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Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished “Beloved Physician” honors the steady care, loyalty, and exhaustion of Marie Louise Shew in a brief midnight reading.
Only a fragment of the poem survives. Its lines watch a tireless caregiver measure an unsteady pulse, continue through night and day, and finally yield to necessary sleep. Repeated images of toil, loyalty, and a faithful heart make the surviving verse feel both grateful and painfully intimate. The missing stanzas leave the full design of Poe’s tribute unknowable.
Henrique Couto introduces the reading through a childhood memory of discovering an Edgar Allan Poe collection at his elementary-school library, carrying it home as a storm approached, and finding fear and excitement in the stories. “Beloved Physician” becomes part of that continuing series of Poe performances: a compact literary interlude meant for the quiet edge of midnight.
This episode is a reading of the surviving poem fragment, not a complete narrative story. It is best suited to listeners searching for Edgar Allan Poe poetry, rare Poe works, Marie Louise Shew, Gothic literature, and atmospheric spoken-word performance.
This episode is sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Transcript prepared from a new automatic transcription of this episode’s released Spreaker recording. Separate host introductions, closing remarks, and identified advertisements are omitted. Reviewed for the previously flagged gaps and repetition; not checked word for word by a human against the audio. Some transcription errors may remain. Only the poem reading is included; line breaks follow the recovered reading.
Beloved Physician
by Edgar Allan Poe
The pulse beats ten and intermits
God nerve the soul that ne'er forgets
In calm or storm
By night or day
Its steady toil
Its loyalty
The pulse beats ten
and intermits.
God shield the soul
that ne'er forgets.
The pulse beats ten
and intermits.
God guide the soul
that ne'er forgets.
So tired,
so weary,
the soft head bows
the sweet eyes close
the faithful heart yields to repose
