III. The Ward

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III. The Ward

Poet(s)

Henley, William Ernest

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

Source

The Cornhill Magazine Series 1 32:187, 121, July 1875.

First line

Four long brown walls—a waste of plaster, bare

Document status

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Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

I. First Impressions
II. Waiting
IV. The Visit
V. Before Operation
VI. After Operation
VII. Night Picture
VIII. Another
IX. Floral
I. A Surgeon
II. A Student
III. Staff-Nurse: Old Style
IV. Lady Probationer
V. Staff-Nurse: New Style
VI. A Scrubber
VII. A Patient
VIII. A Visitor
IX. Children: Private Ward

Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits, and is signed at the end with Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. The first nine poems have the overall title Sketches (120-24), and the second nine poems have the overall title Portraits (124-28). The first poem in the first series is illustrated by Arthur Hopkins. (SP, AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 12371

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

III. The Ward