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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NURSES Matches Found: 239 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 |
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