EPH. WHAT Friendship is, Ardelia, show. ARD. 'Tis to love as I love you. EPH. This account, so short (though kind), Suits not my enquiring mind. Therefore farther now repeat: What is Friendship when complete? ARD. 'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From the tongue, the heart, the hand; 'Tis to mortgage house and land; For a friend be sold a slave; 'Tis to die upon a grave, If a friend therein do lie. EPH. This indeed, though carried high; This, though more than e'er was done Underneath the rolling sun, This has all been said before. Can Ardelia say no more? ARD. Words indeed no more can show: @3But 'tis to love, as I love you@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A PROPOSED TRIP SOUTH by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE BALLAD WHICH ANNE ASKEW MADE AND SANG WHEN SHE WAS IN NEWGATE by ANNE ASKEWE OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD by WILLIAM COWPER THE WIND SUFFERS by LAURA RIDING A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 46. AL-WASI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD |