Doctor Lounge shelf
Witnessing suffering
What physicians wrote after staying in the room: pain observed, attended, and carried home.
How this shelf is gathered
Witnessing suffering
Built from poem labels and lines that describe suffering, pain, watching, and bedside presence.
Representative records
Poems surfaced from the current release.
- CHANT SECOND.French · 19th century · English available
O night both delicious and fleeting! How insipid the God of waking seemed to me, When he came suddenly, with indiscreet zeal, To tear me regretfully from the sweetest dreams. I...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - Epître à monsieur le baron DupuytrenFrench · 19th century · English available
In this vast edifice where a hundred beds of pain, Of the poor city-dweller whom his labor nourishes, Of the child surprised by the incendiary flame, Or whom a careless cart has...
Le Parnasse médical français - LA MORT ET LE MÉDECIN.French · 19th century · English available
It is to death alone that I am indebted For having recovered my health. Death has no reason to be so charitable, I admit; yet, thanks to her goodness, You see me resurrected. Th...
Le Parnasse médical français