OLD friends are best! And so to you Again I send, in closer throng, No unfamiliar shapes of song, But those that once you liked and knew. You surely will not do them wrong; For are you not an old friend, too? -- Old friends are best. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue; -- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, -- All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHN CHARLES FREMONT by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT by MARIA ABDY THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: ECLOGUE by WILLIAM BASSE SATISFIED by HESTER A. BENEDICT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 68. THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN: 3 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |