Social Commentaries
Poetic Aphorisms: The Best Medicines
From Translations
Social Commentaries
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
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Codex Note
Translated by Longfellow from Friedrich von Logau, German
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: The Best Medicines.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/372/.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: The Best Medicines.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/372/.
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