Birthday Wishes to a Physician

Moorer, Lizelia Augusta Jenkins (0 - 0)

Original Text

Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer, Prejudice Unveiled and Other Poems (Boston: Roxburgh, 1907), pp. 115-16. Facsimile edition in Collected Black Women's Poetry, vol. 3, ed. Joan R. Sherman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). PS591 N4C57 1988 v. 3 c. 1 Robarts Library.

1Birthday greetings

2From a friend,

3All thy meetings

4Peace attend.

5Time extended

6Be thy store,

7Bliss appended

8Evermore.

9Did the flowers

10Born of May,

11From their bowers

12Choose a day?

13Music ringing,

14On the air,

15Flowers springing

16Everywhere.

17Chanting gayly,

18Five and eight,

19Make the day we

20Celebrate.

21Where's the doctor?

22Can you tell,

23How she make her

24Patients well?

25Soul of beauty,

26Day by day,

27To her duty

28Hies away.

29With the sickest,

30Day and night,

31In the thickest

32Of the fight.

33Heaven's treasure

34Be thine end,

35Is the measure

36Of a friend.

Publication Start Year

1907

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

RPO 1998.

Rhyme

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