English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
1She led the class procession as the Lady with the Lamp.
2She didn't say anything about being Lady with the Lamp or top of her class.
3During the Crimean War, the Lady with the Lamp trained these women in her pioneering nursing practices.
4Mrs. Kaufman informed Hildemara that she would head the procession as the Lady with the Lamp, Florence Nightingale, the mother of nursing.
5Her noble work was celebrated by Longfellow, in his poem "Santa Filomena," often better known as "The Lady with the Lamp":
6In it she-sheyonder-yes ,thelady with the lamp, came and stood by him, and said, 'Be steadfast.'
7I need not say that no one has ever again heard the wailings, nor seen the lady with the lamp.
8"Well, well, so here's the grand Lady with the Lamp."
9"Enter the Lady with the Lamp!"
10But "the lady with the lamp" soon brought about a revolution; and the soldiers knew to their joy what it was to have proper nursing.
Translations for Lady with the Lamp