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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poet's Biography
First Line: One line may, like a friend who knows us well
Last Line: Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets
First Line: One line may, like a friend who knows us well
Last Line: Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets
ONE line may, like a friend who knows us well,
Re-ope the wound whose smart is not forgot;
The word that doth another's sufferings tell
May drop like tears on our own anguished spot,
Where heart misjudged awaits its soothing spell.
My verse, perchance, may reach you and restore,
With lightning flash, the sleeping grief of old;
Or by that one true word -- long waited for --
The sudden name of all you feel unfold,
Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore.
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