earliest recollection."
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Babies; Nurses; Women; Infants


ABOUT NURSING, by MICHAEL KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the secrets people tell me
Last Line: I'm in it for the secrets
Subject(s): Nurses


ADMISSION, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her eyes would blur %so she couldn't see
Last Line: Enter deeper %enter
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


ADMISSION, CHILDREN'S UNIT (1), by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the story of st. Lawrence that repelled me
Last Line: It took four of us to pry him from his mother's arms
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses


ADMISSION, CHILDREN'S UNIT (2), by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Later, I'd look up the story a friend told me years ago
Last Line: It took four of us to pry the boy from his mother's arms
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses


AGE GARDEN, by KAREN HOWLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: A boy's head butters the tops of petals
Last Line: Under the white daisies of his hair
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


ANGEL FROM PRATT STREET, by JEANNE BEALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knees worn through like any other kid's
Last Line: Solitary angel of glass
Subject(s): Nurses


ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER CUSTOMER, by ELLEN SHAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Omni is lying on his back, as inert as possible without
Last Line: Setting his chin at a proud angle. Then I go back to my muscle
Subject(s): Nurses


ARITHMETIC OF NURSES, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: S-s-s, s-s-s, s-s-s %bennie smith is trying to speak
Last Line: And old, abandoned men
Subject(s): Nurses


ARMY NURSES, VIETNAM, 1966, by KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Too exhausted to swat the flies
Last Line: The fine red dust of vietnam coats her helmet, her hands
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


ARRIVAL, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Track this on radar: dark-haired girl in heels
Last Line: You must try %and pass through
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


ASTRONOMY AND NURSING, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We passed the cage, watched the minimal
Last Line: With your own laser key
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SHIFT, by ALYSON KENNEDY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I am able to breathe
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


AUTOPSY NO. 24722, by SANDRA BISHOP EBNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead february 4th. He was sixty-five. That's young, isn't it?
Last Line: Before I kneel down to hold her
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness


BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze
Last Line: Bad dreams. Some days I avoid my reflection in store %windows. I just don't want anyone to loot at m
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor And Laborers; Nurses; Sickness


BACK RUB, by DEBRA SANDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mrs. Joseph died today
Last Line: I'll be there - I'm lucky %I'm afraid
Subject(s): Nurses


BATAAN ANGELS, by ELIZABETH KEOUGH MCDONALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: After they survived bataan
Last Line: They were the greatest show on earth
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


BEA'S LAST VACATION, by MURIEL MURCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's just a tonsillectomy
Last Line: I am your mother. %april 1991 %all my love, mum
Subject(s): Nurses


BEFORE HEART SURGERY, by KELLY SIEVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day I watch them enter the body
Last Line: Deep in the belly?
Subject(s): Nurses


BETWEEN ROUNDS, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: That experimental chemo - I knew
Last Line: Opened like a wet newborn - that tender %surprised at having passed through a wall
Subject(s): Nurses


BETWEEN THE HEARTBEATS, by KELLY SIEVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will I dream? She asks, before I push
Last Line: Over its tangled knot
Subject(s): Nurses


BLUE LACE SOCKS, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am one of three nurses who work on the child
Last Line: And their echo drowns the copter's blades
Subject(s): Nurses


BODY FLUTE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go on loving the flesh
Last Line: The silver stops of your eyelids
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


BODY OF KNOWLEDGE: REMEMBERING DIPLOMA SCHOOLS , 1976, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where have I put the silver
Last Line: To the heart, wanted us to remember
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


BOOK OF GOD, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thinking tonight of the three times
Last Line: On each page she drew pictures she couldn't talk about [or, feet tucked under her, completing her bo
Subject(s): Nurses


BREATH, by KELLY SIEVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the old days we taped a cotton ball
Last Line: I follow it, trying to feel %closer %to my life
Subject(s): Nurses


BREATHLESS, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear trent, today I was remembering the clay faces of
Last Line: Sinful to rescue angels
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


BRIDGE, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cat cries, dog barks; on a hill a starling
Last Line: To keep the pulsing bridge afloat
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


BURN, by HANNE DINA BERNSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: His face sooty and distended
Last Line: He begins to brush his teeth
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


BURNT-OUT OFFERINGS, by SANDRA SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We move like robots in our scorched skins
Last Line: As if it never mattered
Subject(s): Nurses


BUTTERFLY, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thing I keep thinking is these young men
Last Line: The place where brown masks %protect the unbeautiful
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Nurses; Women


CALL AND RESPONSE, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: So this is the smell of trouble
Last Line: Crazy woman, woman without a brain
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


CAREER DAY, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stood, starched white
Last Line: Pianissimo, pale through hospital halls
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


CATS, by GEORGIANA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old people and cats seem to go together well
Last Line: I doubt I can prove this, but I keep two on hand, just in case
Subject(s): Nurses


CHANGE OF SHIFT, by MIRIAM BRUNING PAYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day staff hurries in
Last Line: Sweet alarm %for the change of shift
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


CHARLIE'S KOAN, by PATRICIA MAHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seventy-four pounds charlie, you've lost some
Last Line: He is smiling
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


CHEMO, by JANET BERNICHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the waiting room- %the contradiction of healthy
Last Line: I can adjust my wig %in its reflection
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


CHRISTMAS TIME, by GEORGIANA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always! %I mean every house
Last Line: And did I mention cookies?
Subject(s): Nurses


CODE BLUE, by JANET BERNICHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The center of strangers %oxygen death masked
Last Line: Can you hear me? %daddy?
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


COLOR OF PROTOCOL, by JEANNE BEALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's difficult to reconstruct
Last Line: Begs canned peaches and a t-bone
Subject(s): Nurses


CONVERSATION WITH WENDY, by AMY HADDAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We dream %our hair is long
Last Line: I keep it cropped close to my head
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


COUNTING THE CHILDREN, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five kids round up fiddler crabs into blue
Last Line: There's nothing but water's nothing sound
Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Nurses; Seashore; Water


COVERT TO ZERO, by GERI ROSENZWEIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the time I got there she had thrown
Last Line: On the end of the bed
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the night you told me
Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses


CURANDERA, by DANA SHUSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A magnet seeking iron, my soul sought her source
Last Line: I am the healer. %the magic is mine
Subject(s): Nurses


DAFFODIL DAYS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bought the daffodils
Last Line: Do not bloom for me, I ask, %do not bloom
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


DANCE, by ANDREA LEE BELIVEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: To partner with a stranger
Last Line: Matching the technical tones
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


DANNY BOY, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your parents lean over you like aspen trees
Last Line: How good it is to eat
Subject(s): Nurses


DAR A LUZ, by KIRSTIN BORTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was an indescribable energy in the room
Last Line: What a beautiful light you have brought into this world
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


DARK LINES AND WORDS, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paint me' %said the patient
Last Line: I will show %your true colors'
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


DEAD DOG DAYS, by NINA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was an amazing dog, very strong, like me. I'm built like
Last Line: Together when I die. Well, maybe. I'm a fighter, nothing's going to stop me
Subject(s): Nurses


DEHISCENCE, by AMY HADDAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have come unstitched
Last Line: To be caught in the illusion of your wholeness
Subject(s): Nurses


DEMONSTRATION, by DAWN RAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Threads of blood arc
Last Line: That it doesn't matter?
Subject(s): Nurses


DIARY OF A PRISONER'S NURSE, MISSISSIPPI, 1972, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We had her open into the uterus
Last Line: The baby screamed at birth
Subject(s): Nurses


DOMESTIC LIFE: NURSE AND POET, by STEPHEN DALE COREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We talk tonight as if tomorrow will be the same
Last Line: The faults in the deepest beds of rock
Subject(s): Nurses; Schools


DOPPELGANGER, by ANNE WEBSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm here to tell you it's not that easy being
Last Line: Figures in the chart, numbers in the red zone
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


DOWN THE HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, by HANNE DINA BERNSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hesitant wave of a hand
Last Line: Takes fifteen minutes %or more
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


EDITH CAVELL, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came
Last Line: It is victory speaks her name.
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War


EDITH CAVELL, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Room 'mid the martyrs for a deathless name!
Last Line: Has sealed the savage hohenzollerns' doom!
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War


EDITH CAVELL, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world hath its own dead; great motions start
Last Line: And beautifies the world that saw it die!
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I - Casualties


EMPTY SWING, by LIANNE ELIZABETH MERCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You still the swing
Last Line: Orchid sinking in still wind
Subject(s): Nurses


EURYCLEIA, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trek back home with the scars
Last Line: Some identify and reveal-some disguise
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


EURYDICE IN THE STATE HOSPITAL LAUNDRY, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sheets boil up fresh in bluing
Last Line: The pill in my cheek
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


EUTHANASIA, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two milligrams of morphine in the iv. He just went to sleep, she said
Last Line: She was a good nurse. I tell you the truth. %no problem, she said
Subject(s): Nurses


EVERY DAY, THE PREGNANT TEENAGERS, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Assemble at my desk, backpacks
Last Line: The places you'll go, the places you'll go!
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


FEATHER AND CLAW, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birds fly in and out
Last Line: I beg aphasic %to leave something
Subject(s): Nurses


FIRST HOUR, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This will never happen to me
Last Line: My shaky, learning hands
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


FIRST NIGHT DUTY - 1950, by JANE FARRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here!' cele pokes the cold flashlight
Last Line: In the rise and fall of a midnight snore
Subject(s): Nurses


FIRST RAINS OF APRIL: 1. THE HUG, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday %for the first time
Last Line: I didn't want to let her go
Subject(s): Nurses


FIRST RAINS OF APRIL: 2. SHE WAS IN HOSPITAL, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: She doesn't really %believe them
Subject(s): Nurses


FIRST RAINS OF APRIL: 3. BARELY BREATHING, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dying %in the afternoon
Last Line: As she loosens her grip %on my hand
Subject(s): Nurses


FIRST RAINS OF APRIL: 4. THE FIRST RAINS OF APRIL, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We didn't talk %she wasn't able to anymore
Last Line: That it had rained %at father's funeral
Subject(s): Nurses


FIRST RAINS OF APRIL: 5. IN A HOSPITAL SIDE ROOM, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was tired %and I was selfish
Last Line: I had to simply %let her go
Subject(s): Nurses


FORGERY, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: #name?
Last Line: With the gorgeous, ran with the anonymous, ran with cold dark blood
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


FORGET-ME-NOTS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stork stories notwithstanding, close watching
Last Line: With powder sieving down on everything
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


FOUR MEN, SITTING, by SCOTT CHISHOLM LAMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pause for a moment %and look up
Last Line: We are five men, sitting %with you
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


GIFT, by SHIRLEY KOBAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bottle is upended
Last Line: What nurse has never needed healing?
Subject(s): Nurses


GLORIA, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The photograph in this morning's chronicle
Last Line: Asked how much damage it would take to really satisfy me
Subject(s): Nurses


GOD AND THE TELEPHONE, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why don't you come
Last Line: A flesh and blood person. %that's you
Subject(s): Nurses


GOOD-BYE, by ALICE CAPSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stroked your arm slowly from shoulder to wrist
Last Line: This I had to do
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


GOOSEBERRIES, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the first time in weeks, staying up all night on suicide watch
Last Line: Such a long time since I've tasted champagne!
Subject(s): Nurses


HANDS BECKONING, by RICHARD YAKIMO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I accept his hand in mine, discretely assess the warmth of the
Last Line: Pole instead of my cold stethoscope
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


HOME VISITS, by PAULA SERGI    Poem Source                    
First Line: No wonder I paused at their doorsteps
Last Line: Little cloud-tufts of hair, haloes for the almost dead
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their pollen cleansed the air
Last Line: That wove such a spell
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


HOSPITAL PARKING GARAGE, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is just my father's age
Last Line: The key. Everywhere the world is disappearing
Subject(s): Nurses


HOW I'M ABLE TO LOVE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm stunned by death's absence
Last Line: The familiar dead and the dead yet to be born
Subject(s): Death; Love; Medicine; Nurses


I COULDN'T TOUCH THE WALL, by ELLEN DIDERICH ZIMMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sisters, I've come to the wall
Last Line: Welcome home, my sisters!
Subject(s): Nurses


I DRIVE IN THE LANE, by GEORGIANA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: As I drive back up the lane, the calf is on its feet
Subject(s): Nurses


IF YOUR NURSE IS CROSS OR MEAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And you find her kinder
Subject(s): Nurses


IN COMMON DARKNESS, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the school for deaf-blind children
Last Line: A marvelously pleasant sensation
Subject(s): Nurses


IN HOSPITAL: 10. STAFF NURSE: NEW STYLE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         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


IN HOSPITAL: 26. ANTEROTICS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughs the happy april morn
Last Line: O, the spring -- the spring -- the spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses; Spring


IN HOSPITAL: 8. STAFF-NURSE: OLD STYLE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greater masters of the commonplace
Last Line: They say 'the chief' himself is half-afraid of her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses


IN HOSPITAL: 9. LADY-PROBATIONER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some three, or five, or seven, and thirty years
Last Line: Somehow, I rather think she has a history.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Nurses


IN THE HOSPITAL IT'S TWO O'CLOCK, by KJELL ESPMARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enter the room, double
Last Line: Its' denied him
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Sickness


IN THE OR, by ROBIN CHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live %here behind our masks, here, being ourselves
Last Line: You will see us: our essence, our nature, our love
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


IN THE SOLARIUM, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These winter plants remind me
Last Line: As soon as she had read them
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


INSTRUCTING A NEW MOTHER, by DAWN RAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a little barracuda
Last Line: The efficient nurse who contaminated nothing
Subject(s): Nurses


IT WAS MY FIRST NURSING JOB, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: And I was stupid in it. I thought a doctor would not be unkind
Last Line: It was my first job %and I was lost in it
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Medicine; Nurses


JAPANESE WOMAN, by LORNA TALLENT KIDWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Decorously she pushed his little hands aside
Last Line: And brighter seemed her day.
Subject(s): Japan; Nurses; Japanese


JOB DESCRIPTION, by ALICIA PRIEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Care for mr. Crystal
Last Line: Kill %the lights
Subject(s): Nurses


JUSTANURSE, by CHRISTINE GRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was 5 my mother ('I'm-turning-30
Last Line: So for christmas I posed by the tree, %...'justanurse'
Subject(s): Nurses


LA MUERTE, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old mother death sits %down beside me
Last Line: I am ready to learn
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


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


LEARNING HOW THE BONES MOVE, by CAROL BRENDSEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miss mantella introduced us properly to her bones
Last Line: And floating rib of bone
Subject(s): Nurses


LIKE A NIGHT WATCHMAN, by ALYSON KENNEDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a night watchman composed by vigilance
Last Line: Revealing your journey, my journey
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


LITANY OF DOLORES, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ay, que bonita viene %chimes from the church across the street
Last Line: And stop when we reach the blank pages
Subject(s): Nurses


LONG DISTANCE CALL, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Learned the value tuesday %of words
Last Line: Finally renewed in a long distance call
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


LONG HOSPITAL STAY, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the end of the corridor
Last Line: To protect his dreams
Subject(s): Nurses


LONG-TERM COMPANION, by JESSICA SHRADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not a word in honor of the long-term companion
Last Line: More important, you were the love of his death
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


LULLABY, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are holding the telephone
Last Line: She died rocking a baby to sleep
Subject(s): Nurses


MALE NURSE WASHING A NUN, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today %he had washed a nun
Last Line: Before pulling himself together %and leaving
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


MALICE OF INNOCENCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glimpsed world, halfway through the film
Last Line: Details of agony carefully into the night report
Subject(s): Nurses


MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too
Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses


MARISOL, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I quit my nursing job
Last Line: Back straight, head high, %everyone calling
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


MEDICINE FROM THE WOOD, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wooed by juniper berries
Last Line: And the kiss of a mayfly
Subject(s): Nurses


MERCY AND HEMLOCK, by JANET BERNICHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's 7:55. %at 8 o'clock, comfortable
Last Line: In minutes %in minutes
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


MIDWIFE, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I seem to wait
Last Line: I walk out across the fields of the planets %into the spaces between the furthest stars
Subject(s): Birth; Nurses


MIRANDA'S DREAM, by NINA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have this dream - like a nightmare it comes to me. My
Last Line: Now he's the one who's dead. Where is his picture? I have to show you
Subject(s): Nurses


MISCARRIAGE: THE NURSE SPEAKS TO THE BABY, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are going back to the dirty
Last Line: Vine of warm ground %born to suffer loss
Subject(s): Babies; Death; Loss; Medicine; Nurses


MISS SMITH, by PATRICIA MAHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have only good memories
Last Line: When I'm ready to fly %I will
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


MR. CRAIG AND HIS WIFE, by DAWN RAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Apology to the dying woman
Last Line: By uncomfortable strangers
Subject(s): Nurses


MR. DEATH, by R. ERIC DOERFLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Death came to sit with me
Last Line: I was glad he stopped by
Subject(s): Nurses


NATCHAUG HOSPITAL BLUES [CHILDREN'S UNIT BLUES], by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It ends with louis armstrong banned from the children's ward
Last Line: Hector, blues come like a thief, hold fast to what you heard
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NEGATIVE CONDITIONING, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first it was just the needles she hated
Last Line: Each time %a rehearsal
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NEONATAL ICU, by LEIGH WILKERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surely there are poems hidden here. Surely
Last Line: In rafters high above the factory floor
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NICU, by DANA SHUSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dying babies need %warmth %motion %song
Last Line: Why am I still %rocking %singing?
Subject(s): Nurses


NIGHT NURSE, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angel, %hold their hands while I hurry
Last Line: All these lives flying from us
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


NIGHT NURSE GOES HER ROUND, by JOHN HENRY GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Droop under doves' wings silent, breathing shapes
Subject(s): Nurses; Sickness


NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor
Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses


NIGHT SHIFT, by JANE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How much longer?' the mother asked %and we told her
Last Line: When we turned the monitor off
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NIGHT WALKER, by LIANNE ELIZABETH MERCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I click the lock of the psychiatric intensive care unit, leave
Last Line: Stalking hope. The night licks its fur and yawns, but its %eyes never close
Subject(s): Nurses


NIGHTINGALE IN THE EAST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a dark lonely night on the crimea's dread shore
Last Line: One of heaven's best gifts is miss nightingale
Subject(s): Death;love;nurses;soldiers; "dead, The;


NOT MINE, by SCOTT CHISHOLM LAMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My colleagues %tell me of the ones
Last Line: I don't feel %lucky
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT SL 1, IDAHO FALLS, 1961, by JUDITH VOLLMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father remembers a nurse
Last Line: She knows what she is doing. %she knows what she has to do
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nuclear Accidents; Nurses


NURSE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old man who can undress before you
Last Line: Of your respect to his side
Subject(s): Aging; Nurses


NURSE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people say / that if you sit / alone in the nursery / with no lamp lit
Last Line: Might be you.
Subject(s): Nurses


NURSE EDITH CAVELL; TWO O'CLOCK, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 12, 1915, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To her accustomed eyes
Last Line: Announced that day she met the immortal dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Death; Nurses; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


NURSE IN THE TERRIBLE DOORWAY, by ERIC ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Calls my name, a clipboard
Last Line: But not yet %cured, never cured
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness


NURSE'S FAREWELL, by PAMELA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Calling %my hands guided my nurse's
Last Line: And compassion is on the list of endangered species
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NURSE'S JOB, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nurse's job is to make it better %whatever it is
Last Line: This nurse is doing her job
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NURSE'S POCKETS, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When patients are told they're dying
Last Line: Full of such ordinary things
Subject(s): Nurses


NURSE'S TASK, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I pluck the suture
Last Line: The one that escapes
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


NURSES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There isn't anythin' that's worse
Last Line: They're awful ignerunt of boys!
Subject(s): Boys; Child Care; Children; Nurses; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood


NURSING 101: PEDIATRIC ROTATION, by ANDREA VLAHAKIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was %a student and he %was three
Last Line: My weariness %overgrows in
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


NURSING STATION, by MELODY GOETZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abe doesn't want to be alone; we sit in the dark, wait for the nurse to come
Last Line: Scent, & she is gone, down the lighted hallway as if she never existed, as if %she never really came
Subject(s): Nurses


OBJECT OF DESIRE, by JANET BERNICHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: How smoothly the cancer seduces the body
Last Line: How smoothly the body seduces the mind
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


OLD MAN IN BEDCLOTHES, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe you think no one is under these blankets
Last Line: Creaking out to sea. Gone, like a window %opening in august
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


OLDIES, by RICHARD CALLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her leg is puffed up
Last Line: Keeps me down for long
Subject(s): Nurses


ON SWITCHING FROM NURSING TO ENGLISH, by PAULA SERGI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Losing the white nursing shoes was easy
Last Line: Where am I headed with a longer, %misspelled resume?
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


ONE, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: We built walls nobody could get through
Last Line: I could hear his mother calling him
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


ONE-ON-ONE WITH DYLAN THOMAS, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm taking my break outside the detox unit
Last Line: All right damn it, force us to choose
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


OTHER, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I watched them clip away the bandages
Last Line: Alone, a changed man, one way or another
Subject(s): Nurses


PEDIATRIC NURSE OVER TIME, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now finally-time
Last Line: Your big brother offered animal cookies
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


PICK UP THE SPOON, by GEOFFREY BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You flicker %like a faulty striplight
Last Line: Sometimes, %missing a beat
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


POLITICS OF DISEASE, by ELIZABETH KEOUGH MCDONALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She flew to canada from africa-sick. Cough and fever
Last Line: I've looked out enough windows to know what passes by, %enters
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


PORT-A-CATH, by AMY HADDAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Button made of skin
Last Line: Shining at dinner parties
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


PORTRAIT, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your turn from health to illness
Last Line: The padded table, cleared, holds %the imprint of lifted plates
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


POURING IT DOWN, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweetheart, will you take
Last Line: But down the john
Subject(s): Nurses


PRE-OP, by GERI ROSENZWEIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Smocked in blue, nurses flock % to my body as the snows
Last Line: In all the tattered gardens %it is spring
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


PREMATURE, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am assigned %to bring the infant
Last Line: I know the formalities, %the courtesies of the morgue
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


PROMISES, by SANDRA SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched an old nurse try to die last night
Last Line: Both agonizing over promises made, seldom kept
Subject(s): Nurses


QUADRIPLEGIC: THE BATH, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You'll feel like %new,' I said, keeping things
Last Line: And began to bathe him
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Nurses; Physical Disabilities


RAIMENT, by CAROL BRENDSEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every night I watch women try to slip out
Last Line: Something the cloistered wear in cold stone churches
Subject(s): Nurses


REDEMPTION AT THE WOMEN'S CENTER, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: She swings her legs and kicks the table hard
Last Line: Humming a tune she can't quite place
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


REHAB NURSING, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is where my heart is, over here
Last Line: In the cinder path with you
Subject(s): Nurses


RHYTHMS, by BETHANY SCHROEDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Karl says we flatter ourselves
Last Line: We will not let go gracefully back to god
Subject(s): Nurses


RICKY T AND HIS COCKATOO, by NINA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bye, bye,' she hawked. 'bye, bye!' ricky t introduced
Last Line: Soon enough I heard her yell, 'get back here! Get back here!'
Subject(s): Nurses


RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And stares %at the doctor
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness


ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, 1965, by KELLY SIEVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hot tunnels wound beneath the ground
Last Line: Hiding our hot %and steaming hearts
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Nurses; Women


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 14. MRS. CARE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fortune on me shed her ray
Last Line: While the nurse her snuff is taking.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fortune; Loss; Nurses; Nightmares


ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Early morning over rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning
Last Line: And the trains that go from rouen at the end of the day.
Subject(s): Nurses; Rouen, France; Women; World War I; First World War


RUBBING HER BACK AT THE NURSING HOME, by MAUREEN TOLMAN FLANNERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ridge road of her spine
Last Line: And the daily toil of it %bent her to a hay hook
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


RX FOR NURSES: BRAG!, by KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am alumnus of the year from schools I've never heard of
Last Line: If there were nurse of the millennium, %it would be me
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SAILOR EXPLAINS KISSING THE NURSE, by KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't care who she was, this cloud of white
Last Line: Could even whir through the camera
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the school the kids swat about
Last Line: Higher and higher to pump at dreams, %airy as fifty snowflakes
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SECRETS, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: A braid of girls in white sleeves stood
Last Line: Was there something I was supposed to do?
Subject(s): Nurses


SEPTEMBER, by JANE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I've decided to stop looking
Last Line: That's where I'd want any poem to end
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SHAPE OF THE HUMAN SPINE, by SANDRA BISHOP EBNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The patient picks up %a wrench from the table
Last Line: I did a good job tightening the bolts %on her wheelchair. I think
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SHIFTS, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm two months out of nursing school when mattie says
Last Line: And that's how shocking %my first one was
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SHOTS, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three nurses to hold him, this four-year-old who kicks me
Last Line: Whether the fruit is ripe or not
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SIXTEEN STANDING HOURS, by FAITH VROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I looked into the face of life and death
Last Line: Then I'll look you in the eye
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SNOWBOUND, by VENETA MASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: So we are homebound
Last Line: This morning %in his chair
Subject(s): Nurses


SOUNDS AT NIGHT: 1960, by ADELE GERMAINE SARRAZIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chimes of the chapel clock striking one
Last Line: The bell of the nearby church, summoning worshippers %to early mass
Subject(s): Nurses


SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes
Last Line: They yield the field
Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries


SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass
Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again
Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries


STANDING THERE, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our history isn't an album of healers
Last Line: And run-no matter how close %the lightning gouged
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


STETHOSCOPE, by SHIRLEY KOBAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: You frighten us %with your hollowed cheeks
Last Line: Contact with skin to skin, %breath to breath
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


STORY, by RICHARD CALLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a gray morning
Last Line: Sink back forever into the room
Subject(s): Nurses


STORY OF MR. PRESIDENT, by NINA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I worked at the county hospital there was this nurse who
Last Line: Dent! Mr. President!' as if she were at some white house press %conference
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


STUFF I LEARNED IN NURSING SCHOOL, by ANNE WEBSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To say all the forbidden words
Last Line: Get through that terrible time
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SUNDAY, by JANET BERNICHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Working double shift in the emergency room
Last Line: If he will let that bird %find a way out
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


SUNDAY MORNING, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the hospital's fifth floor
Last Line: And give up my heart to their sky
Subject(s): Nurses


SWAN BY THE MALL, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The swan's white bulk, crumbled like a corrugated box
Last Line: Drawing itself from death's shrunken [or, sunken] belly into the room?
Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Medicine; Nurses; Swans


TEACHER, by HILARIE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was twenty-six the first time I held
Last Line: And say, let's talk about your heart
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


TEN ITEMS OR LESS, by AMY HADDAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can spot them %even in the checkout line
Last Line: As they sort coupons %for cereal or canned tomatoes
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


TERMINAL NURSE: REFLECTIONS ON NEW MILLENNIUM NURSING, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen the enemy
Last Line: I hear-I hear baby cries of un-napping %-session disconnected
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


TET, VIETNAM 1968, by PAULINE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A litter dropped onto sawhorses
Last Line: Audible steady drips of blood %settle on my boots
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


TETANUS SHOT, by WILLIAM DORESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My godson's cut finger glistens
Last Line: When viewed from an open grave
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Pain


THALLIUM SCAN, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vivid shades of the scintillation camera
Last Line: Illuminating the darkness, where we live
Subject(s): Nurses


THE BOOK OF GOD, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thinking tonight of the three times
Subject(s): Nurses


THE DAY NURSE, by JULIA GRACE WALES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Freshness of morning in the air that flows
Last Line: Did lowly service unto human kind?
Subject(s): Nurses


THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them
Last Line: Braver than the brave?
Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War


THE HEALING PROFESSION, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nurses and orderlies from the hospital
Last Line: And zero calorie sugar has been stirred
Subject(s): Nurses


THE HOSPITAL NURSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I know when I am dead?'
Last Line: "and for thy love to worship thee."
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Illness


THE MALICE OF INNOCENCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glimpsed world, halfway through the film
Subject(s): Nurses


THE MERCIFUL HAND, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your fine white hand is heaven's gift
Last Line: The love-alliance of mankind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Nurses; World War I; First World War


THE NURSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Such innocent companionship
Last Line: Within is only innocence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Innocence; Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Praise; Childhood; Work; Workers


THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hush! Pretty darling, hush! -- bye, bye, bye, bye
Last Line: And give us safe deliv'ry from our terrors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza
Subject(s): Babies; Charity; Newspapers; Nurses; Infants; Philanthropy; Journalism; Journalists


THE RED CROSS NURSE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One summer day, gleaming in memory
Subject(s): World War I; Red Cross; Nurses; First World War


THE RED CROSS NURSE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The battle-smoke still fouled the day
Last Line: A crimson cross is on her breast!
Subject(s): Nurses; World War I - Casualties


THE RED CROSS NURSES, by THOMAS LANSING MASSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out where the line of battle cleaves
Last Line: The red cross nurses stand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masson, Tom
Subject(s): Nurses; Red Cross; World War I; First World War


THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces
Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Variant Title(s): The Dresser
Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips


THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE MOMENT OF DEATH, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I work nights, and he was awake
Last Line: It was the sound of my own blood
Subject(s): Death; Nurses


THIN MARGIN, by CAROL BATTAGLIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The only thing %that separates us
Last Line: Is that I have not %yet been diagnosed
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


THIS HAPPENED, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The intern and I begin our rounds
Last Line: And be the same
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


THOUGHTS ON V-TACH, by MITZI HIGLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O favorite heart! %irritable heart
Last Line: Clean %and clear away
Subject(s): Nurses


TO BE A NURSE, by MARY FIELDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up every morning
Last Line: The rewards are small and few- %but that's what it is, to be a nurse
Subject(s): Nurses


TO BE A NURSE, by A. H. LAWRENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To be a nurse is / to walk with god
Last Line: Is working through you!
Subject(s): Nurses


TOURNIQUET, by SHIRLEY KOBAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: She showed her arms
Last Line: Deep within my pocket
Subject(s): Nurses


TWENTY-FOUR WEEK PREEMIE, CHANGE OF SHIFT, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're running out of o2
Last Line: How can people abandon each other?
Subject(s): Birth; Labor And Laborers; Nurses


UNTIL THE DAWN, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lonely grave hard by the prison wall
Last Line: Of earth and sorrow pale before its light.
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Mourning; Nurses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement


VIETNAM CANON, by DANA SHUSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Counting pulses and marking measures, she notes
Last Line: But men and wars do have a way %of mixing things up
Subject(s): Nurses


WATER STORY, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the living sound of my plant when I water it
Last Line: I carry this story on my white shoes
Subject(s): Birth; Life; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Water


WHAT ABEL SAYS, by PATRICIA MAHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abel talks in stories
Last Line: Nor can I, yet
Subject(s): Nurses


WHAT NURSES DO BEST, by MARLENE CESAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm at the nursing station concentrating on what nurses do best
Last Line: And yet so far
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


WHAT NURSES DO ON THEIR DAY OFF, by JO-ANNE ROWLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A friend said %a day off is just that
Last Line: I never liked her much anyway
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


WHAT NURSES DO: THE MARRIAGE OF SUFFERING AND HEALING, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Compared to the day I had to sit with a mother
Last Line: For a long time after
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


WHAT THE NURSE LIKES, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like looking into patients' ears
Last Line: When I turn their way
Subject(s): Caregivers; Nurses


WHAT THOMAS WANTED, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the air, our meadow must have seemed the one safe place
Last Line: I laughed, so he kept on: 'the balloon was like a circus without %noise'
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


WHAT WAS LEFT OF SUMMER, by GERI ROSENZWEIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: With nothing in my mouth but the salt of old times
Last Line: Stunned as a child's at how suddenly the story ends
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


WHITE FLAME BEFORE THE LONG BLACK WALL, by MADELEINE MYSKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miles from this wakefulness, the long black wall keeps naming the dead
Last Line: White flame before the long black wall that keeps naming, naming the dead
Subject(s): Nurses


WHO OWNS THE LIBRETTO?, by JUDY SCHAEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They browsed quickly through
Last Line: What the doctors told
Subject(s): Nurses


WHY NOT ME?, by JANET BERNICHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I rolled my eyes and said in a stage whisper
Last Line: Then I leaned my head against the glass and closed my eyes
Subject(s): Nurses


WHY WE WORE WHITE, by PATRICIA MAHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a young girl %I watched my grandmother dress
Last Line: To render light %from the dark
Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses


WORKING WHILE OTHERS SLEEP, by ALICIA PRIEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love with a secret joy to watch
Last Line: I leave the room brimming %with the mystery of sleeping life
Subject(s): Nurses