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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SIR THOS. BARLOW, P.R.C.P., by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's all up I may tell you, good thomas barlow Last Line: Most kindly frank'd me a copy of his dissertation. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945); Physicians; Doctors | |||
IT'S all up I may tell you, good Thomas Barlow, The new medicine is wholly broken and done for: You must give up Profession and College, Barlow. Your fine Address, man, on the basis of treatment, So practical so blindly hopeful of progress, 'Tis but delusion; all is ended and done for. For lately Stephen Coleridge in a current Monthly Has wittily in a few words the system exploded. Better retire and leave the stage, my dear Barlow. You've been accustom'd in matters of importance To look to me to give you earliest tidings; So I devote a penful of little scazons To write the dirge of medicine and modern science. The wonder is how nearly both of us miss'd it: Nor would any whisper'd hint of it have ever reach'd me, Had not the well-deserving excellent author Most kindly frank'd me a copy of his dissertation. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DOCTOR WHO SITS AT THE BEDSIDE OF A RAT by JOSEPHINE MILES EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER) by RAFAEL CAMPO HER FINAL SHOW by RAFAEL CAMPO SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS by RAFAEL CAMPO WHAT THE BODY TOLD by RAFAEL CAMPO MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY by CAROLYN KIZER THE NERVE DOCTORS by THOMAS LUX DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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