Bitter the things one's enemies will say Against one sometimes when one is away, But of a bitterness far more intense The things one's friends will say in one's defence. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WOMAN'S LAST WORD by ROBERT BROWNING COUNT THAT DAY LOST by MARY ANN EVANS SONNET, WRITTEN IN JANUARY 1817 by JOHN KEATS THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS by THOMAS MOORE GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM CHRISTMAS LULLABY by MARY KATUS ANDERSON |