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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN HOSPITAL: 19. SCRUBBER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
Last Line: No rougher, quainter speech, nor kinder heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals
First Line: She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
Last Line: No rougher, quainter speech, nor kinder heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Hospitals
She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
With flashes of the old fun's animation
There lowers the fixed and peevish resignation
Bred of a past where troubles came apace.
She tells me that her husband, ere he died,
Saw seven of their children pass away,
And never knew the little lass at play
Out on the green, in whom he's deified.
Her kin dispersed, her friends forgot and gone,
All simple faith her honest Irish mind,
Scolding her spoiled young saint, she labours on:
Telling her dreams, taking her patients' part,
Trailing her coat sometimes: and you shall find
No rougher, quainter speech, nor kinder heart.
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