Then, American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalised Florence Nightingale as the “Lady with the Lamp.” in his poem Santa Filomena. He wrote: Lo! in that house of misery ...

Nicknamed “the Lady of the Lamp” by an intrepid journalist for the London Times, and subsequently immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1857 poem “ Santa Filomena,” Florence ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote of her — in his 1857 poem “Santa Filomena” — as the Lady with the Lamp, who “flitted from room to room” kissing “speechless sufferers” in the ...

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ’s 1857 poem, Santa Filomena: “A noble type of good / Heroic ...