Skip to content
Linespedia

To Doc Wylie (An Eccentric Bush Doctor)

Topics: classic

Though doctors may your name discard     And say you physicked vilely,     I would I were as good a bard     As you a doctor, Wylie!     How often, when your skill subdued     The fever ranging highly,     You won a bushmans gratitude,     Though little more, Doc Wylie!     How oft across the regions wide     Where scrub for many a mile lay     The bushman rode, as bushmen ride,     To seek your aid, Doc Wylie!     But now, when bushmans wife or child     Lies ill and suffering direly,     Hell need to ride a weary while     Before he finds Doc Wylie.     I hope where they have made your bed,     And where these verses I lay,     Theyll raise a board above your head,     And write your name, Doc Wylie!

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"Though doctors may your name discard..."

This evocative piece by Henry Lawson, titled "To Doc Wylie (An Eccentric Bush Doctor)", represents a masterful exploration of classic. The lines capture a profound emotional resonance... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth,     His hat pushed from his brow,     His dress best fitted for the South,     I think I see him now;"

"There is a quiet gentleman a-motoring in France     (Oh, dont you hear the honking of a British motor-car?),     Like any quiet gentleman that"

"A fresh sweet-scented beauty     Came tripping down the street;     She was as fair a vision     As you might chance to meet.     A masher rai"

"O bard of fortune, you deem me nought     But a mark for your careless scorn.     For I am the echo-less grave of thought     That is strangled"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth,     His hat ..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.