Your words came just when needed. Like a breeze, Blowing and bringing from the wide salt sea Some cooling spray, to meadow scorched with heat And choked with dust and clouds of sifted sand That hateful whirlwinds, envious of its bloom, Had tossed upon it. But the cool sea breeze Came laden with the odors of the sea And damp with spray, that laid the dust and sand And brought new life and strength to blade and bloom So words of thine came over miles to me, Fresh from the mighty sea, a true friend's heart, And brought me hope, and strength, and swept away The dusty webs that human spiders spun Across my path. Friend -- and the word means much -- So few there are who reach like thee, a hand Up over all the barking curs of spite And give the clasp, when most its need is felt, Friend, newly found, accept my full heart's thanks. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREAKING by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON SONNET (3) by JOACHIM DU BELLAY MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE HALL by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH ABNEGATION by KATHARINE BROWN BURT THE BLUES; A LITERARY ECLOGUE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |