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Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

was his occupation until the outbreak of the great civil war in 1862, when he undertook the duty of nursing

As a hospital nurse, Whitman proved the nobleness of his nature by his untiring devotion to the sick

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

His brother having been wounded in an early engagement, he went to the front to nurse him.

Whitman's aim was not to supplant but to suplement the doctors and nurses by giving aid which they had

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