Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FEMALE FRIEND, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poet's Biography First Line: In this imperfect, gloomy scene Last Line: Who has a faithful female friend! Subject(s): Friendship | ||||||||
IN this imperfect, gloomy scene Of complicated ill, How rarely is a day serene, The throbbing bosom still! Will not a beauteous landscape bright, Or music's soothing sound, Console the heart, afford delight, And throw sweet peace around? They may, but never comfort lend Like an accomplish'd female friend! With such a friend, the social hour In sweetest pleasure glides; There is in female charms a power Which lastingly abides The fragrance of the blushing rose, Its tints and splendid hue, Will with the season decompose, And pass as flitting dew; On firmer ties his joys depend Who has a polish'd female friend! The pleasures which from thence arise Surpass the blooming flower, For though it opens to the skies, It closes in an hour! Its sweetness is of transient date, Its varied beauties cease They can no lasting joys create, Impart no lasting peace; While both arise, and duly blend In an accomplish'd female friend! As orbs revolve and years recede, As seasons onward roll, The fancy may on beauties feed, With discontented soul! A thousand objects bright and fair May for a moment shine, Yet many a sigh and many a tear But mark their swift decline; While lasting joys the man attend Who has a faithful female friend! | 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 LIBERALITY OF SENTIMENT: AND SO HOME by CORNELIUS WHUR |
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