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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRIEND, by JEANNIE SNIFFIN COX First Line: Into my life fate tossed today Last Line: That leads you, gently, down the years to god. | |||
Into my life Fate tossed today Autumn leaves of brown, red, and gold; Memories you bring of other years, Bitter-sweet, within my heart to hold. Silver hair, and eyes grown dim with tears, My heart, a-weary with the tinsel blare of youth, Feeds hungrily upon your thoughts and words, And basks within the hallowedness of truth. Around your soul, beloved friend, The tendrils of my heart twine, And borrow, from your spirit's greatness, Peace to calm this restless soul of mine. Soul answers soul, in that vast silence, Where only souls in unison have trod; I barter all, my friend, to learn the secret That leads you, gently, down the years to God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY: THE GHOST WHOSE LIPS WERE WARM; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS TOM O'ROUGHLEY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY by ABRAHAM COWLEY TO MY CHILDREN: 3 by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD SONNET: 94 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 3 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SONNETS OF MANHOOD: SONNET 24. BALCOMBE FOREST by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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