Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY FRIEND, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poet's Biography First Line: The tender touch of a gentle hand Last Line: Learn something there no other may know. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship | ||||||||
THE tender touch of a gentle hand To-night on my aching brow, The sound of a loving low-tuned voice, How pleasant they would be now; I think they would send the shadows away Which hang so closely around me to-day. And, sitting idly, I close my eyes And dream how perhaps one day, In my lonely hours, my long sought friend Will come to my home and say "Bring all your tired thoughts to me dear and rest, No shadow will touch you here on my breast." I shall not tell her, but she will know; My rest will be very sweet, And all the shadow and gloom will go, Caught up in the toiling street, And I shall thank her and clasp her hand, And she will smile and understand. And if on the morrow we chance to meet With others, her face will be Happy and bright for them all, and just A little kinder for me, And once I shall look in her eyes, and so, Learn something there no other may know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND NO RESURRECTION by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL ALMSWOMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO AN ENEMY by MAXWELL BODENHEIM SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES TO MY CHILDREN: 3 by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD |
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