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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN HOSPITAL: 1. ENTER PATIENT, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning mists still haunt the stony street
Last Line: Cold, naked, clean -- half workhouse and half-jail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals
First Line: The morning mists still haunt the stony street
Last Line: Cold, naked, clean -- half workhouse and half-jail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals
The morning mists still haunt the stony street;
The northern summer air is shrill and cold;
And lo, the Hospital, grey, quiet, old,
Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet.
Thro' the loud spaciousness and draughty gloom
A small, strange child -- so aged yet so young! --
Her little arm besplintered and beslung,
Precedes me gravely to the waiting-room.
The grey-haired soldier-porter waves me on,
And on I crawl, and still my spirits fail:
A tragic meanness seems so to environ
These corridors and stairs of stone and iron,
Cold, naked, clean -- half workhouse and half-jail.
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