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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FRIENDSHIP Matches Found: 1558 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND TRUTH", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "friendship doth bind, with pleasant ties" Last Line: While e'er the human soul shall live Subject(s): Friendship 3 EPIPHANIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ever happened to Last Line: He cut me like a man. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love 9-NOV, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you asked, dear larry Last Line: To be liked, you've got to be well liked' Subject(s): Friendship; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915) A BILIOUS DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: One day I stalked, when fate had balked Last Line: The same I'll recommend. Subject(s): Fate; Friendship; Destiny A BOTTLE AND A FRIEND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a bottle and an honest friend Last Line: And comes not aye when sought, man. Subject(s): Friendship A BOY'S SONG, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the pools are bright and deep Last Line: That 's the way for billy and me. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Variant Title(s): Over The Lea;the Way For Billy And Me Subject(s): Boys; Friendship A BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie at rest asleep and dead Last Line: Hallelujah, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Old Friends Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares A CHAPLET FOR JUDITH LANDRY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear judith: in sincerest gratitude Subject(s): Friendship; Hospitality A CHARACTER OF HIS FRIEND, W.B. ESQ, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To raise up virtue when 'tis sinking down Last Line: Is still the labour of my noble friend. Subject(s): Friendship A CHARACTER OF JOSEPH PRIESTLY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of truth! Alike thro nature's field Last Line: He tun'd his pipe to suit the wild cascade. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Nostalgia; Friendship; Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) A CHRISTMAS WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: O, santa claus! I ask no toys Last Line: The gracious presence of a friend. Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint A CLUSTER OF ROSES TO A FRIEND, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, beautiful roses Last Line: Be the gifts of his matchless love. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love; Roses A DIALOGUE: JOHN AND RICHARD, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John: what! Must maecenas, when he sups Last Line: Does horace's intent remain! Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets A FAITHFUL DOG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My merry-hearted comrade on a day Last Line: Fast-locked against a loved one, evermore? Variant Title(s): Faithful Follower, Gentle Friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Loyalty A FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What is a friend? I'll tell you Last Line: "a friend, I repeat, is one with whom you dare to be yourself" Subject(s): Friendship A FRIEND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Dear name, & dearer thing! To thee Last Line: Inseparably linked are to thee. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Worship A FRIEND, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that he came to give Last Line: His praise, bring all I have to bring. Subject(s): Friendship A FRIEND, by PETER ALFRED PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Who is a friend? Perhaps you boast of many Last Line: And thus be known until my life shall end. Subject(s): Friendship A FRIEND, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: I knew him well; we fenced at many a bout Last Line: Of shining fame . . . And I have lost a friend. Subject(s): Fame; Fencing; Friendship; Reputation A FRIEND, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a little thing Last Line: That a friend is near and feels. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Friendship A FRIEND'S GREETING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me Last Line: I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship A FRIEND'S ILLNESS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness brought me this Last Line: Against a soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Friendship; Sickness; Illness A GENESIS TEXT FOR LARRY LEVIS, WHO DIED ALONE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It will always happen -- the death of a friend Last Line: But where was that woman and her snake when we needed them? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; Levis, Larry (1946-1996); Memory; Men; Dead, The A GOOD-BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by, my friend!' Last Line: "were this a real 'good-by'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Separation; Isolation; Parting A GREETING, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: To my very best friend! To you, dear friend Last Line: Till every heart is full. Subject(s): Friendship; Greetings; Love; Wishes A LETTER FROM BRAZIL, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old friend from schooldays Last Line: Have been damaged and have to be replaced Subject(s): Friendship A LETTER TO A FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past is like a story Last Line: As when scattered o'er the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fame; Friendship; Letters; Past; Reputation A LONG WHILE AGO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow Last Line: A long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Friendship; Melancholy; Memory; Dejection A LOST PEARL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know where I lost it Last Line: To my heart the lost heart of my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A MIDSUMMER MEMORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift april ardors bring the white of may Last Line: Rests, circled by that promise: they shall see! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Soul; Spring; Arthur, King; Dead, The A MINOR PROPHET, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend, a vegetarian seer Last Line: Throbbing respondent to the far-off orbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Salvation; United States; Belief; Creed; Theology; America A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 28, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet it is pitiful how friendships die Last Line: With a true brother still, and hand in hand. Subject(s): Friendship A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These winds and suns of spring Last Line: 03/26/80 Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LADY AUSTEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear anna - between friend and friend Last Line: "a threefold cord is not soon broken." Subject(s): Friendship A PRAYER, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Far-famed fair helen, stretching forth a hand Last Line: To pardon even meagerness its debts. Subject(s): Despair; Friendship; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Prayer A PROVEN FRIEND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A proven friend is like a gushing spring upon life's Last Line: Where love is in control. Subject(s): Friendship A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Text First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The A SENTIMENT (1), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pledge of friendship! It is still divine Last Line: And genial nature still defy reform! Subject(s): Friendship A SHOT AT RANDOM, by DOMINIC BEVAN WYNDHAM LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot an arrow into the air: / I don't know how it fell or where Last Line: I found it again in the neck of a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Shy, Timothy; Lewis, Wyndham Subject(s): Friendship; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 32, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From far, from eve and morning Last Line: I take my endless way. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): In Haste Subject(s): Friendship; Mourning; Bereavement A SONG OF THE HILLS AND MY FRIEND, by GEOFFREY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: There are two things I long for Last Line: Perhaps. I pray him so. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Mountains; Oxford University; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SONNET TO A PICTURE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I do not need this picture on my wall Last Line: And not as mangled by a shrapnel-shell. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Portraits A STORY AT DUSK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An evening all aglow with summer light Last Line: And wept away his passion by himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Change; Dogs; Death A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO MY FRIEND T.L. WHOSE GOOD NATURE I SEE ABUSDE, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dyd not dame seres tell to you Last Line: And so I say adewe. Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships A TEMPLE TO FRIENDSHIP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A temple to friendship,' cried laura, enchanted Last Line: "who came but for friendship, and took away love!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Friendship A THANKSGIVING FOR F.D. MAURICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veil hath lifted and hath fallen; and him Last Line: His spirit send thou back in thine again. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Humility; Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-1872); Piety; Praise; Virtue A TIME TO TALK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a friend calls to me from the road Last Line: For a friendly visit. Subject(s): Friendship A VALENTINE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And cannot pleasures, while they last Last Line: Of wasting sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Letters; Valentine's Day A WAYFARING SONG, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O who will walk a mile with me Last Line: And then? -- farewell, we shall meet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): A Mile With Me Subject(s): Friendship A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations A WINTER WISH, by ROBERT HINCKLEY MESSINGER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Old wine to drink! Last Line: Can books, or fire or wine be good? Variant Title(s): Give Me The Old Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Friendship; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ABSENCE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wanes the garish light of day, and stilly night comes on Last Line: So is thy presence to my heart, so dear art thou to me! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Parting ACCEPT MY FULL HEART'S THANKS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words came just when needed Last Line: Friend, newly found, accept my full heart's thanks. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship ADOBE, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: Her eyes are dark almonds, remembering Last Line: So, you will ask, how is your life Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sickness ADVICE, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ye would love and loved be Last Line: Be secret, true and patient! Subject(s): Friendship ADVICE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must do as you do? Your way I own Last Line: But I trust we shall meet -- in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Flowers; Friendship; Life; Roses AFRICAN JUMP BALL, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can you dribble? Aw, man, you can't dribble Last Line: See there, we done set the net on fire Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Basketball; Friendship; Sports AFTER A SPANISH PROVERB, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mercifullest one of all, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Friendship AFTER GIVING QUESTIONABLE ADVICE TO A FRIEND I'M ATTRACTED TO, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: I pull the frayed rope Last Line: And lush heads of lettuce into place, %mine for the taking Subject(s): Advice; Friendship AFTER READING HASSAN: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thou, no negro but a slender moor Last Line: Return, mesrour; return, return, mesrour! Subject(s): Friendship AFTER SAPPHO'S PHAINETAI MOI, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: Sweeter to me than any god Last Line: Friend without whom, nothing Subject(s): Friendship; Nature AFTER SICKNESS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The night my fever breaks Last Line: Nearer the bursting yellow fruit %than the thorns. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love AFTER YOM KIPPUR, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: The great white fast! The day that solemnly Last Line: Bind all of life in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Friendship; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism AFTERNOON TEA, by RUTH SCHERMERHORN Poem Text First Line: I have been on a long journey Last Line: But I might think wrong. Subject(s): Friendship AGASSIZ, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Last Line: Than ours whose sense familiar wont makes numb. Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Friendship; Science; Scientists AGNES SNAGGLETOOTH, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't like agnes snaggletooth Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Friendship AH, FRIENDSHIP, STRONGER IN THY MIGHT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Friendship AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come follow me, my wand'ring mates Subject(s): Friendship ALBUMANIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friendship, when I muse on Last Line: "he's lying, just the same!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Thought; Thinking ALFRED CORNING CLARK (1916-1961), by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You read the new york times Subject(s): Clark, Alfred Corning (1916-1961); Friendship; New York Times (newspaper) ALFRED CORNING CLARK (1916-1961), by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You read the new york times Last Line: Motionless %as a lizard in the sun Subject(s): Clark, Alfred Corning (1916-1961); Friendship; New York Times (newspaper) ALL ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a robin Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship ALMSWOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Friendship ALONE ON EARTH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He turned up at the baseball park-- Last Line: And all alone on earth! Subject(s): Baseball; Friendship; Solitude; Sports; Loneliness ALONG THE HIGHROAD THE WAY IS TOO LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On me, for the broad light of many suns Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Walking; Friendship ALTRUISM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you have a friend worth loving Last Line: "so until the happy end, / your life shall never lack a friend" Variant Title(s): Speak Out;a Sermon In Rhyme;seeds Of Kindness;say It Now Subject(s): Friendship;kindness ALWAYS BE TRUE TO YOURSELF, by RANDLEY FISHER Poem Source First Line: Take time to know yourself Last Line: You are a very special person Subject(s): Friendship; Love ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOUR UNLIMITED POTENTIAL, by EDMUND O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Believe in yourself Last Line: You are meant to be %whatever you dream of becoming Subject(s): Friendship; Love ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, by DOROTHY HEWITT Poem Source Last Line: For then you will receive %all of life's gifts Subject(s): Friendship; Love ALWAYS CREATE YOUR OWN DREAMS AND LIVE YOUR LIFE .. FULLEST, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: Dreams can come true Last Line: And your dreams will become %a reality Subject(s): Friendship; Love ALWAYS HAVE A DREAM IN YOUR HEART, by COLLIN MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: May you know, in your heart, that Last Line: They'll keep trying their best - %to blossom for you Subject(s): Friendship; Love ALWAYS HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAMS, by NANCYE SIMS Poem Source First Line: Don't let go of hope in your dreams Last Line: That we live life to its fullest Subject(s): Friendship; Love AMANTIUM IRAE AMORIS REDINTEGRATIO EST, FR. PARADYSE OF DAYNTY DEVISES, by RICHARD EDWARDS (1523-1566) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In going to my naked bed as one that would have slept Last Line: The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwardes, Richard Variant Title(s): The Falling Out Of Friends Subject(s): Friendship AMBER! AMBER!, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Your friendliness breaks against me, and that too is good Last Line: Amber, amber, I call to you, while I stiffen %more beautiful than a jewel Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Beginnings AMIS AND AMILOUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: For love of god in trinity / ye who be gentle hearken me Last Line: "they have reward in heavenly bliss / that ne'er an end shall know! Amen, amen" Subject(s): Friendship AMONG MY FRIENDS LOVE IS A GREAT SORROW, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That one might have for an honest living Subject(s): Friendship AN AMERICAN BEAUTY; FOR ANN LONDON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you described your mastectomy in calm detail Last Line: Your last wedding day. Subject(s): Biography; Death; Friendship; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Dead, The; Feminism AN APPEAL TO OUR BOY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Here is a friend, my little man Last Line: Hail to you, little generous knight! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Friendship; Childhood AN APRIL SONG, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the world and through the world Last Line: This life's heavenly fellowship! Subject(s): April; Friendship; Love; Spring AN AUTOGRAPH (2), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years that since we met have flown Last Line: Is better than the voice of fame. Subject(s): Friendship AN AWKWARD SITUATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Try as I would I could not rid myself of the bore Last Line: "'certainly, sir,' he replied. 'step this way.'" Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends AN ELEGIAC EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my youth, shedd'st thou the pitying tear Last Line: To find nought worse than I have left below. Subject(s): Friendship AN EMBER PICTURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange are the freaks of memory Last Line: For is it not all a dream? Subject(s): Friendship; Memory AN EPISTLE, by MARY MOLLINEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is friends fled, or love grown cold? Last Line: The same effects, dear friend, in thee. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Spring AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, true, thou say'st the fools at court denied Last Line: And shelburne's fame through laughing valleys ring. Subject(s): Friendship; Petty, William. 2d Earl Of Shelburne AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, with a reaumur's skill, thy curious mind Last Line: "and, with the swallow, wings the year away!" Subject(s): Friendship AN EPISTLE TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtis whose wit, with fancy arm in arm Last Line: My moorings to the past snap one by one. Subject(s): Curtis, George William (1824-1892); Friendship AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear joseph - five and twenty years ago Last Line: Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. Subject(s): Friendship AN ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud swells. Ocean chop. Exhaustion's Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Friendship AN IDEAL TRIO, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An arbor of flowers Last Line: Away in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Friendship; Nature; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse AN INFORMAL EPITAPH IN MEMORY OF A YOUNG POET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who so loved all grey religious things Last Line: And long and long for your return alone! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Death; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The AN ODE (6), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, dearest villiers, poor departed friend Last Line: And equal rites perform to that which once was thee. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise AND WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP BUT A NAME, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, SELS., by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Love; Love - Marital ANGEL OF STRAYS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: At almost sixteen, my daughter %is noticing architecture. Last Line: Me up like a stray roaming too long without desire, %or warm milk, or a voice to ask for either. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love APPRECIATION, by WILLIAM JUDSON KIBBY Poem Source First Line: Life's a bully good game with its kicks and cuffs Last Line: When I appreciate you and you appreciate me Subject(s): Friendship APRIL BYEWAY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend Last Line: The unseen friend, the one last friend in all the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Friendship ARE FRIENDS DELIGHT OR PAIN?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Riches are sad. Subject(s): Friendship AROUND THE CORNER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the corner I have a friend Last Line: Around the corner, a vanished friend. Subject(s): Friendship AS THE SUN CAME UP, A BALL OF RED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship AS YOU'RE A FRIEND, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Source First Line: You're a friend of mine, or I wouldn't ask' Subject(s): Friendship ASKING, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They asked a dying man if life was everything. He said Last Line: Until we are gone and happy and in want of nothing Subject(s): Friendship; Memory ASKING FAVORS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship always wavers, ceases to be Last Line: All your days, for your friends will shake you and denounce your ways. Subject(s): Friendship AT A MEETING OF FRIENDS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember - why, yes! God bless me! Last Line: The youth of his fifty summers he finds in his twenty friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Middle Age AT GOOD CHEER HOUSE ON FRIENDSHIP STREET, by JOSEPH MORRIS Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship AT HALF-MAST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You didn't know billy, did you? Well, bill was one of the boys Last Line: "you'll find me, boys, where my handkerchief is flyin' at half-mast." Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Worry; Dead, The AT HIS WINTRY TENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only master of his art was he Last Line: "old friend, good night -- for there is no good-by." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Friendship; Life; Tents; Dead, The AT PELEE POINT, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: It was decorous that day, johnston, my friend, to slosh out the vintage Last Line: And commit ourselves to the onset of the autumn migration Subject(s): Birds; Friendship AT PENSION TIME; TO A.R.F., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: At pension time when, worn and grey Last Line: When we may rest—and pouch our pay—at pension time! Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Old Age; Pensions; Time AT THE GARDEN GATE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who so late %at the garden gate? Last Line: Say emily, %kate, %and john Subject(s): Friendship; Toads AULD LANG SYNE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot Last Line: For auld lang syne. Variant Title(s): The Goal Of Life;auld Lang Syne (with Music) Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Reunions AURA, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: My aura is different from a hundred %others, the psychic tells me. Not smooth Last Line: And not that I want all this gold for myself, %this signal, this brief news of good. %not that I wan Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love AUTUMN, SELS., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Let us draw the curtains Subject(s): Friendship AVE ATQUE VALE; TO H.B.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: We were three men Last Line: We are three men. Subject(s): Friendship; Men AVIENUS: TO HIS FRIENDS, by RUFUS FESTUS AVIENUS Poem Text First Line: Ask'd in the country what I did, I said Last Line: I dine, drink, sing, play, bath, I sup, I rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Avianus Subject(s): Friendship AYLMER'S FIELD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride Last Line: Follows the mouse, and all is open field. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BACK FROM TOWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friends allus is the best Last Line: And shake a friendly leg with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Winter BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we the withered ferns Last Line: For friends that come and go. Subject(s): Friendship BALLADE: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since that my language without eloquence Last Line: And I mine own, that yours may not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Friendship; Language; Words; Vocabulary BANGLA DESH: 3. REVISITED AFTER THE HOLOCUAST, 1973, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who are strangers now, after our years of easy friendship Last Line: After everything else had been said. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Friendship; Reconciliation BANKSIDE; HOME OF EDMUND QUINCY, DEDHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I christened you in happier days, before Last Line: Nor public office a tramps' boosing-ken. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Houses; Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877); Dead, The BARS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I love the bars and taverns Last Line: Next to the sea Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Friendship; Havana, Cuba BARS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I love bars and taverns Last Line: Beside the sea Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Brotherhood; Drinks And Drinking; Friendship BE TRUE TO YOURSELF IN THE PURSUIT OF YOUR DREAMS, by LINDA PRINCIPE Poem Source First Line: In everyone's life Last Line: The right to be proud of your %accomplishments Subject(s): Friendship; Love BECAUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did we meet long years of Last Line: And only god knew why it was. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals BEDFELLOWS, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: They must have slept out nine dark Last Line: So much as the foolish thought %that they were bedfellows Subject(s): Beds; Friendship; Nature; Seasons BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING YOU CAN BE, by KAREN ST. PIERRE Poem Source First Line: If I could give you Last Line: That you can ever be Subject(s): Friendship; Love BELIEVE IN YOURSELF., by JOLEEN K. FOX Poem Source Last Line: And nothing will be beyond your reach Subject(s): Friendship; Love BELIEVER, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: A song to the man who says, 'old chap Subject(s): Friendship BENDING THE BOW, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship BENEDICITE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's love and peace be with thee, where Last Line: I greet thee, dearest, far away! Subject(s): Friendship BEST FRIEND, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sailed down Subject(s): Friendship; Sailors & Sailing; Boredom; Ennui BEST WISHES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Too often amazed and even shaken by affection Last Line: I wish them everything we wished ourselves Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Wishes BETSY JANE'S SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to buy you a birthday present,' said billy Subject(s): Friendship BETWEEN THE LINES, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, you have read it aright Last Line: Ah!—you never got it at all. Subject(s): Friendship; Writing & Writers BILL AND JOE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear old comrade, you and I Last Line: Hic jacet joe. Hic jacet bill. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Schoolmates BILL MATTHEWS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slub he used, and slur a lot, and blurred Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Friendship; Language BILL'S TENOR AND MY BASS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill was short and dapper, while I was thin and tall Subject(s): Friendship BIRTHDAY WALK (WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A birthday: -- and now a day that rose Last Line: On the broad tower of tamworth church Subject(s): Birthdays; Friendship BLACKBERRIES, SELS., by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, so much admired, so oft desired Last Line: His fame was rescued by a single plank Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Debates; Desire; Fame; Friendship; Revolutions BLIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it is a sorry thing Last Line: God bless her! -- help him! -- save us all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Friendship; Life; Love; Visually Handicapped BLUE NORTHER, by ISAAC W. WADE Poem Text First Line: Alone and self-imprisoned there, the town Last Line: To make them wish they were in hammond's place. Subject(s): Friendship; Marriage; Seasons; Towns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUEFINCH, by UNKNOWN+63 Poem Source First Line: If any one should come to me and bid me recommend Subject(s): Friendship BLYTHE JAMIE M'NAB, by SANDY RODGER Poem Text First Line: Gae find me a match for blythe jamie m'nab Last Line: May he mount up on high wi' blythe jamie m'nab. Subject(s): Friendship BON VOYAGE!, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To eastern lands, far-famed in song and / story Last Line: And bring you home—the pilgrim journey through. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages BOOK LOVER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I would follow you anywhere, into the shelves Last Line: You were saving for a long rain. I'll be the spine %you open to the tender light. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: MANIFESTO FOR THE HANDS, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: My old goat lover Last Line: Marcel. For matthew. %for myself Subject(s): Friendship; Memory BOOKS AND THE MAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the years gather round us like stern foes Last Line: But only old because they proved the best. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Literature; Osler, William, Sir (1849-1919); Reading BORN OF THE SPIRIT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She called me a moment before Last Line: Born of the spirit.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Dead, The BOUNCE'S LIFE OF POPE, by BRUCE MEYER Poem Source First Line: By verse or converse, I'm his best friend Last Line: But were he my dog, I'd kick his end Subject(s): Friendship BOUNTIFUL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Providence leads us to many tables Last Line: Bought by husbands roaming malls after the divorce Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Friendship; Love; Romance BOUNTY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A child and a rose Last Line: Child, rose and white soul of his mother! Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Friendship; Mothers; Roses; Childhood BOYHOOD FRIENDS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old adam warfield had an only son Last Line: A sigh of harold, looking at the stars. Subject(s): Friendship BRAHMS SONATA FOR CLARINET AND PIANO, by ANN HUDSON Poem Source First Line: After six years I discover the note Last Line: To me, language unbound by all our flaws Subject(s): Friendship; Music And Musicians BREATH COMMINGLED LIKE FRIENDS, by IRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Breath's labored natural Last Line: Commingled like %friends Subject(s): Breath; Friendship BREATHING EXERCISE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: If you go out far enough Last Line: You'll just be at the beginning %--of yourself Subject(s): Friendship BREATHING JESUS, by FRED D. WHITE Poem Source First Line: Take a deep breath,' said bill Last Line: With jesus's, inside my lungs Subject(s): Friendship BRIDGE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come a long way today Last Line: Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Absence; Friendship BRIEF MOMENT OF FATHERS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Finally in the dark quiet, in the arms Last Line: Wading in without you, to the edge %of his milky dreams. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love BRING ME YOUR HEART, by CHARLOTTE A. STERE Poem Text First Line: Oh, shower your gifts on anyone Last Line: But bring to me your heart! Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Love BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the voice I hear Last Line: "stronger than death is strong." Variant Title(s): England To America;a Voice From The West;to America Subject(s): England; Friendship; United States; English; America BROKEN FRIENDSHIP, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: Well, tiptoe out then from my heart Last Line: But tiptoe, and go lightly. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships BUYING A PUPPY, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Bring an old towel,' said pa Subject(s): Friendship BY THE FIRESIDE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well I know what I mean to do Last Line: One day, as I said before. Subject(s): Friendship BY THE WATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rivers lapsing down Last Line: And ah, where is my friend? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): River Thames Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Lilies; Thames (river) CAMELLIA, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Come to see the camellia Last Line: That closes upon itself-perfect Subject(s): Angels; Death; Friendship; Hearts; Heaven; Peace CARELESS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring gave me a friend, and a true,true love Last Line: And none the worse am I. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends CASTLE OF FRIENDSHIP, by JOSEPH MORRIS Poem Source First Line: I had a friend Subject(s): Friendship CASUALTIES: 1. SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can look the sun in the face Last Line: Though I can look the sun in the face Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss; Sickness; Soldiers CASUALTIES: 23. FRIENDS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The friends %that we have lost Last Line: Which is square upon love Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss CELEBRATION, by ALONZO LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: I shall dance tonight Last Line: And I shall be %a part of it Subject(s): Friendship CELEBRATION OF RUST, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I am so weak my enemies Last Line: With rust, the loveliest pollen Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Rust; Self-reliance CELIA TO DAMON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can I say, what arguments can prove Last Line: Than any youth for any nymph before! Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Love; Soul; Women; Joy; Delight CERVICAL JAZZ: GIRL FRIEND POEM: 9, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his worsted socks she followed Last Line: The pillowcase makes it so Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Women CHAMBER MUSIC: 17, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Because your voice was at my side Last Line: Who was my friend. Subject(s): Friendship; Transience; Impermanence CHAMBER MUSIC: 18, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sweetheart, hear you Last Line: Shall have rest. Subject(s): Friendship; Disappointment; Consolation; Desire CHAMPAGNE HOUR, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Lawrence welk strikes up %his twenty pieces. Last Line: Past the bathroom door %her arms clink %with four, maybe five, bottles. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: There's not much good in life save friends' Last Line: Heard in an aldine night long, long ago. Subject(s): Friendship; Warner, Charles Dudley (1829-1900); Writing & Writers CHARLES H. PHILIPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friend! There is no way Last Line: Thy high reward in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness CHASTE FLORIMEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No - I'll endure ten thousand deaths Last Line: Dear sir, and make me yours for ever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Truth; Dead, The CHOOSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready Last Line: For we meet by one or the other. Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHRISTIAN'S CALLING, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Christian is just learning to speak Last Line: He moans. %I have come to los angeles to die Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide CHRISTMAS SONNET TO R. H. S., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years go by, old friend! Each as it fleets Last Line: Are nearer, dearer, faithfuller than before. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Friendship; Rhyme; Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903) CID AND THE LEPER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He has ta'en some twenty gentlemen, along with him to go Last Line: He made his prayer right humbly, till dawned the morning clear Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Compassion; Friendship; Kindness CLASS REUNION, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I teach Last Line: Stay,' they say. 'have a drink with us.' Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Reunions; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CLAY, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are but clay,' the preacher saith Last Line: In thanks for this same kindly clay. Subject(s): Clay; Friendship CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This shepheard's plaine apologie (deare friend) Last Line: Colliden. Subject(s): Friendship; Shepherds & Shepherdesses CLIVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and clive were friends - and why not? Last Line: We'll hope condoned. Subject(s): Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); Friendship COATI-MUNDI, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went walking one fine sunday Subject(s): Friendship COCKSUCKER, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it was a horror like the motherfucker Last Line: Del, my friend, you cocksucker, I loved you too Subject(s): Friendship; Guitars; Music And Musicians COGNAC, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each summer I would coddle a bottle of cognac Last Line: Future still flush with desire Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Friendship; Liquorice; Parties; Reunions COLLAGE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Jb, %well--you've %asked for one Last Line: Just for your to %remember me by. %mae jean Subject(s): Art And Artists; Autographs; Friendship; Teenagers COLLEGE DAYS, by CARLETON HUNNEMAN Poem Text First Line: Dear fellow, when our college days are over Last Line: Our mother fair! Subject(s): Commencement; Friendship; Graduation COLOUR OF ROSE; TO D.D., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Colour of rose is all your world to-day Last Line: Colour of rose. Subject(s): Friendship COME BACK! YE FRIENDS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep! My fevered brain Subject(s): Friendship COMING DOWN IN OHIO, by DAVE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My uniform hung air force blue, way uncool Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Basketball; Death; Dead, The COMMUNITY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Almost no one in town calls this place a commune anymore, except Last Line: Older, manny plays catch with him almost every day. Then ben grows up, too Subject(s): Adoption; Boys; Friendship; Orphans; Stepmothers COMPANION PIECES, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: You come to the summit alone, Last Line: Alone at the summit, he dips his long cup, %her wings budding all day in his bright heart. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love COMPANIONS, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth had gone from them, taking love Last Line: Her ultimate return. Subject(s): Friendship COMPANIONSHIP, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger by me in the toils of life Last Line: But take the cross in sunshine and in rain. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery COMPETITORS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I had a friend to smoke and drink Last Line: A love that's reared at the breast? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Friendship; Love COMPLIMENTS OF A FRIEND, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many gifted pens have penned Last Line: Don't you feel that way about you? Subject(s): Friendship COMRADES, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, pour the wine tonight Last Line: When strong men die together! Subject(s): Absence; Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Friendship; War; Separation; Isolation; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse COMRADES, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the friends that I knew in my maying Last Line: My star where it rises a star of the dead. Subject(s): Friendship COMRADESHIP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifts a great sorrow like a lonely cloud Last Line: Is nobler wealth than this poor world's estate. Subject(s): Friendship CONDITION, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we share most is boredom, friend Last Line: Stalking bright aisles in search of distraction Subject(s): Friendship CONFESSIONS OF A COURTEOUS SOUTHERN WOMAN: SAYING THE MAGIC WORDS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Passion is one thing, %but what about raising. Last Line: I say please and thank you %and come out, come out, %like late, long rides. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love CONJUGATION, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: I joy Subject(s): Friendship CONSEQUENCES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair is big with friends I love Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Conduct Of Life; Relationships CONVERSATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense Last Line: It sounds jehovah's name, and pours his praise along. Subject(s): Friendship COR MIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Roses; Seasons CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War COUNTERSIGN, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Upon the dim, lone road Subject(s): Friendship CRI DES BOHEMES, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In that suburban villa, trim and neat Last Line: Is yours, or ours, old friend, the better part? Subject(s): Friendship CYRANO TO HIS CHIDING FRIENDS, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Do what? / seek a potent protector, slink under a patron Last Line: Not to soar high, perhaps, but rise alone! Subject(s): Friendship; Plays & Playwrights DAGGER, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you well, my steel-white dagger Last Line: Like you, my iron-hearted friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Fidelity; Friendship; Faithfulness; Constancy DAMON & PYTHIAS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he got into bed Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The DAN PAINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend of mine, whose chiming name Last Line: Smile on me just as now, dan paine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Friendship; Summer; Destiny DEAD FRIEND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, o gentle heart and true Last Line: Love makes music of his own past Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Roundels DEAD LETTERS (T.L.H.), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lay the letters of a hundred friends Last Line: Seemed friends that we had always known. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets DEAR OLD YALE, by H. S. DURAND Poem Source First Line: Bright college years, with pleasure rife Subject(s): Friendship DEAR TOM THIS BROWN JUG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear tom, this brown jug which now foams with good ale" Last Line: So here's to my lovely sweet kate of the vale Subject(s): Bottles;death;drinks & Drinking;friendship; "dead, The; DEDICATION 1878, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nine years gone, as we dwelt together Last Line: Though the thought at its heart should be deep as the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Friendship; Seasons; Fall DEDICATION TO LAODICE AND DANAE: TO B.J. FLETCHER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare ben fletcher, oft I bless Subject(s): Friendship DEDICATION TO MIDSUMMER EVE: TO CLINTON BALMER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lost valley all is still Subject(s): Hay, James Hamilton (1874-1916); Friendship DELAY IN FRIENDSHIP, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blossoms on the tree Last Line: The hunter and his game. Subject(s): Friendship DESCRIPTION OF TUNBRIDGE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, whose friendship I value much more Last Line: To yourself and all friends;—farewell muse! Farewell metre! Subject(s): Friendship DIRGE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a friend's friend I taste friendship Last Line: I do not fear the night above, %as I fear the friends below Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Friendship DISAPPOINTMENT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I said I had a friend Last Line: I have a friend! Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends DISTANCES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a friend who went away Last Line: How far he is away! Subject(s): Friendship DOLCE FAR NIENTE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, my chum, my trusty crony! Last Line: Two loafers couched in perfect bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Friendship; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence DOMESDAY BOOK: ELENOR MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coroner merival took the hundred letters Last Line: And at his house they talked the case and supped. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Letters; Love; Soul; Nightmares DOMINGO LIMON, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In high school I had a friend Last Line: I still see it, mingo. Subject(s): Boys; Friendship; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines DON'T EVER STOP DREAMING YOUR DREAMS, by LAINE PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Don't ever try to understand everything Subject(s): Friendship; Love DON'T LOSE HOPE IN YOUR DREAMS, by COLLIN MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: The days when our dreams Last Line: Their best to come true Subject(s): Friendship; Love DOOR NUMBER FOUR, by CHARLOTTE POMERANTZ Poem Source First Line: Above my uncle's grocery store Subject(s): Friendship DREAMING OF A FRIEND ONE NIGHT, by HUANG JING-REN Poem Source First Line: I am in halves: half here far from home Last Line: Through the open curtains the hazy blur %of the long road to be traveled Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Friendship DREAMS AND REALITIES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rosamond, thou fair and good Last Line: "shall be thy faith's reward." Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Belief; Creed DRIFTWOOD FOUND ON THE GREENBRIER TRAIL, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Something to mark the day, you said, Last Line: Pulled over their eyes. Their mouths %set against weeping. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love DUCKY DADDLES, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Ducky daddles, ducky daddles Last Line: "you are ""ducky"" to the end." Subject(s): Friendship E.G. DE R., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I seek her spell to decompose Last Line: All these are good, but better far is she. Subject(s): Friendship EACH DAY CAN BE THE BEGINNING OF A WONDERFUL FUTURE FOR YOU, by JUDITH J. YERMAN Poem Source First Line: Behind you lies a long road travelled Last Line: That leads to the goals you deserve %in the future Subject(s): Friendship; Love EACH DEFEAT, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please! Keep / reading me Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure EASTER GREETING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though friends be many or be few Last Line: I like to wish you joy and cheer Subject(s): Easter;friendship;holidays; The Resurrection ECHOES: 43, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends - old friends Last Line: With friends? Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Friendship ECLOGUE; CORYDON, CLOTTEN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corydon / rise, clotten, rise take up thy pipe and play Last Line: Not to abuse but to deserve thy love. Subject(s): Friendship; Money EDGE OF THE WORLD, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: The summer my grandmother was dying my father walked me to a Last Line: And crooked jaw, her stubby fingers and coppery skin, her breasts always two %years behind mine Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Poverty EGO; WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A FRIEND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On page of thine I cannot trace Last Line: Their varied gifts, I offer mine. Subject(s): Friendship ELEGIAC SONNET: 28. TO FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Whose name too often is profaned Last Line: And holds its altar -- on her spotless heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Friendship ELEGIAC SONNET: 34. TO A FRIEND, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charm'd by thy suffrage. Shall I yet aspire Last Line: Wilt weave green myrtle and unfading bays! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Friendship ELEGY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are ye, dear companions of my youth? Last Line: That hope would gild life's fast-declining day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Youth ELEGY ON CAPTAIN MATTHEW HENDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death! Thou tyrant fell and bloody! Last Line: E'er lay in earth. Subject(s): Friendship ELEGY WITH TRAINS (1), by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: My friend loved the story of the two men Last Line: Waiting, the whole unspared naked choir Subject(s): Friendship; Railroads; Sickness ELIZABETH CRIED, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship ENOCH ARDEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm Last Line: Had seldom seen a costlier funeral. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Religion; Theology ENTERTAINMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wouldst know what entertainment I expect? Last Line: As for thy meat, I shall but count it sauce. Subject(s): Friendship; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity EPHEMERAL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Life itself. 'brief' as a new bride's flat stomach Last Line: That's the trouble. %I never lose the argument Subject(s): Friendship; Life EPIGRAM: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accused though I be without desert Last Line: Except thou mind to put thy friend to pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Trust; Dead, The EPIGRAM: IN FAVOR OF MAKING NEW FRIENDS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, worthy man, whose noble life commends Last Line: "I'll prove, perhaps, ""a good old friend,"" at last!" Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Friendship EPILOGUE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our farce is now finished, your sport's ... End Last Line: Immutable amity to the world's end. %derry down, etc Subject(s): Americans In England; Friendship; Independence EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The female author who recites to-day Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse. Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks EPISTLE 1, 10. TO FUSCUS ARISTUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Health from the lover of the country, me Last Line: The horse doth with the horseman run away. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes EPISTLE TO CHARLES BAXTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Repeated grain should fill the reaper's grange Last Line: Toward the south. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship EPISTLE TO DR. ENFIELD ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of those years which from youth's sparkling fount Last Line: A daughter's sorrows o'er her father's urn! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Friendship; Guests; Visiting EPISTLE TO FABIO, by ANDRES FERNANDEZ DE ANDRADA Poem Source First Line: My fabio, the courtier's hopes are chains Last Line: Come, you shall see what is that noble end %toward which I aim, ere time die in our arms Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Friendship; Seville, Spain EPISTLE TO JAMES SMITH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear smith, the slee'st, pawkie thief Last Line: Whare'er I gang. Variant Title(s): Epitaph To James Smith;to James Smith Subject(s): Friendship EPISTLE TO JOHN BRADSHAW, ESQ.: 3, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though I writ a tedious letter Last Line: As true a friend * as was tom weaver. Subject(s): Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Friendship; Coriate, Thomas EPISTLE TO JOHN WILLIAMSON, by JOHN BRECKENRIDGE Poem Text First Line: My worthy freen', an' social sowl Last Line: An' mak's us blythe till the mornin'! Subject(s): Friendship EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY, REQUESTING A FAVOR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When nature her great master-piece design'd Last Line: My muse may imp her wing for some sublimer flight. Subject(s): Friendship EPITAPH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, traveller, you have come a long way led by that star Last Line: Living on catastrophe, eating the pure light Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Men EPITAPH ON A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, friend, for ever loved, for ever dear! Last Line: While solitary friendship sighs alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship EPITAPH: 31, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether this little Last Line: I know not. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship EPITAPH: TO A FRIEND LOST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I remember, friend, whom lost I call Last Line: Partakers of a strife they joyed to share. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Loss ERASMUS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ras wilson, I respect you, 'cause Last Line: A paw, fer old acquaintance sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Praise ERIC'S FUNERAL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired? Yes, a little, I believe. I'm not so very / strong Last Line: But are like unto the angels in god's house, which is heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials ERIE CANAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've got a mule, he name is sal Subject(s): Erie Canal; Friendship ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud swells. Ocean chop. Exhaustion's Last Line: Passing the life and times back and forth %across the table with you, my ideal friend Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Friendship EUGENE WATTERS IS DEAD', by DESMOND EGAN Poem Source First Line: Somehow we presume our friends will survive Last Line: Having thought you just as immortal %I was wrong was I? Subject(s): Friendship; Mortality EVENING WALK, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At evening too, how pleasing was our walk Subject(s): Friendship EVERETT ANDERSON'S FRIEND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone new has come to stay Last Line: Next door in 13a Subject(s): Friendship EVERETT ANDERSON'S FRIEND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone new has come to stay Subject(s): Friendship EXPERTO CREDE, by ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source First Line: Men lean on pleasant staves for many years Subject(s): Friendship FABLE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FABLES: 1ST SER. 50. THE HARE WITH MANY FRIENDS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship, like love, is but a name Last Line: For see the hounds are just in view. Subject(s): Animals; Friendship; Rabbits; Hares FAITHFUL FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The flatterer, whilst thou hast chink Subject(s): Friendship FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was still a boy, an' mother's pride Last Line: An' thank en, I do veel a little shy. Subject(s): Distrust; Friendship - False Friends; Practical Jokes; Fair Weather Friends; Pranks FANNY FORESTER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand sweet ties bind her here Last Line: As a libation there! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Friendship FANNY: 142, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He mingled now with those within whose veins Last Line: In every institution, whose proud aim %is public good alone,he soon became Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Friendship FEAR, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The host, he says that all is well Last Line: And on the window licks the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Friendship FENCES, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Shall I fast hedge myself within Last Line: Must surely freeze. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Love; Relationships; Fair Weather Friends FIFTY-FIFTY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there for us two Subject(s): Friendship FIFTY-FIFTY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there for us two Subject(s): Friendship FIND HAPPINESS IN EVERYTHING YOU DO, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: People will get only what they seek Last Line: Make a triumph %of every aspect %of your life Variant Title(s): Make A Triumph Of Every Aspect Of Lif Subject(s): Friendship; Love FIRST DEERFLY EMERGED SOLSTICE MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Among his fly friends he's a nice guy Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Bush, George; Character; Friendship; Nature FIRST NAME FRIENDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though some may yearn for titles great, and seek the frills of fame Last Line: And share the joyous comradeship of honest first-name friends. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship FIRST TIME THE CONSTRUCTION WORKER CAME TO THE HOUSE, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: First time the construction worker came to the house, he Last Line: Came as if he hadn't come at all Subject(s): Friendship; Labor And Laborers FLOWER OF THE SOUL, by BARTOLOME MITRE Poem Source First Line: I would give you a flower from the garden to desk your Last Line: But together they are two tears of honey Subject(s): Friendship; Grief FLOWERS, by NETTIE MCCARVER CONOVER Poem Source First Line: Oh, friend, if you truly love me Last Line: That jesus lives in you Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gifts And Giving FLOWERS FOR MY FRIEND, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: The flowers that I would give my friend Last Line: While he can see. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love - Loss Of FLUSH OR FAUNUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see this dog. It was but yesterday Last Line: Who by low creatures leads to heights of love. Subject(s): Animals; Consolation; Dogs; Friendship; Love FOG-TALK, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking the heaved cement sidewalk down main street Last Line: All sorts of joy, nodding yes. He says I don't know Subject(s): Fog; Friendship; Old Age FOOL AND FALSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With the shrewd and upright man Last Line: Shun him from the start Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity;honesty FOR A FAR-OUT FRIEND, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Because I once beat you up Subject(s): Friendship FOR A FAR-OUT FRIEND, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I once beat you up Last Line: You'll ever give %or get Subject(s): Friendship FOR A FRIEND, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the one man Subject(s): Friendship FOR ELIZABETH BLEECKER AVERELL, D. 20 JUNE 1957, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abrupt as that blessing gesture you always made Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The FOR EVERY DREAM IN YOUR HEART, by BARBARA VECQUERAY Poem Source Last Line: And let your heart carry you ever higher Subject(s): Friendship; Love FOR FRIENDSHIP, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship FOR JAN AS THE END DRAWS NEAR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never believed in safety Last Line: The present is this poem, o my dear. Subject(s): Aging; California; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR JAN, IN BAR MARIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though it's true we were young girls when we met Last Line: They call us janna and carolina, those two mad straniere. Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Friendship; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR MARGARET HAMILTON, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The imagination, powerful to paint Last Line: Yet signed mortality, sweet friend Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship FOR RAINER GERHARDT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Impossible, rightly, to define these Subject(s): Friendship FOR THE ALDERS AGAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Each morning your branches Last Line: Your great spinal discs Subject(s): Friendship; Leaves; Nature; Trees FOR THE WINTERSDORF GUILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal craftsman, lord of life Last Line: Love, bless our guild! Subject(s): Friendship; Guilds (associations); Hearts; Love FOR VIRGINIA CHAVEZ, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was never in the planning Last Line: To palm them back to living Subject(s): Friendship; Women FOR VIRGINIA CHAVEZ, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was never in the planning Last Line: That always lit your bookless room Subject(s): Friendship; Women FORTY YEARS AGO, by FRANCIS HUSTON Poem Source First Line: I've wandered to the village, tom, I've sat beneath the tree Subject(s): Friendship FOUR CHARADES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me you often meet / in london's crowded street Last Line: Though he may have the temper and meekness of a lamb. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Two Engimas: 2 Subject(s): Friendship FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: TO JOHN MOUNSON, SON AND HEIR TO SIR THOMAS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On you th' affections of your fathers friends Last Line: On each side placing you as near my heart! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Friendship FRAE THE FRIENDS AND LAND I LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship FRANKNESS BETWEEN FRIENDS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Says henry smith to me one day Subject(s): Friendship FRED PERRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, dear fred, our task is done Last Line: Whose name was alfred perry. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Monuments; Dead, The FRIAR-BACON: LOVE-SUPPLANTER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edward, prince of wales. / lacy, earl of lincoln Last Line: Is not of force to bury thoughts of friends.... Subject(s): Betrayal; Courtship; Friendship - False Friends; Hearts; Love; Fair Weather Friends FRIBBLE, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: Last year at deaf school Last Line: Venu, our predicament is older than stone Subject(s): Deafness; Friendship; Love; Old Age FRIEND, by NICHOLAS GRIMALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend Last Line: O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth staunch of strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Grimwoald, Nicholas; Grimoald, Nicholas Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Do you know paul, paul pine (he's nine) Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: The friend / who waits beside Last Line: Is death. Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Sympathy; Suffering; Misery; Empathy FRIEND, by PAUL KLEE Poem Source First Line: Notes %from afar Last Line: A friend, soon in the morning, behind the mountain Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Friendship FRIEND, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was going past capstan's well Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: When %he wills Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND, by RAIMBAUT DE VAQUEIRAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair friend, since that hour I took leave of thee Last Line: For soon it will be dawn. Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting FRIEND, by CORDELIA SIPPER Poem Source First Line: For weeks now %a wolf on the Last Line: Don't wait up for me %I'll be back Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend I need your hand every morning Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND AND FOE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Say, who is here? A foe? - a friend? Last Line: Help in a hand that cannot reach. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends FRIEND AND LOVER, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: When psyche's friend becomes her lover Last Line: Her lover has become -- her friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND IN HEAVEN, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I try to guess what radiance now Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND THAT'S TRUE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If the freaks of folly have set their snares Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND WENT THEN, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Source First Line: Hush! A friend went then! Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: Walk advance avoid %and fall Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDLY BEASTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jesus, our brother, king and good Last Line: I, said the dove from the rafters high Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDLY CINNAMON BUN, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: Shining in his stickiness and glistening with honey Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Thy friends! Nay spare the plural there Last Line: Would thee to breach of friendships wedlock woo. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the viscous heart I hide from you: Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry sky may be chill and drear Last Line: But 'tis rarely enough one finds a friend. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man from a house not far who rode the train Last Line: To all the people there we think we know Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man from a house not far who rode the train Last Line: To all the people there we think we know Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: If all the sorrows of this weary earth Last Line: The gift of friends, to share the way I go. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one comes often as the sun Last Line: I sometimes see across the world—a room. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FRIENDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They're creeping on the stairs outside Last Line: And less when I am dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The FRIENDS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Source First Line: There's a little touch o' winter in th' air Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't it fine when things are going Last Line: Smiles an' praises more an' more. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The first time I saw beauty and the beast Last Line: I knew my friends, though they'd swapped faces Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Friendship FRIENDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I glimpse a black cloud Last Line: Whose heart refuses to break Subject(s): Clouds; Friendship; Strength FRIENDS, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me 'why I like him.' nay Last Line: Because he is he and I am I. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Lo, of the friendship of our thoughts that met Last Line: Be dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by MAUDE WILLIAMS MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Friends,' she was saying, 'friends tell me...' Last Line: Friends! Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to know who are your friends, so Last Line: As through this woozy world he wends. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends FRIENDS, by BEA MYERS Poem Text First Line: Some are true / others are not Last Line: Or what you've got. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends FRIENDS, by ESTHER BERGMAN NAREY Poem Text First Line: At christmas time it seems to me Last Line: Grow just a little dearer. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the day dies, and the workers trudge homeward Last Line: We parted sure of each other: peace was upon us and serene love. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our friends in the courts of peace we keep Last Line: Through death is ours forever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The FRIENDS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends -- / they cannot help Last Line: And look above. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bitter the things one's enemies will say Last Line: The things one's friends will say in one's defence. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship FRIENDS BEYOND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William dewy, tranter reuben, farmer ledlow late at plough Last Line: And the squire, and lady susan, murmur mildly to me now. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The FRIENDS COME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Explaining to me that my mind Last Line: They are present as air. %they are there Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS IN DEATH, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffolk first died; and york, all haggled over Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS IN NEED, by ESTELLE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: I came to you with troubled heart Last Line: I needed you -- you needed me. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS OF HIS YOUTH, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends of his youth, friends of his prime Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS OF YOUTH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: I sought you, friends of youth, in sun and shade Last Line: Triumphantly the echo answered, 'there!' Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Friendship; Youth FRIENDS OF YOUTH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The half-seen memories of childish days Last Line: That friendship which first came, and which shall last endure. Variant Title(s): Early Friendship Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDS UNBORN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With this one friend - I ask no more Last Line: By his great love of beauty.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor elsewise man shall fellow meet Subject(s): Friendship; Transcendentalism FRIENDSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Friendship needs no studied phrases Last Line: "nurtures, strengthens, widens, lenghtens, / man's relationship with man" Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Love on roses sweetly sleeps Last Line: Vigil at the prison door! Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To meet a friendship such as mine Last Line: While bidding it, for thee, farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were idlers with the loitering rills Last Line: The hills sleep on in their eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Variant Title(s): To A Friend Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What virtue, or what mental grace Last Line: Or may my friend deceive me! Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witb a person Last Line: Blow the rest away. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by EDITH HICKMAN DIVALL Poem Source First Line: It is well that when storm-clouds are dark overhead Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ruddy drop of manly blood Last Line: Are through thy friendship fair. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by DOROTHY GRAFLY Poem Text First Line: O friend, we sit together, and the room Last Line: I bid thee open thy soul and give it liberty. Subject(s): Friendship; Wellesley College FRIENDSHIP, by EDOUARD GRENIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all the world I know the sweetest thing Last Line: Where all is pure. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou foolish hafiz! Say, do churls Last Line: To the noblest, or to none. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: I shall remember the tenderness Last Line: Out of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of friendship Last Line: Since, yesterday, you passed with lowered eyes! Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships FRIENDSHIP, by JEAN MAROT Poem Source First Line: In deep distress one sees Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, wail of grief can equal answer win Last Line: And friendship mourns her still imperfect art. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FRIENDSHIP, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The human soul that crieth at thy gates Last Line: And that is dead. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For your sovereign sake, my friend Last Line: "shadows still thou dost pursue." Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by SEM TOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What treasure greater than a friend Last Line: Betrays affections won. Alternate Author Name(s): Santob De Carrion; Santo, Don Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Judaism FRIENDSHIP, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've discovered a way to stay friends forever Last Line: And you do it Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most holy friendship! Wheresoe'er Last Line: That I will deem thee truth, so lovely is thy might! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Last Line: To satisfy my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary FRIENDSHIP, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She came, fair friendship came, with aspect bland Last Line: "and share sublime, celestial bliss with me." Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP (1), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think awhile of love, and while I think Last Line: Insep'rably. Subject(s): Friendship; Love FRIENDSHIP (2), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we are partners in such legal trade Last Line: For current stock and not for dividends. Subject(s): Friendship; Merchants; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes FRIENDSHIP AFTER LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Last Line: And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE, by JOHN LYLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For all things, friendship excepted Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could coldly sum the love Last Line: When now by human fate alloyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Friendship; Love FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I sighed for pleasure past Last Line: Must from that dream awaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN EPHELIA AND ARDELIA, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What friendship is, ardelia, show Last Line: But 'tis to love, as I love you. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP BROKEN, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We chose the faint chill morning, friend and friend Last Line: Aware of naught but of the thing withdrawn. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP IN ABSENCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chance or cruel business parts us two Last Line: It sits and sings, and so orecomes its rage. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation FRIENDSHIP IN PERFECTION, by ANDREW MICHAEL RAMSAY Poem Text First Line: Ye glowing seraphs, that now breathe above Last Line: And turn all light, all love, as well as I. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Passion FRIENDSHIP IS A JEWEL RARE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Acquaintances we oft admire Last Line: In blackness of the night. Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships FRIENDSHIP IS A NAME, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE CHINA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP IS NOT LIKE LOVE, by EDWARD LUCAS WHITE Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP TOWN, by ELIZABETH ABBEY EVERETT Poem Text First Line: In the meadows near life's highway Last Line: Glow the lights of friendship town. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP'S BLACK AND WHITE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Romance is writ for me with many names Last Line: Named with one name that needs not be afraid. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP'S LIKE MUSIC, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP: AN ODE, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP; A SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood Last Line: And either lived in either's heart and speech. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more Last Line: And feel a kind of regret. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs FRIENDSHIP?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in the bitterest woes of life Last Line: To learn that they are not worth our love. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Pity; Tears FRIENDSHIPS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Like tropic isles within life's sea Last Line: While pilgrims here below. Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: There is a window in this magic house Last Line: Running away -- knowing us one too few! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Magic; New England; Separation; Isolation FROM SUNSET TO STAR RISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not Last Line: On sometime summer's unreturning track. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Night FROM THE HIGHWAY, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: For a gift - the grip of your hand Subject(s): Friendship FUTURE DAYS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eager eyes I fondly gaze Last Line: What now is and what has been. Subject(s): Friendship; Future GEORGE A. CARR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O playmate of the far-away Last Line: We played beneath the apple trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Parting GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise GEORGE ROLLESTON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead art thou? No more dead than was the maid Last Line: Or in thy loving change! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Praise; Rolleston, George (1829-1882); Dead, The GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BROTHER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source Last Line: In so many ways %he saved time Subject(s): Brothers; Friendship; Homosexuality; Relationships GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When you wish you could get away Last Line: To a quiet afternoon, nothing %unusual, nothing much %going on. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love GHAZAL VARIATION #3, by SHANE BOOK Poem Source First Line: You were righ dick, %traffic from missoula's light Last Line: It's all you, dick. %we can stop right there Subject(s): Friendship; Memory GHAZALS: HOMAGE TO GHALIB (10), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death Last Line: Streaming above me like the graph of a cry Variant Title(s): Ghazals (homage To Ghalib) 7/24/68: I Subject(s): Friendship GIN, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Friendship; Relationships GIRAFFE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I invite the giraffe to dine Last Line: A meal of bananas, figs, and dates Subject(s): Friendship GIRAFFE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I invite the giraffe to dine Subject(s): Friendship GIRL FRIEND, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I first saw her a few summers ago I felt Last Line: A nursery for new stars. %and then. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Photography And Photographers; Women GIRL FRIEND POEM: 2, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake ye and come to our house Last Line: Everybody has somebody %for whom to cry Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Women GIRL FRIEND POEM: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was white and flown Last Line: The light. And the peaches fell down around us Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Laughter; Play GIRL FRIEND POEM: 4, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Together they will marry the man Last Line: The public is in ecstasy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls GIRL FRIEND POEM: 5, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The brunette is boarding a train Last Line: We tell what we've been reading Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls GIRL FRIEND POEM: 6, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I snap my fingers Last Line: Will be brushing these very tracks away Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Trances GIRLISH REMINISCENCES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in a nest of flowers Last Line: Where death nor sorrows come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Girls; Past GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT NOW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than fame and more than money Subject(s): Friendship GLORY HOLES FOR LARRY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not only young guys dying of aids Last Line: To the joys of gay sex Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Aids (disease); Old Age; Friendship GLOSSTR LEAD, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning from his bed lord Last Line: A beautiful record will never be destroyed Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Relationships GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE, by WHITNEY MILES Poem Source First Line: Never give up on %who you think you can be Last Line: Be true to who you are Subject(s): Friendship; Love GOD'S MERCY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, one faith endureth still Last Line: Be with us, foe and friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; God; Mercy; Belief; Creed GONE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the little chambers of my heart Last Line: One door alone is shut, one chamber still. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Friendship; Loss GOOD LUCK CHARM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Our hike all done this perfect morning, Last Line: Like you in my palm when you take away %the dark night, bringing me %all the luck I need. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love GOOD NIGHT, by HESTER A. BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: Good night, dear friend! I say good night to thee Last Line: To hear again her low good-night! Good-night! Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting GOOD TIDINGS TO ZION, by THOMAS KELLY (1769-1855) Poem Text First Line: On the mountain's top appearing Last Line: End in everlasting rest. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Jews; Zionism; Judaism GRACE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: If we could go back twenty years Last Line: Each moment we have so full of grace Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love GRACIOUS PAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In june 'tis good to lie beneath a tree Subject(s): Friendship GREATER LOVE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amyntor, son of philip, lies Last Line: He died to shield a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Friendship; Sacrifices GREETING, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The road is long 'tween here and there Last Line: A word of greeting to you, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Friendship; Greetings GUADARRAMA, IS IT YOU, OLD FRIEND?, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Canter with me into your body Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Friendship; Spain HABITS, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the avenue's asphalt the moon makes a lake Last Line: If no one's waiting, there's no point in that Subject(s): Friendship; Habits HAPPINESS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in the month of may Last Line: "if virtue guides thee here!" Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Virtue; Dead, The; Joy; Delight HARBALORIFA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So many forms of existence! So many creatures Last Line: The wanderer who strikes with his cane Subject(s): Friendship HARRY CAREY'S REPLY TO THE LIBELLING GENTRY, ANGRY AT HIS WELFARE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With an honest old friend and a merry old song Last Line: For the more we are envied, the higher we rise. Subject(s): Envy; Friendship HAVE A HAPPY - EVERYTHING!, by COLLIN MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: May you always know Subject(s): Friendship; Love HE LAUGHED DERISION WHEN HIS FOES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship HE WHO GETS AND NEVER GIVES, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship HEART AND SOUL, by MIRIAM VERMILYA Poem Source First Line: Fourteen and twelve, we were the despair Last Line: And soul...Her good right hand. Variant Title(s): Heart And Sou Subject(s): Children; Friendship HEARTS-OF-GOLD, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity, if true, / what the pewterer said Last Line: Hearts-of-gold and good fellows! Subject(s): Friendship HEAVEN FOR STANLEY, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For his birthday, I gave stanley a hyacinth bean Subject(s): Friendship HELSINKI, 1940, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exploding, shattering, burning / big lights in the sky Last Line: All of whom really felt like living Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Neighbors; Visiting HENRY AND MARY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry was a young king Subject(s): Friendship HENRY AND MARY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry was a young king Last Line: As down the garden walks we go Subject(s): Friendship HENRY W. GRADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True-hearted friend of all Last Line: With the white splendor of thy prophecies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HERE BELOW, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here below the lilacs soon are past Last Line: Evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Friendship HERE IS MUSIC: 20, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: How do I know I love you? Last Line: Bodily death ... But never sad satiety. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships HERE IS MUSIC: CHANT ROYAL; FOR JOHN LAWRENCE SMITH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Long-since, as one who scents at crucial stage Last Line: Large debt to loved lieutenant, loyal, steadfast, true. Subject(s): Friendship HERE IS MUSIC: MY LORDS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My lords of life and death, if, suppliant, I Last Line: Had ta'en, fulfill'd: who, too, had lost false friends for truth. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends HERE IS MUSIC: RICHARD FAITHFULL; IN MEMORIAM (VIRELAI), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Brave bells of bruges, you bring Last Line: Faithfull in deed as name. Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Love; Belief; Creed HERE'S TO THE FOUR HINGES OF FRIENDSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and when you drink, drink with me" Subject(s): Friendship HERO WANTED, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boy's heart is a light heart Last Line: And hero to a boy! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HIS BOYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going, billy, old fellow, hist, lad! Don't make any noise Last Line: I'm happy. My boys, god bless 'em! . . . It had to be them or me. Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France HIS IMAGINARY FRIEND, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I meet her twice a day for tea Last Line: Before I consummate my love %in kleenex facial tissue Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Love HIS MOTHER STERPPED ABOUT HER KITCHEN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Jews; Friendship; Bullies; Jobs; Relatives; Judaism HOBOKEN, 1825, by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN Poem Text First Line: To the dark, bloody shore of hoboken is gliding Last Line: The flowers of the nightshade his temples around. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Hoboken, New Jersey; Fair Weather Friends HOLDING THE CUP, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In my rush to dress for your father's Last Line: His last gulp of air, his body embraced like a cup. %you were gathering up the pieces. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love HOME, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Let the scholar turn from study and the sailor Last Line: Home is where the heart is, and my heart is all with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship; Hearts; Home; Love HOME FIRE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Whether on the boulevard or gravel backroad, Last Line: Of night, without waving or giving myself away, %and return with my words burning like a fire in the Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love HOPE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I'm lonely Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Friendship; Negroes; American Blacks HOPE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rose up on his dying bed / and asked for fish Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Friendship; Negroes; American Blacks HOPE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I'm lonely Last Line: Keep thinkin' I won't be lonely %by and by Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Friendship HORSE (1), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A / quarter horse, no rider Last Line: To knock me off? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Deception; Friendship; Horses HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Does he see himself reflected in me? In these hours, does he see the face of his hours reflected? Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Time HOUSE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Should be more than %my grandmother's quilt Last Line: Raisins on the linoleum %make the house %the land of milk and honey. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love HOUSE HOLDER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: To live within these bounds Last Line: I want to stand in that kitchen with the blue tile %and feel my mouth water Subject(s): Appalachia; Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love; Women HOW I AM, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I talk to my friends I pretend I am standing on the wings Subject(s): Friendship; Illness HOW TO CONTINUE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there once was a woman Subject(s): Friendship HULLO!', by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you see a man in woe Last Line: Then the souls you've cheered will know %who ye be, an' say 'hullo!' Subject(s): Friendship HUNTING: EPILOGUE. TO HAVE A FAITHFUL FRIEND, by JULIANA BERNERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A faithful friend would I fain find Last Line: Send us spending in our purse! Alternate Author Name(s): Barnes, Juliana; Bernes, Julia Subject(s): Friendship HYMN FOR A FRIEND IN HIS LOSSES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We seek to plumb death Last Line: Made it to and from the other shore. Praise him Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss I CANNOT FORGET YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always Subject(s): Friendship; Memory I DESCENDED TO THE VALLEY TO GATHER ORCHIDS, by RYOSA Poem Source Last Line: Tears streaming down my cheeks Subject(s): Friendship; Zen Buddhism I GO, SWEET FRIENDS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go, sweet friends! Yet think of me Last Line: Think of me then! I go, I go! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love; Spring I HAVE A FRIEND, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship I HAVE FRIENDS, by CHERYL THORNTON Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship I HAVE SOME FRIENDS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have some friends, some worthy friends Last Line: The finish to my tale. Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France I KNEW A MAN IN EARLY DAYS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I love him, and love him still Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Friendship I KNOW A MAN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As I sd to my Subject(s): Friendship; Driving & Drivers I KNOW A MAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: I know a man who thinks he's poor Last Line: And three good books to read Subject(s): Friendship; Books I LIKE THE NEW FRIENDS BEST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friends are 'most too home-like now Last Line: I like the new friends best. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Friendship I LOVE MY FELLOW MAN, by INEZ FOOTE Poem Text Last Line: For I must do what I can. Subject(s): Friendship I OFTEN THINK, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I often think of life's dark days Last Line: When the great war was through. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends I SHALL NOT CARE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: While any lonely dog I meet Last Line: I shall not care. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Sympathy; Joy; Delight; Empathy I TURN TO THEE IN TIME OF NEED, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Friendship I WILL OBEY THE STRICTEST LAW OF LOVE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For all that's true & beautiful & good Subject(s): Friendship I WISH FOR YOU, by JEANNE R. KAPSAK Poem Source Last Line: But that they become real %and very satisfying Subject(s): Friendship; Love I WONDER AT THE WIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder at the wind-he lifts Last Line: A bouquet for a friend! Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Childhood I WOULD NOT FACE THE ARTICLE OF DEATH, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship IDEAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all my gentle friends had gone Last Line: "and where atlantis, where theleme?" Subject(s): Friendship IDYLL 8. FRIENDSHIP, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is love or friendship when returned Last Line: Him living loved, for his sake gladly died! Subject(s): Friendship IF FAULTS ARISE, MY FRIEND WILL SEND FOR ME, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the sky Subject(s): Friendship IF I COULD MAKE A FRIEND, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could make a friend today Last Line: "I know I made a friend today." Subject(s): Friendship IF I HAD KNOWN, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had known what trouble you were bearing Last Line: If I had known. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Friendship IF NEEDS BE, by CHARLOTTE MANSFIELD Poem Source First Line: To moisten with one's tears the other's brow Subject(s): Friendship IF THE DEAD IN THEIR STATE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If the dead in their state could only see Last Line: And missed by family and friends Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Friendship IF THE OCEAN WAS MILK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship IF THOU HAST LOST A FRIEND, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Let pride no more be heard Subject(s): Friendship; Pride; Loss; Forgiveness IF YOU HAD A FRIEND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you had a friend strong, simple, true Last Line: You haven't? I wonder . . . What of god? Subject(s): Bohemians; Friendship; Paris, France IF YOU KNOW / WHO YOU ARE AND, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source Last Line: Yours %if you ask Subject(s): Friendship; Love IF YOU SAID YOU WOULD COME WITH ME, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In town it was very urban but in the country cows were covering the hills Subject(s): Friendship IMAGINARY FRIENDS, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was positive there were Last Line: Pontius the pilot, and of course the flea Subject(s): Friendship; Imagination IMITATING THE OLD POEMS, by PAO CHAO Poem Source First Line: Many strange mountains in shu and han Last Line: It is the nature of the stone to be firm; %do not forsake the friendship we once had! Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): Friendship IMPOSSIBILITIES, TO HIS FRIEND, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My faithful friend, if you can see Last Line: Her love me once, who now hates me. Subject(s): Friendship; Love IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism IMPRESSIONS, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: A flight of fancy, heeding neither time nor space Last Line: We may forget, but life is nevermore the same. Subject(s): Friendship IMPROVISED SONG OF JOY, by TAKOMAQ Poem Source First Line: The lands around my dwelling Last Line: Make my house grand Subject(s): Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans IN A FRIEND'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years have you been known to me, my friend Last Line: You stand revealed, as earlier you were not. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Soul IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN AN ALBUM, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many have written on this book's fair pages Last Line: God will arrange as pearls on thy life's band. Subject(s): Friendship IN ARCADIE, by JOSEPHINE AUGUSTA CASS Poem Text First Line: How swift the days fled, one by one Last Line: In arcadie! Subject(s): Arcadians; Friendship; Wellesley College; Arcadia IN DARKNESS I SEE THEM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Strange how I am haunted by some Last Line: Sunlight dancing at my beck and call %although there's nobody at all. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Ghosts; Supernatural IN LIFE, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE, by JUDY LESAGE Poem Source Last Line: The greatest success of all Subject(s): Friendship; Love IN MAY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends whom I kiss'd and caress'd of yore Last Line: O beauteous world, I hate thee anew! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Spring IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 10, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the noise about thy keel Last Line: Should toss with tangle and with shells. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 100, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climb the hill: from end to end Last Line: I think once more he seems to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Memory Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 102, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We leave the well-beloved place Last Line: To one pure image of regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 103, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that last night before we went Last Line: That landlike slept along the deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 105, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight ungather'd let us leave Last Line: The closing cycle rich in good. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 107, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the day when he was born Last Line: And sing the songs he loved to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 108, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not shut me from my kind Last Line: Whatever wisdom sleep with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 109, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart-affluence in discursive talk Last Line: Nor let thy wisdom make me wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 110, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy converse drew us with delight Last Line: That spurs an imitative will. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 111, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The churl in spirit, up or down Last Line: And soil'd with all ignoble use. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 112, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High wisdom holds my wisdom less Last Line: In vassal tides that follow'd thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 113, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis held that sorrow makes us wise Last Line: And undulations to and fro. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 114, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who loves not knowledge? Who shall rail Last Line: In reverence and in charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 116, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, then, regret for buried time Last Line: Than some strong bond which is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 117, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O days and hours, your work is this Last Line: And all the courses of the suns. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Separation Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 118, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contemplate all this work of time Last Line: And let the ape and tiger die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 12, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, as a dove when up she springs Last Line: That I have been an hour away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 120, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trust I have not wasted breath Last Line: But I was born to other things. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 121, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad hesper o'er the buried sun Last Line: Thy place is changed; thou art the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 122, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, wast thou with me, dearest, then Last Line: And every thought breaks out a rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 123, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There rolls the deep where grew the tree Last Line: I cannot think the thing farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (7) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 125, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever I have said or sung Last Line: A thousand pulses dancing, fail. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 126, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is and was my lord and king Last Line: In the deep night, that all is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): My Lord And King;in Memoriam (8) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 127, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all is well, tho' faith and form Last Line: And smilest, knowing all is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 128, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love that rose on stronger wings Last Line: Is toil cooperant to an end. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 130, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is on the rolling air Last Line: I shall not lose thee tho' I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): All Is Well Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 131, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O living will that shalt endure Last Line: And all we flow from, soul in soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 15, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the winds begin to rise Last Line: A looming bastion fringed with fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (4) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 16, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What words are these have fallen from me? Last Line: And mingles all without a plan? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 17, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou comest, much wept for; such a breeze Last Line: Till all my widow'd race be run. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 18, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well, 'tis something; we may stand Last Line: The words that are not heard again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 19, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The danube to the severn gave Last Line: And I can speak a little then. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Hushing Of The Wye Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 20, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lesser griefs that may be said Last Line: How good! Now kind! And he is gone.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 21, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing to him that rests below Last Line: Because her brood is stolen away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 22, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path by which we twain did go Last Line: The shadow sits and waits for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 23, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut Last Line: To many a flute of arcady. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 24, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And was the day of my delight Last Line: We saw not when we moved therein? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 25, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that this was life - the track Last Line: And part it, giving half to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Daily Burden;the Dead Friend Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 26, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still onward winds the weary way Last Line: To shroud me from my proper scorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 29, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With such compelling cause to grieve Last Line: Before their time? They too will die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 3, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old sorrow, cruel fellowship Last Line: Upon the threshold of the mind? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 31, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lazarus left his charnel-cave Last Line: The lips of that evangelist. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 32, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes are homes of silent prayer Last Line: Or is there blessedness like theirs? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Mary Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 33, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that after toil and storm Last Line: And even for want of such a type. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 34, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own dim life should teach me this Last Line: Of vacant darkness and to cease. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Life Shall Live For Evermore Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 35, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet if some voice that man could trust Last Line: And bask'd and batten'd in the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 36, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' truths in manhood darkly join Last Line: In roarings round the coral reef. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Word;the Word Incarnate Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 37, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Urania speaks with darkened brow Last Line: And darken'd sanctities with song.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 38, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With weary steps I loiter on Last Line: Not all ungrateful to thine ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 39, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old warder of these buried bones Last Line: And passes into gloom again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 4, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep I give my powers away Last Line: Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 40, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could we forget the widow'd hour Last Line: And thine in undiscover'd lands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 41, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy spirit ere our fatal loss Last Line: But evermore a life behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 42, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I vex my heart with fancies dim Last Line: A truth from one that loves and knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 44, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fares it with the happy dead? Last Line: In that high place, and tell thee all. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 45, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby new to earth and sky Last Line: Beyond the second birth of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 46, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ranging down this lower track Last Line: A rosy warmth from marge to marge. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 48, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If these brief lays, of sorrow born Last Line: Their wings in tears, and skim away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 49, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From art, from nature, from the schools Last Line: The bases of my life in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 50, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be near me when my light is low Last Line: The twilight of eternal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 52, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot love thee as I ought Last Line: When time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 53, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many a father have I seen Last Line: Procuress to the lords of hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 56, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So careful of the type?' but no Last Line: Behind the veil, behind the veil. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 57, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace; come away: the song of woe Last Line: Adieu, adieu,' for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 58, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those sad words I took farewell Last Line: And thou shalt take a nobler leave.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 59, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sorrow, wilt thou live with me Last Line: Could hardly tell what name were thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 6, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One writes, that 'other friends remain' Last Line: And unto me no second friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 60, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past; a soul of nobler tone Last Line: How should he love a thing so low?' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 61, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in thy second state sublime Last Line: The soul of shakespeare love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 62, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' if an eye that's downward cast Last Line: Is matter for a flying smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 63, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet pity for a horse o'er driven Last Line: A higher height, a deeper deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 64, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou look back on what hath been Last Line: Does my old friend remember me?' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 65, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet soul, do with me as thou wilt Last Line: And move thee on to noble ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 66, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You thought my heart too far diseased Last Line: His night of loss is always there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 68, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the down I sink my head Last Line: That foolish sleep transfers to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 69, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream'd there would be spring no more Last Line: The words were hard to understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 70, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see the features right Last Line: Looks thy fair face and makes it still. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 71, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, kinsman thou to death and trance Last Line: The breaker breaking on the beach. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 72, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again Last Line: And hide thy shame beneath the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 73, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many worlds, so much to do Last Line: Of force that would have forged a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Death In Life's Prime Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 75, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave thy praises unexpress'd Last Line: Is wrought with tumult of acclaim. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 76, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take wings of fancy, and ascend Last Line: The ruin'd shells of hollow towers? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 77, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hope is here for modern rhyme Last Line: To utter love more sweet than praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Poet's Tribute Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 79, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than my brother are to me Last Line: As his unlikeness fitted mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 8, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A happy lover who has come Last Line: Or, dying, there at least may die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 80, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any vague desire should arise Last Line: Reach out dead hands to comfort me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 81, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I have said while he was here Last Line: It might have drawn from after-heat.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 84, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I contemplate all alone Last Line: The low beginnings of content? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 85, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This truth came borne with bier and pall Last Line: As not unlike to that of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 86, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet after showers, ambrosial air Last Line: A hundred spirits whisper 'peace.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Evening Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 87, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I past [or, passed] beside the reverend walls Last Line: The bar of michael angelo? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): He Revisits Cambridge;trinity College, Cambridge Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 88, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet Last Line: Will flash along the chords and go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 89, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Witch-elms that counterchange the floor Last Line: And buzzings of the honeyed hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 90, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He tasted love with half his mind Last Line: That cries against my wish for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 91, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rosy plumelets tuft the larch Last Line: And like a finer light in light. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 92, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any vision should reveal Last Line: As often rises ere they rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 93, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not see thee, dare I say Last Line: My ghost may feel that thine is near. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 94, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pure at heart and sound in head Last Line: And hear the household jar within. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Spiritual Communions;spiritual Companionship Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 95, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By night we linger'd on the lawn Last Line: To broaden into boundless day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 97, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love has talk'd with rocks and trees Last Line: I cannot understand; I love.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 98, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You leave us: you will see the rhine Last Line: Of crimson or in emerald rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 99, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Risest thou thus, dim dawn again Last Line: They know me not, but mourn with me Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM HONORE MERCIER, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, true and gentle, kind and brave! Last Line: May never see his like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Courage; Friendship; Heroism; Memory; Mercier, Louis Honore (1840-1894); Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines IN MEMORIAM, A.H., by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had blown away the rain Last Line: Among the very brave, the very true. Variant Title(s): Udite, Si Dolgono Mesti Fringuelli Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Herbert, Auberon Thomas (1876-1916); Memory; Patriotism; World War I; Dead, The; Lucas, 8th Baron; Dingwall, 11th Baron; First World War IN MEMORY OF A FRIEND, by GEORGE W. CASE Poem Text First Line: His life was charmed to all who knew Last Line: He lives always, he is not dead. Subject(s): Friendship; Immortality IN MEMORY OF A. E. C., by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My world is peopled not alone Last Line: Come friends who were and friends who are. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORY OF AGOSTINO ISOLA, OF CAMBRIDGE, WHO DIED 1797, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, o gratitude! Nor let the tears Last Line: "ere we shall look upon thy like again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM, JR., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was all sunshine; in his face Last Line: Trust in his word; thy dead shall rise! Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORY OF TWO FRIENDS: 1. GWALCHAI, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the oft-renewed request Last Line: Tis only here thou sing'st no more. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF TWO FRIENDS: 2. T. LL. T., by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, whose heart, whose muse refined Last Line: This votive wreath of musing song. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HUGHES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the month of june Last Line: To my sad and sorrow-stricken heart down here. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give Last Line: And I want to go back to that place! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF MR. YARKER: MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: And have we lost another friend? Last Line: Hark to the tolling bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues IN SORROW'S NAME, by JULIA SARGENT VISHER Poem Text First Line: Our friendship should endure forever Last Line: Is this, that we have wept together. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE FIELDS OF SPRING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship IN THE KITCHEN, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Always uncertain at first, slowly we circle, Last Line: I'll sweeten it with jam, and we'll let %the crumbs fall where they may. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love IN THE OLD WAY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In the old way of men and women, we learn silence from our fathers. Last Line: Would my children run to me, %glad I've come out at last? Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love IN THE PURSUIT OF ANY DREAM, by LYNN BROWN Poem Source Last Line: What a stronger person %you will have become Subject(s): Friendship; Love IN THE TWILIGHT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not bed-time yet! The night-winds blow Last Line: Good-night! And not good-by! Variant Title(s): Before The Curfew Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The INTER SOLADES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over a pipe the angel of conversation Last Line: Over a pipe. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Friendship; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes INTERSPECIES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching a residency in cincinnati Subject(s): Loneliness; Alienation (social Psychology); Friendship; Zoos; Estrangement; Outcasts INTO LIFE'S BITTER CUP TRUE FRIENDSHIP DROPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship INTOXICATED, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine of life? I have drunk of it! Last Line: I do all! — I have drunk of the wine of life. Subject(s): Friendship; Life IRIS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Iris is writing a poem while I read the paper at her apartment Last Line: But she will. %they always do Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Poetry And Poets ISSEI, THE JAPANESE LADY, by JESSICA KAWASUNA SAIKI Poem Source First Line: She wears brown as a carapace, annonymous as Last Line: The paper screen, the brown Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Conversation; Culture Conflict; Friendship; Guests IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met in provincetown two years ago Subject(s): Morley, Hilda (1916-1998); Friendship; War JAFFAR, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jaffar, the barmecide, the good vizier Last Line: "exclaimed, ""this, too, I owe to thee, jaffar!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: A GRACEFUL DIVINE, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The following day, about th' eleventh hour Last Line: The doctor bowed, and gracefully retired. Variant Title(s): Jane Hollybrand; Or, Virtue Rewarded Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Visiting JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: THE GOOD YOUNG SQUIRE, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: It hap'd a gentle youth - a lordly heir Last Line: And forth they'd come. Subject(s): Clergy; Friendship; Guests; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Visiting JASON THE REAL, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I was a real guy Last Line: That is how one earns a name / like jason the real Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Reality JEFFRIES WYMAN; DIED SEPTEMBER 4, 1874, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wisest man could ask no more of fate Last Line: Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burn. Subject(s): Friendship; Wyman, Jeffries (1814-1874) JESSIE'S FRIEND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little jessie, darling pet Last Line: Come, oh come to me.' Subject(s): Friendship; Jesus Christ JOHN MCKEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John mckeen, in his rusty dress Last Line: And the old-time fiddle-tunes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past JOSEPH WINLOCK; DIED JUNE 11, 1875, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient will Last Line: Unprescient, through god's mercy, of his own! Subject(s): Friendship; Winlock, Joseph (1826-1875) JOURNEY IN THE FUTURE, by EMMANUEL PIERREUSE Poem Source First Line: Music enchants the refreshing ferns of the windows Subject(s): Friendship; Love JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS, by DE FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you are right, dear Last Line: If you but understood. Subject(s): Friendship; Good KARL BITTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O multitude of the untimely dead Last Line: With grateful joy that such a soul should be. Subject(s): Bitter, Karl Theodore (1867-1915); Friendship KEEP BELIEVING IN YOURSELF AND YOUR SPECIAL DREAMS, by DEANNA BEISSER Poem Source First Line: There may be days Last Line: Are meant to come true for you Subject(s): Friendship; Love KEEPING WATCH, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Between the old friends I hadn't Last Line: Headed for home. It's about time Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Change; Friendship; Past; Talk KIM, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Kim's getting off the heroin Last Line: Like a feather that cannot fight on its way down Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Friendship; Girls KING AND PEOPLE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: In the tumultuary life of princes Last Line: Firm are the feet that tread the ancient ways. Subject(s): Friendship KISSES FROM THE MOON, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship KNOWLEDGE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because she stepped into my heart one day Last Line: When the well beloved has gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship KNOWLEDGE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known sorrow -- therefore I Last Line: Seems merriment to one heart suffering. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship L.E.L.'S LAST QUESTION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think of me as I think of you Last Line: Do you think of me as I think of you? Subject(s): Friendship; Landon, Leitia Elizabeth (1801-1838) LA JEUNESSE N'A QU'UN TEMPS, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanned by twenty summers' sun Last Line: Youth is only of to-day! Subject(s): Friendship; Youth LA NOTTE, by RICHARD CECIL Poem Source First Line: I barged into a crowded room Last Line: Starring in the films of our separate lives Subject(s): Friendship LA VACHE QUI RIT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Please, some dignity! Sorrow, get back up on your throne Last Line: There's a tear dropping from my nose and I must wipe it Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships LANDSCAPE WITH TWO GRAVES AND AN ASSYRIAN HOUND, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Get up Last Line: Get up, so you can hear the assyrian hound %howling Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves LANGUAGE AS SELF-DEFENSE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downsizing, his boss calls firing my friend Last Line: I've got to go, things I've got to do, %and tell him, it'll all work out, I promise you Subject(s): Friendship LAST FRIENDS, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come to my country, but not with the hope Last Line: For the hills of my country remember it yet! Subject(s): Friendship; Homecoming; Ireland LAST NIGHT, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard the winds rejoice Last Line: Mewed up in the streets of towns. Subject(s): Friendship LAST OF BEBE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who traded recipes with haldeman? Last Line: With memories, singing like an offshore %banker sleep, mi camarada Subject(s): Friendship; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Rebozo, Charles Gregory (bebe) (1912-98); White House (washington, D.c.) LES AVEUGLES; TO P.T.A., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: As blind folk groping in a barren land Last Line: To our sure haven, down the great white road. Subject(s): Angels; Friendship; Mercy LESTER'S CALLING, by GLENN MCKEE Poem Source First Line: In the 'hey, you there!' of the moment Last Line: He knelt was his love for this poor pig Subject(s): Friendship; Love LET'S ASSUME IT HAPPENED, by SIGMAN BYRD Poem Source First Line: That green, smoldering afternoon Last Line: Blind, unprecedented, %like all exceptions to the rule Subject(s): Arizona; Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Politics LET'S BE FRIENDS AG'IN, by FAY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: So now, ye're my enemy, air ye Last Line: Holy jasus! You're claspin' my hand! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Friendship; Clemency LETTER, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Friends %don't look for me Last Line: The diseased me, %in the heavy snow Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Letters; Writing And Writers LETTER FROM SICILY, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We haven't eaten the grape Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Friendship LETTER TO A FRIEND, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Come soon Subject(s): Friendship LETTER TO CAREL FABRITIUS, OCTOBER 1654, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Butcher, baker, silversmith, %cobbler, miller, carpenter, painter Last Line: Maybe we were there together Subject(s): Absence; Art And Artists; Friendship; Paintings And Painters; Schools LETTER TO HARRY HINDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear harry hinde, %if you've a mind Last Line: So-yours quite sincerely Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Paintings And Painters LETTER TO JAN LIEVENS, 1633, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Bulbs sprout in the barrel on long journeys Last Line: My friend: commissions and beauty and light Subject(s): Friendship; Letters LETTER TO MISS E.B. AT BATH, by MARY SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: To doggerel now I turn my pen Last Line: Is the sincere wish of yours &c. Subject(s): Bath, England; Friendship LIEUTENANT ADOLPHUS W. GREELEY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Genial companion of my army days Last Line: "and win ""the victory of endurance born." Subject(s): Friendship; Greely, Adolphus Washington (1844-1935); Heroism; Military; Heroes; Heroines LIFE YOU SAVED, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The day your friends jumped into the pickup, Last Line: I had forgotten how good the air tastes %when we think it's our last breath. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love LIFE'S SECRETS, by ELIZA TIMBERLAKE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The dreams of youth to ripe fruition never came Last Line: The secrets of life's day with me abide. Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Secrets LIKE THE NEW FRIENDS BEST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't talk to me o' old time friends Last Line: I like the new friends best. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Friendship LILACS, by ROSE TILLOTSON Poem Text First Line: A friend had failed me in some little thing Last Line: With purple lilacs, drenched in spring-sweet rain. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce Last Line: After eveything possible had been said and done Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity LINES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Portentous sound! Mysteriously Last Line: Tis very kine in you to sing for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Gratitude LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin Last Line: The grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LINES IN AN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Fairy voices, whisper to me Last Line: Drop your veil of charity. Subject(s): Autographs; Friendship; Poetry & Poets LINES ON MOISHE NADIR-REDIVIVUS, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halleluja! / I sing to you my beloved friend Last Line: Halleluja! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The LINES SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. JOHN WHITELAW, DIED DECEMBER 3, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once dear companion of my early youth Last Line: Peace to thy ashes, peace; dear friend, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise LINES TO HANNAH AND PHOEBE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known you so long, and have lov'd you so well Last Line: By dividing our sorrows it lessens them too. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAD OF 'THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent or present, still to thee Last Line: Her name immortally with thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship LITTLE CUCKOLD, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The cuckold with her smiling face Last Line: Prays no harm may come to these Subject(s): Betrayal; Friendship; Sin LITTLE ELEGY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withouten you Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The LITTLE ELEGY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withouten you Last Line: Or power to sing; %or anything %be kind, or fair, %and you nowhere Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship LIVES OF A POET: FOUR LETTERS TO HAYDEN CARRUTH, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: A friend has sent me Last Line: To teach me to live, to love Subject(s): Friendship; Gratitude; Love; Poetry And Poets LIVING EPITAPH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I pass out and my time is spent Subject(s): Friendship LONELINESS, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Still, still, stillness Subject(s): Friendship LONELY MONDAY, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I would go round and round Subject(s): Friendship LONESOME, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Lonesome all alone Subject(s): Friendship LOSING A BREAST: PRAYER BEFORE SURGERY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In another time and place Last Line: How can you know the long, the beautiful hunger? Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love LOST CHILD, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: With the moon rising like a hot exclamation Last Line: Or something, looking back just once %as she turns to go. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love LOST FRIEND, by PATON H. HOGE Poem Source First Line: I lost a friend the other day Subject(s): Friendship LOST FRIEND, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend he was; my friend from all the rest Subject(s): Friendship LOVE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We two that planets erst had been Last Line: Revolve about one centre. Variant Title(s): Friendship Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Stars LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is like the wild rose-briar Last Line: He still may leave thy garland green. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): "love Is Like The Wild Rose Briar""; Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM LEGGETT Poem Source First Line: The birds, when winter shades the sky Subject(s): Friendship LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While from the skies the ruddy sun descends Last Line: He shall adorn my songs, and tune my voice to love. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Singing & Singers; Sun; Youth LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP OPPOSITE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her attachment may differ from yours in degree Last Line: You must lower down your state to hers. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVE IN THE GUISE OF FRIENDSHIP, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your friendship much can make me blest Last Line: The very friend I sought. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVE UNCOMMANDED, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extraordinary. Our friends Last Line: When they rest upon the waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVE'S GREETING, by KATHERINE B. BUSHLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh beauty of nature's divine solitudes Last Line: And in our hearts forever dwells. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship LOVE'S RULE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How soon hath sped this fadeless summer day! Last Line: The day we first submitted to love's rule! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVING THE CONFIDANTS, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Pretend that some of us Last Line: By the presence of a friend Subject(s): Friendship LULLABY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This hammock, slung between two trees, exists Last Line: A little longer, voices raised against the air Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Hammocks LURE OF THE BLACK HILLS, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: The hills are calling me today Last Line: Dear dusky hills, I love you so. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 44, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship, love, philosopher's stone Last Line: But, alas, discovered them never. Subject(s): Friendship; Love MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MARGARET ADAMS FROM ST. KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Margaret-my love, what would I do Last Line: Of tetanus at eight days. I can't imagine how they stayed. Mairi Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAKE FRIENDS, by ALI IBN ABU TALIB Poem Text First Line: He who has a thousand friends Last Line: Shall meet him everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Ali Ben Abu Taleb; Ali Ibn Abi; Ali Variant Title(s): Friends And Enemies Subject(s): Friendship; Religion; Theology MAKING FRIENDS, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: The fine art of forming friendships Last Line: Ev'ry day a glad new year. Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The MAKING OF FRIENDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped Last Line: And the joy of this world, when you've summed %it all up, is found in the making of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship MANGIA ITALIANO WITH STEVE, by MICHAEL CASTRO Poem Source First Line: South side cheap pasta eats Last Line: Free music, the only music %that's worth it' Subject(s): Chaos; Friendship MARGARET AND DUSTY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret wrote a letter Last Line: Like those two friends of mine. Subject(s): Friendship MARGE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, friend, you got troubles? Like it's Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Old Age; Dead, The MARMALADE MAN MAKES A DANCE TO MEND US, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger, sunflowers, king of cats Last Line: Dancing starts where fighting ends Subject(s): Friendship MARYETTE MYERS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you sympathizing friends, wherever you may be Last Line: He loved this handsome maryette, the lily of the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Friendship MASTER TEACHER HOLDS HIS CLASS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Think long, let the root of it work Last Line: Has wound a path to the bone, you can walk %beside me and think a little longer. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MAY AND DEATH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish that when you died last may Last Line: Its drop comes from my heart, that's all. Subject(s): Cousins; Friendship MAY LIFE'S GREATEST GIFTS ALWAYS BE YOURS, by COLLIN MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Happiness. Deep down within Last Line: And dreams. That do their best to come true Subject(s): Friendship; Love MAY MOON, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The may moon Last Line: --one thrush, a little lark, that's better-- %and violins. Bring up some more small rivers! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Friendship; Guests; Music And Musicians; Parties MAY THE BOND OF FRIENDSHIP ALWAYS BE HELD IN HONOUR, by SIMON DACH Poem Source First Line: What so adorns our being Last Line: I love you more, my brothers %than all earth's treasury Subject(s): Friendship MAY TO-MORROW BRING YOU EVERY DREAM IN YOUR HEART, by MELISSA OSOSKI Poem Source First Line: Follow you heart Last Line: Believe in tomorrow, for it holds the key %to your dreams Subject(s): Friendship; Love MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 1. EPITAPH, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heap not on this mound Last Line: With the dust upon her eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be to her, persephone Last Line: "it is not so dreadful here." Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Persephone; Vassar College; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 3. CHORUS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give away her gowns Last Line: From the closet floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 4. DIRGE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys and girls that held her dear Last Line: All you loved of her lies here. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 5. ELEGY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bury your big eyes Last Line: Beats the golden bird no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Vassar College; Dead, The; Burials MEMORIAL TO D.C.: PROLOGUE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, loveliest throat of all sweet throats Last Line: I write you little elegies! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIES, by HATTIE JOSEPHINE HODGSON Poem Text First Line: There are no friends like the old friends Last Line: There is nothing but memories left. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Memory; Past MEMORIES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ships...They go,' said murphy, 'like a spent pay-roll Last Line: "an' the times a man remembers . . . They're the best times of all!" Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Ships & Shipping; Time MEN OF GOTHAM, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seamen three! What men be ye? Last Line: And our ballast is old wine. %and your ballast is old wine Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Friendship MENTOR, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Text First Line: Be strange, be strong, incontinent, be glum Last Line: Of dying and loud crying comes, be not. Subject(s): Advice; Friendship MERRY PIEMAN'S SONG, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are the cake of my endeavor, and my jelly-roll ...' Subject(s): Friendship MILLIONS OF STRAWBERRIES, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marcia and I went over the curve Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Strawberries MILLIONS OF STRAWBERRIES, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marcia and I went over the curve Last Line: Eating our way down Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Strawberries MIRAGE (COPIED FROM AN OLD FLY-LEAF), by A. S. R. Poem Text First Line: We'll read that book, we'll sing that song Last Line: Remain to haunt us — unfulfilled. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy MISERY IS WHEN YOUR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Friendship MISS FRASER'S ALBUM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My album's open; come and see Last Line: One blended whole combining Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Picture Books MISS M.F.H.E.I.I. JONES, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Melissa finnan haddie Subject(s): Friendship MISSING YOU, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: Once we laughed together Subject(s): Friendship MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 5. RENDEZVOUS OF FRIENDS, by THOMAS AVENA Poem Source First Line: Flowers? Dogs! %dogs growling Last Line: How long %until I join you %--lover-- %zum erde Subject(s): Change; Friendship; Nature MONEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had money, money, o! Last Line: My friends are real, though very few. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Money; Fair Weather Friends MONODY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have known him, to have loved him Last Line: That hid the shyest grape. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Sorrow; Sadness MONOLOGUE, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, but since you Subject(s): Transience; Friendship; Careers; Farewell; Disappointment; Impermanence; Parting MOON / HAVE YOU MET MY MOTHER, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship MORS ET VITA, by SAMUEL WADDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not yet what life shall be Last Line: We know not yet. Subject(s): Friendship MORTAL COMBAT, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is because you were my friend Last Line: And be a man like other men. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Discontent; Friendship; Mankind; Dissatisfaction; Human Race MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The true friend is the same Last Line: Is ever prayer of mine! Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Mothers MOVING DAYS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Five blocks away, your tulip trees are as bright Last Line: It was late summer. The trees were threading %their long fingers, leading me away %with their sweet, Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MR. CAREW TO HIS FRIEND, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the hand that hath been us'd to play Last Line: That something more than bodies us combine. Subject(s): Friendship MR. W. H. TO THE POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thanks, dear friend, as always! But, I fear Last Line: And friendship is love's canonized name. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Friendship; Gratitude; Love MULBERRIES, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: They fruit themselves into early june Last Line: Their wheels can take them anywhere Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MUNUSCULUM, by WHEATON H. BREWER Poem Text First Line: Truly your gift was the gift of a friend Last Line: Echoes of you arise and call to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Soldiers MUSIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the tenants of the tomb Last Line: As brightly as its morn and noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Music & Musicians; Peace MUSIC AND FRIENDSHIP, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice is sweet music sweet when every word Last Line: To share that heavenly joy, one dear, dear friend! Subject(s): Friendship; Music & Musicians MUSING ON COMPANIONS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, musing on companions gone Subject(s): Friendship MUSINGS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Floating softly down from cloudland Last Line: Silv'ry as the snows tonight. Subject(s): Friendship MY BACHELOR CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A corpulent man is my bachelor Last Line: On the tears of my bachelor chum. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Friendship; Single People; Tears; Bachelors; Unmarried People MY BEST FRIEND MOVED 2000 MILES AWAY, by TANIA ROCHELLE Poem Source First Line: Even the dogs dislike me today Last Line: I can't remember her without you, kathy Subject(s): Friendship MY BOSOM FRIEND, 'TIS LONG SINCE WE HAVE LOOKED, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship MY DAUGHTER'S FEET, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Years ago, before you stood alone, Last Line: Gretel's crumbs, and gretel, racing %wood and hawk and changeling night. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a story Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Girls; Trees; Dead, The MY DOG JERRY, by H. DENLINGER Poem Text First Line: I have a fine dog, his name is jerry Last Line: By shaking his coat on the floor. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Tails MY FATHER DOESN'T TELL STORIES, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: My father slices a summer tomato on the counter. Last Line: No sun is at my back, bursting its seeds %in my mouth, stretching darkly behind me. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MY FIRST BEST FRIEND, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship MY FIRST BEST FRIEND, by B. LYNNE ZIKA Poem Source First Line: It began in a black velveteen jumper Last Line: As the sky folds the page Subject(s): Friendship MY FOE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My foe? You name yourself, then Last Line: I wave a hand to you, my helpless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Soul MY FRIEND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my friend, o my dearly beloved Last Line: And he cannot for love. Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIEND, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend wears a cheerful smile of his own Last Line: In the best of all company. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIEND, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a friend who battled for the truth Last Line: And rest his rebel heart, and close his eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Complaints MY FRIEND, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a forehead serene and the gait of a queen Last Line: To receive truth's supreme accolade. Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIEND, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tender touch of a gentle hand Last Line: Learn something there no other may know. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is my friend,' I said-- Last Line: "with ""still he is thy friend." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Seasons; Sky MY FRIEND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two days ago with dancing glancing hair Last Line: To-morrow follow so. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIEND THE BEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the bone myth of the cellar Last Line: Her breathing like god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Friendship MY FRIEND'S DIVORCE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want her / to dig up Last Line: They breathe Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIENDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No they will not understand Last Line: But whole Subject(s): Friendship MY FRIENDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No they will not understand Last Line: With you in your small room limbless %but whole Subject(s): Friendship MY GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I own a dog who is a gentleman Last Line: God grant I may be worthy of my dog!' Subject(s): Animals;dogs;friendship;gentility;honesty;loyalty MY HEART WAS COMFORTED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One came and told me suddenly Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend of mine, how goes it Last Line: I am purty tight -- that's all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Kisses; Secrets; Wine MY LITTLE YORKSHIRE TERRIER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little bundle of fluff and fun Last Line: A calm and lovely flame. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones MY MATE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been sittin' starin,' starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots Last Line: To sorter be a farther to 'is kid. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY NEW FRIEND, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shallow voice said, bitterly, 'new friend!' Last Line: "but, ""ah! For years we've waited for this bliss!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Friendship; Heaven; Love; Paradise MY OLD FRIEND, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seems the world was always bright Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Friendship MY OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've a manner all so mellow, Last Line: My old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Time; Youth MY POETS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On was put in the lock-up Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets MY QUARREL WITH LANGUAGE POETRY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Dulsville, as in the after-hours Last Line: And we went out and ate them Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Friendship; Language Poetry MY VERY PARTICULAR FRIEND, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you struck with her figure and face? Last Line: She's my very particular friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Flattery; Friendship NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us Last Line: The beefe is half raw—and the bell rings for dinner! Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress NAETHING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you, sir, this summons I've sent Last Line: And my friendship, by god, when ye've naething. Variant Title(s): Extempore To Gavin Hamilton. Stanzas On Naething Subject(s): Friendship; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids NAN'S BROOCH, by CARL LEGGO Poem Source First Line: My grandmother could never understand how Last Line: I didn't tell carrie. My grandmother never told on me Subject(s): Friendship; Grandparents NANNY TO BESSY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven long winters departed Last Line: And thrice — but ah, let me refrain. Subject(s): Duplicity; Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Shame; Deceit NATURAL DEATH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first my age to die Last Line: Our hands on hers, seeking to hold her and to let her go %and murmured over and over, these are good Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 31ST PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Judge not between two friends, but rather see Last Line: Howe'er thou judge, thou, sure, shalt lose a friend. Subject(s): Friendship NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 6TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A friend is gold; if true, he'll never leave thee Last Line: Yet both without a touchstone may deceive thee. Subject(s): Friendship NEIGHBORS, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: The cobbles live in the house next door Subject(s): Friendship NEVER WILL YOU RETURN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source Last Line: To your brothers, %and to life Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Prisons And Prisoners; Tears NEW FRIENDS AND OLD FRIENDS, by JOSEPH PARRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make new friends, but keep the old Last Line: Those are silver, these are gold. Subject(s): Friendship NEW FRIENDSHIP, by HELEN I. STAPP Poem Text First Line: Quivering, the white fawn / watched from an Last Line: She springs down the pathway to meet him. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips NEW WIFE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: My officemate tells me Last Line: Their days glistening like the salt %in the corners of her mouth. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love NEXT OF KIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows gather round me, while you are in the sun Last Line: Yea, we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Home; Dead, The NIGHT THOUGHTS, SELS., by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Courage; Death; Friendship; Religion NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHTMARE ABBEY: THE MEN OF GOTHAM, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seamen three! What men be ye? Last Line: And your ballast is old wine. Variant Title(s): A Catch;nightmare Abbey: Three Men Of Gotham Subject(s): Friendship NIGHTS OF 1964€”1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art, Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships NO HEIGHTS, by NELLIE GRAY BOURDEAUX Poem Text First Line: She pities me, this placid friend of mine Last Line: Have walked a little space in paradise. Subject(s): Friendship; Pity NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO., by COLLIN MCCARTHY Poem Source Last Line: Is just waiting for you %to make it come true Subject(s): Friendship; Love NO RESURRECTION, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship, when a friend meant a helping sword Last Line: And grass again to make modern flesh Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The NO TRUER WARMTH HAS LEAPT, by MARY IRENE WARNER Poem Text First Line: I think from mortal breast / no truer warmth Last Line: Toward those who want and faint. Subject(s): Friendship NOMADIC LIFE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: When I come back with the cups of tea Last Line: The other woman %we each might have been Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Travel NONOMIYA, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were three friends Subject(s): Friendship NOT A SUICIDE POEM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The children talk of suicide Last Line: Depending on hwere you stand, sometimes large, %sometimes not Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Healing; Love NOT A SUICIDE POEM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: You tell me the boys %in art class carve geometrics Last Line: Come through drought and frost, %we were planted side by side. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love NOT TOO MUCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't say too much, he said Last Line: And your voice offered to the stars %three songs of peace. Subject(s): Books; Conversation; Friendship NOT UNDERSTOOD, by THOMAS BRACKEN Poem Text First Line: Not understood. We move along asunder Last Line: And understood. Subject(s): Friendship; Religion; Theology NOTE FROM A THANKFUL FRIEND, by BRENDA DECOOK Poem Source First Line: It's been written that the man who has three close friends Last Line: As much for them as they have done for me Subject(s): Friendship NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO, by COLLIN MCCARTHY Poem Source Last Line: And keep them coming true Subject(s): Friendship; Love NOW IS THE TIME; AH, FRIEND, NO LONGER WAIT, by D. F. HODGES Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship O DIGBY MY DEAR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your loving fat friend, %edward lear Subject(s): Friendship O FRIENDS WHOSE HEARTS STILL KEEP THEIR PRIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship O MY FRIENDS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my friends, all of you, I renounce Last Line: As you lift your gaze towards my distracted heart Subject(s): Friendship O SUMMER FRIENDSHIP, by PHILIP MASSINGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship O! CHICHESTER, MY CARLINGFORD!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yours ever, edward lear Subject(s): Friendship O! MIMBER FOR THE COUNTY LOUTH, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yours ever, %edward lear Subject(s): Friendship; Nonsense; Writing And Writers O'TOOLE AND MCSHARRY, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: In the valley of the lachlan, where the perfume from the pines Last Line: Always flying from the ghost of con mcsharry. Subject(s): Desire; Fights; Friendship; Regret O, MY FRIEND, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That somewhere I can laugh and talk long hours with you again Subject(s): Friendship OATH OF FRIENDSHIP (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you were riding in a coach Last Line: I would get down for you Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);friendship OATH OF FRIENDSHIP (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Shang ya! / I want to be your friend Last Line: Not till then will I part from you Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);friendship;love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 25. ROMAN GLASSWARE PRESERVED IN THE ASHMOLEAN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair crystal cups are dug from earth's old crust Last Line: Brave with faint memories, rich in rainbow-rust. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 22, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus friendship. As a sacred citadel Last Line: Whose sources only at that altar dwell. Subject(s): Friendship OCTAVES: 15, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grant you friendship is a royal thing Last Line: Befriends us with a wizard's enmity. Subject(s): Friendship OCTOBER 6, 1892, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend and honoured master, art thou dead? Last Line: And crownedst with thy diadem of song Subject(s): Friendship; Death ODE TO FRIENDSHIP, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou whose power to sooth the heart Last Line: Give me one friend to mourn me in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Consolation; Friendship ODE TO WORK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who when joys appear Last Line: Give me my racquet! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831-1884); Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ODES I, 36. TO PLOTIUS NUMIDA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With incense and lyre and the ritual Last Line: Clinging to him more closely than lascivious ivy Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship ODES II, 6. TO SEPTIMIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O septimius, you would like, I know, to travel Last Line: My still-warm ashes, and the dutifully beweep your poet-friend Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship ODES II, 7. TO POMPEIUS VARUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O how often have we faced together the ultimate perils Last Line: Sweet is the folly when you regain a friend Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 11. ON LOVE - TO A FRIEND, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, foolish youth -- to virtuous fame Last Line: Where is the firm, the cautious, or the wise? Subject(s): Youth; Friendship ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 14. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND - FROM THE COUNTRY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, townshend,what can london boast Last Line: "by friendship was reclaim'd." Subject(s): Friendship ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 4. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND, IN THE COUNTRY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How oft shall I survey Last Line: "from youth to honour'd age my arts and me hath view'd." Subject(s): Friendship OF ETERNITY, by SCOTT KEENEY Poem Source First Line: On a warm summer night, a teenager smoking a joint sits alone with his Last Line: Mosquito pinching his forearm, he laughs. And something is multipled in %his eyes Subject(s): Friendship; Smoking; Teenagers OF FRIENDSHIP, by NICHOLAS GRIMALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the heavenly gifts, that mortal men commend Last Line: O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth staunch of strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Grimwoald, Nicholas; Grimoald, Nicholas Subject(s): Friendship OF MONEY, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give money me, take frienship whoso list Last Line: Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness. Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby Subject(s): Friendship; Luck; Money OF ONE AFFLICTED WITH DEAFNESS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves about the house with meek content Last Line: And hear a constant singing in her heart. Subject(s): Comfort; Deafness; Friendship; Love; Tears OF THE ISLANDS, PUERTO RICO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship OFFERING TO A DEAD FRIEND, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring these flowers, these pure white flow'rs to you in your night Last Line: They are silence too. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Friendship; Dead, The OH! LET US BE HAPPY WHEN FRIENDS GATHER ROUND US, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship OLD BOOKS, OLD WINE, OLD NANKIN BLUE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Friendship OLD CHUMS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it you, jack? Old boy, is it really you? Last Line: And I don't feel a day older, jack, not a day. Subject(s): Aging; Friendship OLD CHUMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I die first,' my old chum paused Last Line: And I laughed -- whisperingly -- and we were glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Laughter; Dead, The OLD FRIENDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We just shake hands at meeting Last Line: A sacred calm for you Subject(s): Friendship OLD FRIENDS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky widens to cornwall. A sense of sea Last Line: And the silver snake of the estuary curls to sleep %in daymer bay Variant Title(s): In Memoriam: A.c., R.j.o, K.s Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Death; Friendship OLD FRIENDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Forgive me, world, if I outlive my welcome Last Line: Has left it empty, and I feel the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Friendship OLD FRIENDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not say new friends are not considerate and true Last Line: An' to the old ones tried an' true, you turn for aid an' cheer Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship OLD FRIENDS, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We just shake hands at meeting Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Friendship OLD FRIENDSHIP STREET, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love led me to an unknown land and fain was I to go Last Line: It's I am going back again to walk old friendship street. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship OLD OCTOBER, by THOMAS CONSTABLE Poem Text First Line: Hail, old october, bright and chill Last Line: Thank goodness, old october's here! Subject(s): Friendship; October OLD ROOMS, by ERIC VESPER Poem Source First Line: When slakey and I correspond Last Line: Gathered in loose balls or pulled into corners, %proves forces are at work against us Subject(s): Friendship OLD YEAR, GOOD-NIGHT!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: Old year, good - night! A faithful friend Last Line: Old year, good-night! Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Night; Belief; Creed; Bedtime ON A BICYCLE, SELS., by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the dawn I wake my two-wheel friend Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Friendship ON A FRIENDS DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: We thought that death was hard and harsh, a doomer of dread power Last Line: Ah no! His wings wave gently as the petals of a flower. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Immortality; Love; Nature; Dead, The ON A TRUE FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hast thou a friend? Thou hast indeed Last Line: "well managed, till you die" Subject(s): Friendship ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF H.G. WILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to the artist, ever on my wall Last Line: Even with a cloud whose light were yet to lose! Subject(s): Friendship; Portraits ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING, by JOHN SHEFFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From mighty caesar, and his boundless grace Last Line: And if, alas, he fail'd, 'twas only by mistake. Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of Subject(s): Brutus (marcus Junius Brutus); Errors; Friendship - False Friends; Ingratitude; Mistakes; Fallacies; Fair Weather Friends; Ungratefulness ON FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am no homer's hero you all know Last Line: And becomes the enemy & betrayer of his friends Variant Title(s): I Am No Homer's Hero Subject(s): Bible; Enemies; Friendship; Mythology ON FRIENDSHIP, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth-born clod who hugs his idol pelf Variant Title(s): Basis Of Friendshi Subject(s): Friendship ON FRIENDSHIP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let amictia in her ample reign Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON H----YS FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When h----y finds out what you cannot do Last Line: Hired a villain to bereave my life Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology ON MR. M'MURDO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be m'murdo to his latest day Last Line: Nor ever daughter give the mother pain! Subject(s): Friendship ON MUNDANE ACQUAINTANCES; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, algernon: good morning, percy Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Friendship ON MUNDANE ACQUAINTANCES; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, algernon: good morning, percy Last Line: Good morning, mrs. Roebeck. Christ have mercy! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Friendship ON MY DOG'S DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: My friend has gone Last Line: I am learning to listen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Faith; Friendship; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness ON MY FRIENDS COMING TO HEAR ME LECTURE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why from their own concerns should they be / brought? Last Line: Than so to serve the acceptable end? Subject(s): Friendship ON PARTING WITH A FRIEND, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Can I forget thee!? No, while mem'ry lasts Last Line: "unite, ne'er more (rapt thought) to say ""farewell!" Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who does his duty is a question Last Line: So may the statelier of argyll! Subject(s): Friendship; Trees ON RECEIVING HAYLEY'S PICTURE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In language warm as could be breathed or penned Last Line: That friend of all a partial friend to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820) ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON ROSANIA'S APOSTASY, AND LUCASIA'S FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul of friendship, whither art thou fled? Last Line: Since 'twas at first from thy orinda sent. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Future Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology ON THE DEATH OF GARCILASSO, by JUAN BOSCAN ALMOGAVER Poem Source First Line: Tell me, dear garcilasso, - thou Last Line: Till I too shared thy heavenly rest Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven ON THE FLY LEAF OF A FRIEND'S BOOK, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: This book is his? The beautiful dreams between Last Line: And in the dark was building roofs of gold! Subject(s): Friendship ON THE LINE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When you've been through the wringer Last Line: Slipping off. The line gives way, tattersalls %and teddies swinging wild to the wind. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ON THE THRESHOLD, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When they leave, as they will, Last Line: Your long night on the threshold %and welcome you home. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ON THE YANGSTE KIANG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, so the ballad is sung Last Line: On the beautiful banks of the yangste kiang. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips ONE BY ONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Few are my friends Last Line: My friends leave home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Friendship; Dead, The; Parting ONE GOOD REASON, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: I had been traveling all day through the fall colors, hugging the mountainside Last Line: And the zen ocean whooshing around my head, humming a snatch of blues Subject(s): Friendship; Li Po (701-762) ONE STEP AT A TIME IS THE BEST WAY TO GO, by ADRIAN ROGERS Poem Source First Line: When going through life Last Line: You never thought you could afford Subject(s): Friendship; Love ONE WITNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The secretary was a presence grim Last Line: His little dog watched for him at the gate Subject(s): Animals;dogs;eyes;friendship;presence OPEN LETTER, PERSONAL, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends: if thirty people gather in a room Subject(s): Letters; Friendship; Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy OPINIONS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We could have been such friends, dear almost-friend! Last Line: And can my black be white? Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity ORANGE AND THE BLACK, by CLARENCE B. MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Although yale has alway favored Subject(s): Friendship ORGAN SONGS: TO A.J. SCOTT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, long ago, the daring of my youth Last Line: High love is queen, and sits without a mate. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Youth ORGAN SONGS: TO ANY FRIEND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I did seem to you no more Last Line: Then think me what you will. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: TO MY AGING FRIENDS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no winter night comes down Last Line: We are coming fast to you! Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; God; Dead, The OSSIAN'S SONG OF SORROW, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Six childless men were we, who ne'er thought harm Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Friendship OUR FIFTY-FIFTH; 1843-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our fifty-fifth! Since first, in '43 Last Line: This bond of friendship shall survive them all! Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Time OUR GANG, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've got a gang, and I belong Last Line: Or all the rest, or me! Subject(s): Boys; Brotherhood; Children; Friendship; Play; Childhood OUR LOST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They never quite leave us, our friends who have passed Last Line: But they live, like ourselves, in god's infinite care. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Loss; Dead, The; Paradise OUR OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it's good to ketch a relative 'at's Last Line: When he wags yer hand as honest as an old dog wags his tail! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Honesty OUR OLDEST FRIEND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I give you the health of the oldest friend Last Line: As bald and as wise and as tough as he! Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Schoolmates OUT AT LANESVILLE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The five or six of them, sitting on the rocks Subject(s): Friendship OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In the weeks of your going I tug at time Last Line: Where another universe waits %at the white-hot core. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love OUT WITH THE BOYS, WICHITA, 1969, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: My buddies and I were out after Last Line: Some depth none of us could fathom Subject(s): Friendship; Kansas; Night OUTGOING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who have loved the wind Last Line: Follow a day that's done. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness OWL'S BEDTIME STORY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was once upon a time a little owl Subject(s): Friendship PAINTURE; A PANEGYRIC TO THE BEST PICTURE OF FRIENDSHIP, PETER LELY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If pliny, lord high treasurer of all Last Line: But perish they and their effigies. Subject(s): Friendship PARTED FRIENDS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend after friend departs Last Line: They hide themselves in heaven's own light. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The PARTING, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou dost bid thy friend farewell Last Line: Night and day, regret should walk. Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting PARTING, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Friend, I have watched you down the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Friendship PAST DAYS, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange to think, there was a time Last Line: We welcomed the returning day. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Friendship PAST FRIENDSHIP, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that were friends, yet are not now Last Line: The thing that we have done! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): Divorced Subject(s): Divorce; Friendship PAYING CALLS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went by footpath and by stile Last Line: But they spoke not to me. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The PETE AT THE ZOO, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the elephant Subject(s): Friendship PETERKIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peterkin! No wisdom of our life accords Subject(s): Friendship; Absence; Separation; Isolation PETISSON AND MLLE. DE SARDERY, by WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER Poem Source First Line: Pellisson was twenty-nine, and mademoiselle Subject(s): Friendship PETITION FOR FRIENDSHIP, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If yet one corner in thy heart Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Friendship PHOTOGRAPH FROM FRIENDS, by DONALD LEVERING Poem Source First Line: Snow light from the window Last Line: Who gave me poetry %like a rose Subject(s): Friendship; Photography And Photographers PICADOR, by MAURINE HALLIBURTON Poem Text First Line: This is the thing I want to say to you Last Line: For a few red drops in the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcgee, Mrs. M.h. Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Friendship PLANE WRECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mine was this easy. Flying Last Line: My plane wreck was this easy. %his illness and fear were not Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Fear; Flight; Friendship; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska PLATONIC, by WILLIAM B. TERRETT Poem Text First Line: I had sworn to be a bachelor, she had sworn to be a maid Last Line: Perhaps the tears meant friendship, but I'm sure the kiss meant more. Subject(s): Friendship PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP, by J. G. L. Poem Source First Line: Friendship is usually said to be impossible across Subject(s): Friendship PLEIADES AND....CHEESE, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: My friend is robbing honey-bees Last Line: Just bread and cheese! Subject(s): Friendship; Gratitude POEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved my friend / he went away from me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Poem [2] Subject(s): Friendship POEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved my friend %he went away from me Last Line: I loved my friend Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Poem [2 Subject(s): Friendship POEM FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY; FOR BARBARA THOMPSON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year both our birthdays end in zero Last Line: The password at the boundary is friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism POEM ON FRIENDSHIP: 1, by HAFEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Desire's destroyed my life; what gifts have I Last Line: Dear friend' to loathed me by and by Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Friendship POEM ON FRIENDSHIP: 2, by HAFEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each 'friend' turned out to be an enemy Last Line: But since no men are here, how can that be? Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Friendship POEM ON FRIENDSHIP: 3, by HAFEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, hold back your heart from enemies Last Line: Stay buttoned up with ignoramses Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Friendship POEM, ADDRESSED TO COLLECTOR MITCHELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the poet, tried and leal Last Line: For ance and aye! Subject(s): Friendship; Future; Poetry & Poets POPLARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The poplar is a lonely tree Last Line: Close to each other in a row. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear mr. Ruskin, - I thank you from my heart Subject(s): Friendship PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Friendship; Music & Musicians; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Last Line: Now that we talk of dying- %and should I have the right to smile? Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Friendship; Music And Musicians; Women PREPARE THE FALL, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Expect the symptoms of fall: Last Line: See how dusk shines like the eye %of abalone. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love PRETTY AS A PICTURE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: With your face in your hands Last Line: Telling us to smile like angels, %smile just enough to break his heart. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love PRINCESS AND THE STAR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Margarita, the sea lies fair Last Line: To tell you a tale one day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Girls; Poetry And Poets PROFITLESS TALK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a pleasant thing to find a man of cultivated Last Line: Pleasant 'tis, my friends, to view the man who talks of something new! Subject(s): Conversation; Friendship; Talk PROFUSE KINDNESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a spring-tide of love to dear friends in a shoal! Last Line: Half of it to one were worth double the whole! Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Would my humble comrades have me say Last Line: But leave our orphan squalling at your door. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; France; Friendship; Orphans; Plays & Playwrights; Foundlings PROMISE YOURSELF ONLY THE BEST, by DEANNA BEISSER Poem Source Last Line: And make your dreams come true Subject(s): Friendship; Love PROMISES LIKE A PIE-CRUST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promise me no promises, / so I will not promise you Last Line: Who would perish of excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Freedom; Friendship; Liberty PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choose judiciously thy friends; for to discard Last Line: For an enraptured public to muse upon over their matutinal muffin. Subject(s): Friendship – Selectivity; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor PUBLISH MY NAME AND HANG UP MY PICTURE , FR. RECORDERS AGES HENCE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood PUT THE PINE TREE IN ITS POT BY THE DOORWAY, by NATALIA BELTING Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship PUZZLE, by ARNOLD SPILKA Poem Source First Line: My best friend's name is billy Subject(s): Friendship QUANTRAINS: FRIENDSHIP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love burns the heart with ceaseless flame Last Line: Breathes gentle fragrance everywhere. Subject(s): Friendship QUESTION, by DENNIS LEE Poem Source First Line: If I could teach you how to fly Last Line: But still I want you for my friend Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Friendship; Poetry And Poets QUID PRO QUO, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What will you give for friendship? View it near Last Line: And we'll find heaven 'spite of foe and friend. Subject(s): Friendship RAHIM MULTANI: 1. KING PRAWNS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When kiran went out of town I took the girls to get haircuts Last Line: Nights we wore our best saris, women everywhere rustling %in the room Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Youth RATTLIN,' ROARIN' WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rattlin,' roarin' willie Last Line: You're welcome hame to me! Subject(s): Seduction; Friendship; Drinks & Drinking REACH OUT FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE, by LEE WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Take the time to explore Subject(s): Friendship; Love READ SEE THAT ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship RECONCILIATION, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, all is well. The cloud hath passed awau Last Line: And spirit voice may answer spirit voice! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Friendship RED RIBBON FOR JANE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The chinese evergreen that jane gave me Last Line: Grows the message of the red ribbon Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Friendship; Healing; Sickness REEL OF TULLOCHORUM, by JOHN SKINNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O tullochgorum's my delight Subject(s): Friendship REFLECTIONS, WRITTEN ON VISITING THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Deep in this grave her bones remain Last Line: We turn to dust, to sleep, to repose. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Friendship; Graves; Mortality; Tombs; Tombstones REFLEXIVE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all disquiets sorrow is most serene Last Line: The self this gentle sorrow still recovers Subject(s): Friendship REGINALD SMITH, K.C.; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A house in london's heart. A first-floor room Last Line: I stay. And not I, only ... Publisher and friend. Subject(s): Editors; Friendship; Publishing; Publishers REJOICING AT THE ARRIVAL OF CH'EN HSIUNG, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the yellow bird's note was almost stopped Last Line: For it makes us tell the story of our whole lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Wine REMEMBER THE M, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship REMEMBERED THINGS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: A rose-hued dawn Last Line: The comradeship of one I held most dear. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Nature; Nostalgia RENDEZVOUS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I count that friendship little worth Last Line: Where friends hold converse soul to soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Friendship RENEWAL, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I renewed some forgotten friendships Last Line: And the tan on my face is a memento of the friendly sky. Subject(s): Friendship RENUNCIATION, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I have lost you, my friend Last Line: Me! Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations REPLY (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would think on Last Line: A friend, j. B. T. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Friendship REQUIEM FOR KAGUMBA, by STEPHEN LUBEGA Poem Source First Line: Irreconcilable love and pity Last Line: Only to crown me with dark haloes Subject(s): Death; Friendship RESIDUE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: The fragrance of the rain today Last Line: That friend alone has stirred. Subject(s): Friendship; Longing; Nature; Nostalgia RESPICIT ARTIFEX, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ambitious, young / ardent, inhibited, shy Last Line: No true heart could forget. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Dead, The REST OF THE WAY, by MARK MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The last tape was mailed on the day he died, my old friend from Last Line: Though our eyes began to adjust and we drove on. We drove the %rest of the way home like this Subject(s): Friendship RETURN, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: How pleasurable to have you here, my friend Last Line: But I have never been away from you. Subject(s): Autumn; Friendship; Reunions; Seasons; Fall REVOLVING HOUSE, OR ANOTHER GIRL FRIEND POEM: 7, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sitting women are sitting there Last Line: Watches back waving at every other passerby Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Women RIVER HOUSE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Perhaps you needed to leave Last Line: Jump, jump, astonished %they are speaking %out loud. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love RIVER MAN, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I know your enduring love: Last Line: If you row out to the middle, %I will call your name. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ROCKER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Sweeping today as I do every day, Last Line: To be nothing less than beautiful %as a pool of orange fantails. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: TWO KNIGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crapulinski and waschlapski, / poles in poland born and bred Last Line: "and the mighty eselinski." Subject(s): Friendship; Heroism; Knights & Knighthood; Poland; Heroes; Heroines RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women ROSE ON MY CAKE, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: I went to a party Subject(s): Friendship RUNAWAY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Pretty if you like the mix Last Line: Into a noon darkness %spilled with beer Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska RUSSELL GURNEY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that high country Last Line: As, whence thou cam'st, it knew the lofty place. Subject(s): Friendship; Praise; Scotland; Virtue SADNESS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Sadness, you are a silver locket Last Line: The weather stops stinging, until %I can't get dressed without you. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SAM TO JOHN, by GEORGE S. CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear john, I am moved by the course of events Last Line: It's this here, now, entente cordiale. Subject(s): Friendship SANCTUARY IN ALSATIA, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reginald lowestoffe was bustingly officious Subject(s): Friendship SATIRE: THE HORATION CANONS OF FRIENDSHIP, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What unthinking, heedless things are men Last Line: No - not for china's wide domain itself Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship SAVE THAT TIGER, by J. C. ELLEFSON Poem Source First Line: July fourth. Summer lake. Fish jumping. Fireworks. Four Last Line: Quartet can hold a distinguished harmony forever Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Friendship; Time SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are my friends? I am alone Last Line: Just eton boys grown heavy. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Life; Memory; Solitude; Schoolmates; Loneliness SCRUTINY, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Rushing to meet Last Line: Thinking from hard %earned success Subject(s): Friendship SEARCHING, NO ONE STOPS UNTIL, by RICHARD D. HOUFF Poem Source First Line: As a child, my friends were Last Line: And nothing could harm or take them away Subject(s): Change; Children; Friendship SECOND SUMMER, by GEOFFREY+(1) O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: What comes dropping down are Last Line: There was heat around me. %I had no friends I wanted Subject(s): Friendship; Summer SECOND-HAND, by DAVID RICKS Poem Source First Line: And here's mein kampf in english, leather Last Line: From sanskrit svasti, 'well-being, fortune, luck'.' Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Memory SECRET PLACE, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: Sit here Subject(s): Friendship SECRET TALK, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Friendship SECRET TALK, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Friendship SEEK ME, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seek me in the thorough light of spring Last Line: I'll bristle like a paintbrushful of fire Subject(s): Friendship SELECT FEW, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: It's been 25 years since Last Line: With an early trip home Subject(s): Friendship SENEX'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS YOUTHFUL IDOL, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Platonic friendship, at your years Last Line: And try to be platonic. Subject(s): Friendship SENSITIVE SYDNEY, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twas all along the binder line Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Friendship SEPARATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your absence has gone through me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your absence has gone through me Last Line: Everything I do is stitched with its color Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship SHADOWS, by ELIZABETH GULLOWAY Poem Text First Line: Shadows, like vague dreams of / youth Last Line: Just evade my grasp. Alternate Author Name(s): Galloway, Elizabeth Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships SHAKE HANDS, WE SHALL NEVER BE FRIENDS, ALL'S OVER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And whistle and I'll be there for you Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Friendship SHORT OF BREATH AND, by MARVIN MALONE Poem Source Last Line: Struggles on to %the next crisis Subject(s): Friendship; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996) SIDEKICKS, by RONALD KOERTGE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were never handsome and often came Subject(s): Friendship SILENCE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis better to sit here beside the sea Last Line: Is full of deepest speech. Subject(s): Friendship; Silence SING HEY! SING HEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And so let's all be jolly Subject(s): Christmas;friendship; "nativity, The; SINGLE HOSIERY, by BROCK BROWER Poem Source First Line: Last september I joined socks without partners Last Line: If you can't understand we too need love, tuck you! Subject(s): Friendship; Washing Machines SINGLENESS OF FRIENDSHIP, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once a man came and knocked at the door of his Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Friendship SIR AMADACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then the good knight and his steward true Last Line: And keep us safe in his hand! Subject(s): Friendship;gratitude SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES SOCIAL BEHAVIOR CLASS: FRIENDS ..., by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friends assemble to converse Last Line: Lovers are to mourn Subject(s): Friendship SIT CLOSER, FRIENDS, AROUND THE BOARD!, by ARTHUR MACY Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship SKILLY OOGAN, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: Skilly oogan's no one you can see Last Line: And no one even knows his name but me Subject(s): Friendship; Ghosts; Supernatural SMILE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just not as much fun without a good Subject(s): Food & Eating; Friendship; Relationships SO DEEP WAS THEIR LOVE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: This is the story of li po and his lover. Last Line: Speaking, and he walked down %to meet it, so deep was his love. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SO FAR AFIELD, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I am all apple tree, %you are all pine. Last Line: Find the far field, %the lone stand of shocks, %where my love %lies now in wait. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SO YOUR THINKING OF HAVING A BABY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: With the first flutter at your ribs Last Line: Overhead, not taken alone. Comes now %your wish on the wind for it never to end. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SOME FRIEND, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: What I remember is Last Line: Bitch grabbed my leg %& yanked me down Subject(s): Friendship SOMETIMES I'M DRAGGED. SOMETIMES I'M VERY DRAGGED. THE SUN HITS ME, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Fields; Friendship; Fruit; Harvest SONG, by GEORGE LINLEY Poem Source First Line: Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear Subject(s): Friendship SONG, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! 'tis a voice from the tomb Last Line: She hung on his tombstone and died. Variant Title(s): Song The Eighth Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONG FOR A VENISON DINNER AT MR. BUNYAN'S, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, push 'round the bottle, and let us be drinking Last Line: Has strengthened the hands of these upstart pretenders. Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Friendship; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONG FOR AN OLD FRIEND, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: She is small and lends advice Last Line: Today her voice is being lost %in the signs of a farm dance gone, %in the hope of a morning %and a d Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Old Age SONG FOR DANIEL, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: If you stay, the earth will stand Last Line: My arms, come rest there, long and long, %my sweet blue wings. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SONG OF A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now, my friends, please hear Subject(s): Friendship SONG OF THE SAINTS AND ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gordon, the self-refusing Last Line: Die in a psalm of peace. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Homecoming; Peace; War; Dead, The SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nought but sorrow attended Last Line: On your friendship I cannot rely. Subject(s): Birds; Friendship; Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading ends in melancholy Last Line: Farewell all, if friendship ceases. Subject(s): Books; Disease; Friendship; Melancholy; Reading; Dejection SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 13, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, inform thy faithful creature Last Line: Ever tortured if we're friends. Subject(s): Fidelity; Friendship; Love; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy SONNET TO A FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thy profession thou hast many peers Last Line: To make me half forget that I was ill. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship SONNET TO FANNY ALEXANDER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unconscious as the sunshine, simply sweet Last Line: Fair pictures of an angel drawing nigh! Subject(s): Friendship SONNET TO SIR W. ALEXANDER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love alexis did to damon bear Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Alexander, Sir William (1567-1640); Friendship; Poetry And Poets SONNET TO W-- P--, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If genuine love of freedom, testified Last Line: Honour'd, rever'd, and lov'd; but utter'd not by me. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, then, join the murmurming city's throng Subject(s): City & Town Life; Friendship SONNET: 12. THE SPEEDY FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware a speedy friend, the arabian said Last Line: Is swept, still lingering on the boughs the last. Subject(s): Advice; Arabs; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 19. TO --, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, false friend! -- our scenes of kindness close! Last Line: Flatter with weak regret a broken vow! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends SONNET: 24, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath stell'd Last Line: They draw but what they see, know not the heart. Variant Title(s): "mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled""; Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters SONNET: 29, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to thee, bedford! Mournful is the tale Last Line: With rarely-sprinkled leaves, casting a trembling shade. Subject(s): Aging; Blessings; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 30, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You mean, my friend, you do not greatly care Last Line: Of days when I shall please your taste, my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 30, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Last Line: All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Variant Title(s): Loses Restored;remembrance Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Past SONNET: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, dear as memory's joys! Of life that's past Last Line: Disturb the mutual trust our being shares. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Memory SONNET: 55, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Last Line: You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 7, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those times are gone, that circle thinned away Last Line: And age grows young in friendship's quickening sun. Subject(s): Friendship SONNET: 8. TO VITTORIA COLONNA, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Better plea %love cannot have, than that, in loving thee Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Friendship SONNET: AM I TO LOSE YOU?, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I to lose you now?' the words were light Last Line: "I greatly need your friendship: leave it me." Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Friendship SONNET: FRIENDS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fell among the thieves awhile ago Subject(s): Friendship SONNET: WARD'S, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale friends you wish us ever to remain Last Line: A wind blew, and dim worship flamed to love. Subject(s): Infatuation; Friendship SONNET: WITHOUT REGRET, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when have after-days or evenings brought Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Friendship SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 6, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I move amid your throng, I watch you hold Last Line: Only the splendour of your loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Friendship; Night; English; Bedtime SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek among the living, and I seek Last Line: Weep for a little ere we go & play. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS: A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this be friendship-that one broken hour Last Line: The sinews that can help us to rebuild! Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends SONNETS: TO A DEAD FRIEND, by ELLEN C. NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Do you rest sweetly in your wintry grave Last Line: Those dear, dumb lips can keep their secret well. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Mrs. James Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The SOPHISTICATE, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Text First Line: Old friends are but a graveyard Last Line: That I should have outgrown so many things. Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Friendship SOREN KIERKEGAARD WRITES TO REGINE OLSEN ON THE DAY OF HER MARRIAGE..., by ANTHONY WALTON Poem Source First Line: I have been reading again the story of abraham Last Line: Darling, I would not have harmed you Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Marriage SORROW'S THRONE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why are friends like summer showers Last Line: It blooms but to bereave us! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Friendship; Love SOUL-COMMINGLING, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I know not if such days and nights Subject(s): Friendship SPARKLING AND BRIGHT, by CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sparkling and bright in liquid light Last Line: And break on the lips while meeting Subject(s): Friendship SPEECH AND SILENCE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The words that pass from lip to lip Last Line: That's deeper than all speech! Subject(s): Friendship; Speech SPRING STREET GIRL FRIEND POEM: 8, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the snug harbors, helicopter and electric eel Last Line: Where the fish smell like fish and the cheese like cheese Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Cities; Friendship STAND BY ME, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the solace of angels is named Last Line: Stand by me Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS IN MEDITATION, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She may count three little daisies very well Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art gone to the grave - but we will not deplore thee Last Line: Where death hath no sting, since the savior hath died. Variant Title(s): Hymns: At A Funeral Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Friendship; Dead, The STANZAS TO A FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dost not need that verse of mine Last Line: For soothing thoughts, a theme in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS TO TOM WOODGATE, OF HASTINGS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom; - are you still within this land Last Line: Tom woodgate, fare thee well! Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS TO WILLIAM ROSCOE, ESQ., by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first, like a child building houses with cards Last Line: By the father once own'd, and bequeath'd to the son. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND ON HER MARRIAGE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: No voice but that of gladness Last Line: Shall absence it destroy? Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Life; Love; Memory; Parting STARLIGHT REFLECTIONS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this grey column - overthrown Last Line: They shall not rise again! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Friendship; Humanity; Life STEEL CRICKET / INNOKENTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I knew anguish would come back and stay with me Last Line: With me -- anguish -- not you and your tender voices Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Friendship STICK ELEGY, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead were still singing turn the lights down low Last Line: Into trend's shadow because our money always followed Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The STOP THE MOVIE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Still experiencing negative Last Line: I've memorized for %just such occasions Subject(s): Friendship; Motion Pictures STOPPING BY THE MANOR OF AN OLD FRIEND, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My old friend cooked chicken and millet Last Line: And I'll come back for chysanthemums Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Farm Life; Friendship; Nature STRANGERS IN THE DUSK, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: There is a time when he and I are strangers, in the dusk Last Line: We love a friend not less because we loved another best. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Love; Relationships; Strangers STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED ONE STEP AT A TIME, by DEANNA BEISSER Poem Source First Line: It is not the final success Last Line: Wherever you want to go Subject(s): Friendship; Love SUCH A FRIEND, by ALLAN BOTSFORD Poem Source First Line: O sweeter than the honey well Subject(s): Friendship SUMMER EVENINGS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I finish my wine, I think of my friends Last Line: Enriched by them Subject(s): Friendship SUMMONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I changed? Last Line: The way I go! Subject(s): Friendship SUNLIGHT, by BEULAH H. LYON Poem Text First Line: The gray mist drapes itself about the trees Last Line: When instantly the sunlight filters through. Subject(s): Friendship SWIFTLY THE DAYS FLY PAST, by GIUSEPPE PARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Unto our parting day Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Transcience; Aging SWIMMER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I almost loaded the food in the car Last Line: Not a storm in sight as they set out across Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SYLVANDER TO CLARINDA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dear clarinda, matchless fair Last Line: I'll write whatever I've to do. Subject(s): Love; Grief; Friendship TABLEAU, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Locked arm in arm they cross the way Subject(s): Friendship TABLEAU, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Locked arm in arm they cross the way Last Line: That lightning brilliant as a sword %should blaze the path of thunder Subject(s): Friendship TAKE THE WORLD AS IT IS, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world as it is! - there are good and bad in it Last Line: And the wisest and best take the world as it is. Subject(s): Earth; Friendship; World TAKE US TO HEAVEN J-NATHAN, by CARRIE J. KNOWLES Poem Source First Line: Three friends, together for this moment Last Line: This sure deep spade %of earth Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven TAKING IT BACK, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I can come here now and take back Last Line: I'll catch the bouquet of pink and blue mussels. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TAMARINDO PUPPY, by CHARLOTTE POMERANTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship TELEVISED TRUTH, by EMMANUEL PIERREUSE Poem Source First Line: Each glance through the luminescent window Subject(s): Friendship; Love THANK YOU FOR YOUR LETTER, by CH'AO LI-HOUA, Poem Source First Line: The letter you sent me touched my heart Subject(s): Friendship THE ACID TEST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lots of pleasant fellows who will slap you on the back Last Line: For the guy who lends you money when you're broke. Subject(s): Friendship THE ADIRONDACS; A JOURNAL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We crossed champlain to keeseville with our friends Last Line: As if one riddle of the sphinx were guessed. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 9. THE FRIENDS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frank's long, dull letter, lying by Last Line: We had not been true friends before. Subject(s): Friendship THE ARROW AND THE SONG, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shot an arrow into the air, / it fell to the earth, I know not where Last Line: I found again in the heart of a friend. Subject(s): Arrows; Friendship THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOM CHAIR, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars Last Line: And yonder she sits in my cane-bottomed chair. Variant Title(s): The Cane-bottom'd Chair Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship; Home; Nostalgia THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A street there is in paris famous Last Line: -- here comes the smoking bouillabaisse! Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France; Restaurants; Travel; Cafes; Diners; Journeys; Trips THE BALLOON, 1819, by MOSES Y. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Huzza! Huzza! Clear, clear the way! Last Line: "the balloon—don't ascend to-day!" Subject(s): Balloons; Bowery, New York City; Friendship THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtful reader here may see Last Line: The fervent blessing of a father! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Life; Tears THE BEGINNING, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end / of passion Subject(s): Friendship THE BLUE COAST, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter sat in the garden Last Line: Had given him for his journey: / sentimental education Subject(s): Travel; Friendship; Relationships THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#66), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That one was lost at sea and another to rot, that one threw himself Last Line: Do not let them tell you that the dead man has gone on ahead. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE BOYS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? Last Line: Dear father, take care of thy children, the boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Old Age; Schoolmates THE BOYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they? - the friends Last Line: Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Time; Youth; Childhood THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years ago, dear love, / and we were strangers; in a distant land Last Line: With souls, not bound, but blended evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Time; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHAIN OF FRIENDSHIP, by CARMEN NELSON RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: King mars, the crafty villain, pledges lands Last Line: To weld a friendship chain around the earth. Subject(s): Friendship THE CHAIN; TO C.H.P., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Brother of mine, it is good to think Last Line: Lick round us and wrack us, oh, brother of mine! Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships THE CHERRY BOUGH, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a new poet's and a new friend's honor Last Line: "your bough is dying." Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Friendship THE CHOICE OF FRIENDS, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One balmy day in gentle june Last Line: "be careful in your choice of friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Relationships THE CLOSED DOOR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knock! Knock! Bide not there baffled with Last Line: Knock, that the door may open! Knock, oh, knock! Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Visiting THE COMPARISON, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship is like the gold refined Last Line: And melt in lambent flame. Subject(s): Friendship THE CONDITION, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we share most is boredom, friend Subject(s): Friendship THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together. Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DEAD FRIEND, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you were alive, at least Last Line: As I remember here to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE DEAD FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul Last Line: There will be joy in grief. Variant Title(s): Communings Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the enemy hath bent his bow Last Line: The grave? Just god! Thy no is written there! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEPARTED FRIEND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though he that ever kind and true Last Line: Waits on a stile. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Verses Written In 1872;resurgence Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Religion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology THE DILEMMA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two fashionable women, rather gay Last Line: "I have n't character enough for two!" Subject(s): Friendship THE DISTANT ROAD, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed is the man that beholdeth the face of a friend in a far country Last Line: I thank thee heartily for the comfort of a comrade on the distant road. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Friendship THE DREAMS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sleeping I go in dreams Last Line: When I wake from my dreams, I wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DUCHESSE'S RED SHOES; AFTER PROUST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swann has visited the duc and duchesse de guermantes Last Line: The chaos of a small pond. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Selflessness; Dead, The THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the duck to the kangaroo Last Line: As the duck and the kangaroo? Subject(s): Ducks; Friendship; Kangaroos; Nonsense; Mallards; Drakes THE ELM AND THE VINE, by JOSE ROSAS MORENO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uphold my feeble branches Last Line: And glory of the spring. Subject(s): Friendship THE ENDURING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A misty memory - faint, far away Last Line: "have god thy friend: he passeth all the rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Life; Memory; Youth THE FAIRY'S GIFT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the little one's cradle Last Line: She found the heart of a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Friendship; Love; Childhood THE FAREWELL. TO THE BRETHREN OF ST. JAMES'S LODGE, TARBOLTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! A heart-warm fond adieu Last Line: To him, the bard that's far awa. Subject(s): Farewell; Brotherhood; Friendship; Parting THE FEAST, by NORA B. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Those who are not mine Last Line: And the truth between us. Subject(s): Friendship THE FEATHER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder dost thou sleep at night Last Line: Friend of mine, my enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Fair Weather Friends THE FEMALE FRIEND, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this imperfect, gloomy scene Last Line: Who has a faithful female friend! Subject(s): Friendship THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad Last Line: And there the wonder ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIRST FIRE OF THE SEASON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How it leaps, in dance excited Last Line: Of the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This brief effusion I indite Last Line: To charm life's dreary day! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FRIEND, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What I saw in his head Subject(s): Friendship THE FRIEND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great friend Last Line: A profounder mystery. Subject(s): Friendship; India; Sea; Ocean THE FRIEND'S BURIAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are all in yonder town Last Line: Revealed in holy lives. Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Religion; Burials; Theology THE FRIENDLY TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I've found a place beside a friendly tree Last Line: "my true and silent friend." Subject(s): Friendship; May (month); Trees THE FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to help you Subject(s): Friendship THE FRIENDS, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor john died yesternight Last Line: And miss him sadly. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Neighbors; Dead, The THE FRIENDS OF HERACLITUS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your friend has died, with whom Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Imaginary Conversations; City & Town Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE FRIENDSHIP, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you I am angry Last Line: Of darkness in sea Subject(s): Friendship THE FRIENDSHIP-FLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the friendship-flower is planted Last Line: But leave the blossoms where they died. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship THE GARRET, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With pensive eyes the little roon I view Last Line: Give me the days when I was twenty-one! Subject(s): Friendship THE GIANTS OF HISTORY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little people behind the scenes are getting ugly Last Line: No good to them now, in their hour of need Subject(s): Friendship; Giants; History; Historians THE GIRDLE OF FRIENDSHIP, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gathered at her slender waist Last Line: Lives changeless through them all. Subject(s): Friendship THE GODS WHO COME AMONG US IN THE GUISE OF STRANGERS, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late nights, with summer moths clinging Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ZOHEYR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me for 'ommi 'aufa! Woe for the tents of her Last Line: Only the mouth that hath no silence endeth in emptiness. Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Friendship THE GOOD COMRADE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a faithful comrade Last Line: My comrade good and true! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; Dead, The THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Thou that swingst upon the waving ear [or, hair] Last Line: That wants himself is poor indeed. Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Friendship; Grasshoppers THE GREATEST SIN, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: My friend would guard my treasures as his own Last Line: He robbed me of my faith in god today. Variant Title(s): The Greater Sin Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Friendship; God; Religion; Sin; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Theology THE HAPPY LITTLE CLOCK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In my garret room, I'm never quite / alone Last Line: With my little china clock upon the shelf. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Friendship; January; Time; Childhood THE HEART'S SUMMER, by EPES SARGENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold blast at the casement beats Last Line: In our hearts 't is summer still. Subject(s): Friendship THE HIDDEN BROOK, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So flows my love along your life, o friend Last Line: That you may drink in any hour of need. Subject(s): Friendship THE IMAGINATION SCHOOL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine / getting each other's jokes Last Line: Unremarkable friendship… Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The THE INALIENABLE BOND, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the best a friend can be Last Line: Speak softlier the dear name of god. Variant Title(s): God's Best Gift Subject(s): Friendship; God THE INTRUDER, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings they listen to the same Subject(s): Friendship; Dogs THE INVITATION, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Health to my friend, and long unbroken years Last Line: And hides her head in the green lap of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Friendship THE INVITATION, by LEONARD WELSTED Poem Text First Line: Freeman, I treat tonight, and treat your friends Last Line: You know your friends; you know your bill of fare. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Visiting THE KIND OLD FRIENDLY FEELINGS, by CHARLES SWAIN Poet's Biography Last Line: That blessed our youthful day Subject(s): Friendship THE KIND WORD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friendly word that's kindly spoken is Last Line: Men may be from gloom emerging, to take their places in the sun. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Mankind; Human Race THE LADY OF LA GARAYE: DEDICATION, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of old days, of suffering, storm, and strife Last Line: Twas a true friend to whom such thanks were given! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Friendship THE LADY RECONCILED, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A lady and a tiger held Last Line: Beware the lady reconciled. Subject(s): Friendship; Peace; Reconciliation THE LADY UNKNOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of evenings hangs above the restaurant Last Line: I also know: truth lies in wine. Variant Title(s): The Stranger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Friendship; Imagination; Shadows; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Fancy THE LAST GOOD-BYE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Is often heard Last Line: "a long, a last ""good-bye." Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation THE LAST MAN'S CLUB, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The THE LAST RHYME, SAVE ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sung in a wayward fashion Last Line: The poet of later on. Subject(s): Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Story-telling; Work; Workers THE LEAL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friends I made have slipped and strayed, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Friendship THE LIBRARY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My house is very large and tall Last Line: They are the friends that never die. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Libraries & Librarians; November; Reading THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the stilly night Last Line: Of other days around me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Scotch Air Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity THE LITTLE JEW, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were at school together Last Line: The little jew and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Judaism THE LOST FRIEND, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The people take the thing of course Last Line: Who yet shall dog my footsteps to the end. Subject(s): Friendship THE LOVER AND THE FRIEND, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou for whom my lyre I string Last Line: At once the lover and the friend. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Dead, The THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR OLD FRIENDS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you are in your shining days Last Line: For all eyes but these eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Poet Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends Subject(s): Friendship THE MAHOGANY TREE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas is here Last Line: Round the old tree! Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Trees; Nativity, The THE MAN WHO SAW THE END OF THE JOURNEY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known anguish, loss and disappointment Last Line: Hand in hand a moment, let us gaze and love thee! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE MAY FLOWER; INSCRIBED TO A VERY DEAR FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May, sweet may! This branch of blossom Last Line: My will to heaven, live unrepining. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Hawthorn; May (month) THE MEETING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After so long an absence Last Line: Steals over our merriest jests. Subject(s): Friendship THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two barks met on the deep mid-sea Last Line: Such ties are formed below. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship; Ships & Shipping THE MEETING OF THE WATERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet Last Line: And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): The Vale Of Avoca Subject(s): Avoca (river), Ireland; Avoca (vale), Ireland; Friendship; Rivers THE MEMORY OF THE HEART, by DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If stores of dry and learned lore we gain Last Line: Nor lose their lustre till the heart stands still Subject(s): Friendship THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A muse (like this) of great and good desires Last Line: Which now (till then) giues me like breath to pawse. Subject(s): Friendship; Thames (river) THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 3, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mornings queene, to euery studious minde Last Line: In hazle castles now to fence our ewes. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Love THE MUSIC ONE LOOKS BACK ON, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In early autumn, there's a concerto Last Line: And geese, geese flying flying south out of winter Subject(s): Guests; Family Life; Friendship THE NAVVY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from mansion and from mart Last Line: And god be good to you — and me. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE NEW HOUSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the house not homely yet? Last Line: Legendwise inscribed above. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship; Houses THE NIGHT AT THE PALAIS, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifteen, we had to lie to get in there Last Line: Still and watched they fly like crazy angels Subject(s): Night Clubs; Manchester, England; Teenagers; Dancing & Dancers; Friendship; Innocence THE NORTH SHORE WATCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things are lovely as they were, and still Last Line: With phosphorescent gleams, and dark oars dropping light. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nature; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE NUN'S SOLILOQUY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon sun, who runs his annual course Last Line: No convent walls divide. Subject(s): Friendship; Nuns THE OLD LURE (FLEET STREET), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gaunt night covers the city Last Line: And the pals of long ago. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Old Age THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "but you must say, 'I am his friend,' / and prove that fact to be true" Subject(s): Friendship THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE OWL'S BEDTIME STORY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was once upon a time a little owl Last Line: A friend to play with,if, now, you will fly Subject(s): Friendship; Owls THE PASSING OF A FRIEND, by JESSIE STEARNS GRIFFITHS Poem Text First Line: We loved her so! Last Line: And thou art love! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE PIG AND THE HEN, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pig and the hen / both got in one pen Subject(s): Hens; Pigs; Relationships; Anger; Friendship THE PLAYMATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: For thee thine own self grows to be Last Line: A stranger of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Time THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village green Last Line: At once illumined when the cloud is past. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory THE POISONED ARROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All wounded sore he lay upon my path Last Line: Within his hand he held a bow unstrung. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Murder; Fair Weather Friends THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sable pall, no waving plume Last Line: Such love and faith to guard his grave? Subject(s): Friendship THE PRAYER WAY, by R. ANNA MORRIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: My friend, I know you are not near Last Line: Until I kneel and for you pray. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE PROMISE, by KATHARINE SPRINGER Poem Text First Line: Across the way my neighbor's gardens grow Last Line: So promises heaven we shall rejoin our friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Trust THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the top of the crumpetty tree Last Line: With the quangle wangle quee. Subject(s): Friendship; Hats; Nonsense THE RIDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I struck him down in sudden wrath / over a trivial word Last Line: Come riding o'er the hill! Subject(s): Friendship; Ghosts; Horseback Riding; Murder; Supernatural; Violence THE ROAD, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Now where are ye goin',' ses I, 'wid the shaw! Last Line: Still 'twas me that went wid her right on to the end! Subject(s): Friendship; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROSE OF SHARON, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his chamber sat the rabbi Last Line: "and forgets its olden sorrows." Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Knights & Knighthood; Judaism THE ROSE WITHOUT A THORN, by RUTH A. HARTZELL Poem Text First Line: There's only one rose that I may name Last Line: Is the one of a friendship rare. Subject(s): Friendship THE ROYAL GUEST, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me I am shrewd with other men Last Line: But the poor mansion offers thee its best. Subject(s): Friendship THE SENTINEL; TO MY FRIEND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Thanks sweetest friend, who deckest me Last Line: Be thou my second, though my self thou art. Subject(s): Friendship; Gratitude THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 57, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: As clouds that gather on the mountain's brow Last Line: Fair guillardun, his bitter news to break. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Friendship; Knights & Knighthood THE SLUM-CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is meeting and parting Last Line: One loving friend. Subject(s): Friendship THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S FRIENDS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two good friends had hiawatha Last Line: How the tribes of men might prosper. Subject(s): Friendship THE SORTIE; TO H.B.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the bridge that spans the encircling fosse Last Line: Victor or vanquished, you were in the van. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Friendship THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE STAFF AND THE TREE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: This grew a sapling on the mountain side Last Line: Will come and sit beside you in its shade! Subject(s): Friendship THE STIMULUS OF FRIENDSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "because of your firm faith, I kept the track" Last Line: So I kept right Subject(s): Faith;friendship; Belief;creed THE STONE TABLE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the stone table on the hill Last Line: Grafted for our lifetimes onto paradise root-stock Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nature; Death; Friendship THE TRIPLE LEAGUE TO MRS. SUSAN DOVE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Pensive eliza lately sat Last Line: That charming iris still is mine. Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Friendship; Soul; Eros; Destiny THE TRUTH?, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my enemies, my friends Last Line: Back to our old play! Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; God; Heaven; Love; Truth; Paradise THE TWO DREAMS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met one in the land of sleep Last Line: So both were only dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE TWO FLAMES, by ELOISE BRITON Poem Text First Line: Behind my mask of life there lies a shrine Last Line: My leaping flames, the red one and the white. Subject(s): Fire; Friendship; Life; Love; Passion; Red (color); White (color) THE TWO FRIENDS, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have two friends - two glorious friends Last Line: Or die in my bed, as a christian should, is all the same to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): Friendship THE UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot count our friends, nor say Last Line: His friendly gift for us to find. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship THE WANDERER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm talking about what isn't there anymore, Subject(s): Friendship; Family Life; City & Town Life; Farewell; Love; Relatives; Parting THE WELCOME, by FARID OD-DIN MOHAMMAD EBN EBRAHIM ATTAR Poem Text First Line: One night shah mahmud, who had been of late Last Line: "poor flue more royal than another's throne." Alternate Author Name(s): Attar, Ferideddin; Attar, Farid-uddin Subject(s): Friendship THE WILD RIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses Last Line: Thou leadest, o god! All's well with thy troopers that follow! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Life THE WOMAN YOU USED TO LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Did you ever go back to the woman you used Last Line: "loved and lost, and found again in a friend who understood" Subject(s): Friendship THE WONDERFU' WEAN, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our wean's the most wonderfu' wean e'er I saw Last Line: How he cheers up their hearts -- he's the wonderfu' wean. Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Friendship THERE ARE GOLD SHIPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship THERE ARE TWO, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ways about it. In fact, that only scratches the surface; for - well, had Subject(s): Friendship THERE ARE TWO, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ways about it. In fact, that only scratches the surface; for - well, had Last Line: That matter!' Subject(s): Friendship THERE WAS A LIGHT PIG FROM MONTCLAIR, by ARNOLD STARK LOBEL Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF KENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE LISTENING, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Since I've known Last Line: It's just that now %there's always someone %listening Subject(s): Friendship THEREFORE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I'm alive, therefore I love kitty leitrim Last Line: Survives our lives Subject(s): Friendship; Love THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the outset / charmed by the soft, quick speech Last Line: Of poetry – was at last mine Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry & Poets THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the outset %charmed by the soft, quick speech Last Line: Of poetry - was at last mine Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry And Poets THESE FOLK OF NATURE, by LOUIS D. WEBER Poem Text First Line: One morning I was slumbering in my bed Last Line: If the birds weren't here to lighten the spot. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Usefullness THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust Subject(s): Friendship THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust Subject(s): Friendship THINE EYES IN MINE EYES, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: So thou and I, friend Subject(s): Friendship; Eyes THIRD PERIOD, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Joann got me a paying Last Line: Surprised them but %did them no damage Subject(s): Friendship; Schools THIS WAY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It could have been this way Last Line: That, dear friend, was life %and it is what it was Subject(s): Friendship THOSE GRAVES IN ROME, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places where the eye can starve, Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Friendship; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THOU DOST NOT KNOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Blindly she groped her way Last Line: All now is o'er? Subject(s): Friendship THREE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were just three Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship THREE AMORETTI: 2. ON CANAL & BROADWAY, by RICK BAROT Poem Source First Line: Since you came back I've been all rhymes Last Line: Here,' you say - word enough for me for now Subject(s): Cities; Friendship; Streets; Walking THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always suddenly they are gone Last Line: Half inaudibly shrieks to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THREE FRIENDS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the blessings which my life has known Last Line: For through them shone the lustrous eyes of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship THREE GOOD FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I can't remember how Last Line: Did she choose to let go %for us Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - Selectivity; Love - Loss Of THREE SINGING FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schoolmaster and songmaster! Last Line: Thou meadow-lark no less than nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Singing & Singers TO - (7), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not lord it o'er thy heart Last Line: And friendship to be second best. Subject(s): Friendship TO -- --, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our friendship, arthur, was not form'd Last Line: Will do, as we have done, without them. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship TO A CAPRICIOUS FRIEND, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow Last Line: There is no living with thee, nor without thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Temperament Subject(s): Friendship TO A DEAD FRIEND, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is as if a silver chord Last Line: He lies and laughs and lives. Subject(s): Friendship TO A DISTANT FRIEND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant Last Line: Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know! Variant Title(s): Speak! Subject(s): Friendship; Love TO A FALSE FRIEND, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our hands have met, but not our hearts Last Line: I would our hands had never met! Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends TO A FRIEND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I sometimes wonder if the hand of fate Last Line: I only wish to live and learn of you! Subject(s): Friendship TO A FRIEND, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Look up, look up, that heavy blow Last Line: Shall lighten our declining years! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Friendship TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Through drenching deeps a ship is sailing Last Line: Beckons and governs me! Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails TO A FRIEND, by LENA MOORE FISHER Poem Text First Line: Within my heart a space was void Last Line: For having you, my friend. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Relationships; Sincerity TO A FRIEND, by JOHN GOWDY Poem Text First Line: Your eyes are - but I cannot tell Last Line: The depths revealed alone to me. Subject(s): Friendship TO A FRIEND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you discard me, too late Last Line: Speak, for clumsy at your %ear can no more feed Subject(s): Friendship TO A FRIEND, by SATRA. ANNA NAOMI Poem Text First Line: Spring like a maiden sweet and gay Last Line: No need ever more to sigh. Subject(s): Friendship TO A FRIEND, by MRS. LOUIS SOLEM Poem Text First Line: More precious by far than an exquisite pearl Last Line: For, my wonderful friend, I have you. Subject(s): Friendship TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND AT PARTING, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my friend! - perchance again Last Line: For me behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting TO A FRIEND DYING, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell you that death's at the turn of the road Last Line: "yes, I hear your faint voice: ""this is rest, and like sleeping!" Alternate Author Name(s): Droch Variant Title(s): The Unillumined Verge Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The TO A FRIEND FAR AWAY, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The twilight is diaphanous; it seems Last Line: Your mournful eyes, of pallid emerald hue! Subject(s): Friendship; Mourning TO A FRIEND I CAN'T FIND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What about this, after all Last Line: The living started digging out Subject(s): Absence; Colorado (state); Friendship; Separation; Isolation TO A FRIEND IMPRISONED IN GERMANY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young man's heart labours with many a birth Last Line: Is sweet, and sweet the friendship of the dead. Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Friendship; Youth TO A FRIEND IN DEATH, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Text First Line: Thou,gentle youth, wast rival in thy grace Last Line: Of him who perished in the nile's pale arms. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nile (river); Youth; Dead, The TO A FRIEND ON RECEIVING FROM HIM A VOLUME OF 'THE PARNASSUS JOURNAL.', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Owre a' parnassus I hae wannert Last Line: That I should say—yer maist obedient Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Parnassus (mountain), Greece TO A FRIEND WHO GAVE ME A GROUP OF WEEDS AND GRASSES, AFTER DURER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the sun's own work, but more refined Last Line: Or grown in nature's mysteries an adept? Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Friendship; Gifts & Giving TO A FRIEND WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN SINCE MY CHILDHOOD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And thou hast marked, in childhood's hour Last Line: The grave, that home of all below. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Childhood TO A FRIEND, WITH A VOLUME OF VERSES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you who dwell withdrawn, above Last Line: Oh, brave idealist. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Friendship; Idealism TO A FRIEND: MR. BAKER IS WELL, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelm'd with pleasure at the joyful news Last Line: The beauteous hoyland shall employ my line. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Men; News; Joy; Delight TO A FRIENDLY CRITIC, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Vision so high that I am dazzled in my sight Last Line: Who will not let me choose ignoble end. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Friendship TO A FROG, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: Welcome, unfailing herald of glad spring Last Line: But only pride and ardor for the task at hand. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness TO A JILTED SWAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee back neglected friends Last Line: Curst is she that marrieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Laughter; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A NAMELESS FRIEND, by HUGH WESTERN Poem Text First Line: The uneasy wren, who scolded with a tweet Last Line: Where only I have cares that last so late? Subject(s): Friendship; Moon TO A PORTRAIT OF ISABEL FENWICK [PAINTED, MARAGARET GILLIES], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We gaze, nor grieve to think that we must die Last Line: Whose flower with us will vanish, must survive. Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings And Painters TO A REJECTED COMRADE, by COSETTE FAUST NEWTON Poem Text First Line: I fear, my friend, you would not greatly care Last Line: Of all attempt to make our pathways blend. Subject(s): Friendship TO A YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fellow-artist, why so free / with every sort of company Last Line: With landor and with donne. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship - Selectivity TO A YOUTHFUL FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few years have passed since thou and I Last Line: Be something, any thing, but -- mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO AGNES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Could my agnes rove these favorite shades Last Line: Beam in her eye, and animate her face. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM; FROM HER BOY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the long nights you lay awake Last Line: R. L. S. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Cunningham, Alison; Friendship TO ALL FRIENDS, by FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: When this corruptible must be Last Line: Ring with it. I shall be there! Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Parties; Burials TO ALMON KEEFER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This first book that I ever knew Last Line: And I will listen as you read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Youth; Reading TO AN ABSENT FRIEND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The day thy happy path crossed mine it seemed Last Line: Thou inspiration art eternally. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation TO AN ENEMY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I despise my friends more than you Subject(s): Friendship; Enemies; Hate TO AN OLD FRIEND, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we have lived our little lives and wandered all their byways through Last Line: As one who's had a happy life, made glorious by the best of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Friendship TO AN OLD FRIEND (FOR LLOYD WILLIAMS), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to dream of some established spot Last Line: Not a mere taxicab shot wild through space! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Friendship TO AN OXFORD FRIEND KILLED IN ACTION; AFTER READING POEM BY W.M. LETTS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I saw you last beside the stream Last Line: Or counts her gain in trade.) Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Letts, Winifred Mary (1882-1971); Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The TO ANY FRIEND, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: If I may call you friend, I wish you this Subject(s): Friendship TO AURELIO SAFFI, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To god and man be simply true Last Line: Prospering onward without end. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Love; Praise; Truth; Virtue TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Range %a rest %face off Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused TO C.F. BRADFORD ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pipe came safe, and welcome too Last Line: Who sent my favorite pipe to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO CHARLES BAXTER (IN LALLAN), ON THE DEATH OF ... JOHN ADAM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' johnie's deid. The mair's the pity! Last Line: To's destination. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Friendship; Dead, The TO CLOE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I am scorched with hot desire Last Line: The rest in mine shall ever last. Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Hearts; Passion TO D -., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thee, I fondly hoped to clasp Last Line: Without thee, where would be my heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO E. S. C., by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some one of you has lost a friend Last Line: A voice that walks among the apple trees. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy TO E.N. (1), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: From out of the snare that the fool men set Last Line: The fool of you all ... But at least your fool! Subject(s): Advice; Friendship; Kindness TO E.N. (2), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Others, more skilled than I Last Line: Was more sincere! Subject(s): Friendship; Sincerity TO EDGAR WILSON NYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O 'william,' in thy blithe companionship Last Line: Only because thou jokest overwell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Joy; Delight TO EUGENION; A DESCRIPTION OF THE LOVE OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man, of a troubled spirit, prone to fight Last Line: Which parted, to itself again doth fly. Subject(s): Friendship TO FIND A FRIEND, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Source First Line: The city's ways are not my ways, and never Subject(s): Friendship TO FRANK PARKER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years ago we were here Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters TO FRIENDS AT HOME, THE LONE, THE ADMIRED, THE LOST, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The unforgetful, dedicate Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship; Home TO FRIENDS OF OTHER SUMMERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We heeded the blood's warm nudge, the arterial music Subject(s): Memory; Summer; Friendship TO FRIENDSHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Friendship, sweetest, exquisite delight Last Line: Oh! Child of tender sensibility. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship TO G.M.T., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is sinking in the west Last Line: To love as good as thine. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Love; Mourning; Patience; Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962); Dead, The; Bereavement TO GEORGE H. BOKER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you the homage of this book I bring Last Line: A heart, dear friend, that never falsely beat. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Seasons TO GEORGE, EARL DELAWARR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh yes, I will own we were dear to each other Last Line: I ask no atonement but days like the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, by JOAN KINDERMAN Poem Source First Line: I bow to you, good friend gerard Last Line: To read you, sir, is my delight Subject(s): Friendship TO GORDON, LEAVING KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of traitorous feet! Last Line: Where the thames and the clyde are flowing! Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Nile (river); War; Parting TO H----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ake Last Line: Do be my enemy for friendships sake Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology TO H.B.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Oh, life was utterly good that night Last Line: And an hour of understanding! Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends TO HARRY ELLIS WOOLDRIDGE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and the muse have left their home, now bare Last Line: To match thee in thy wisdom and thy jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Collaboration; Friendship; Wooldridge, Harry Ellis (1845-1917) TO HARRY WAKELYN SMITH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Not as that other man who, slow to see Last Line: They set your altar in the heart of youth! Subject(s): Altars; Friendship; Honor; Service TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed TO J. D. H. (KILLED AT SURREY C. H., OCTOBER, 1866), by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, forgive a wild lament Last Line: O sad life - to keep thee mine. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The TO JAMES SMITH, by ALEXANDER G. MURDOCH Poem Text First Line: O rare ben jonson!' cried an early wit Last Line: -- alex. G. Murdoch. Subject(s): Friendship TO JOSE MARIA PALACIO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Palacio, dear friend Last Line: High espino where is her plot of earth Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Friendship; Memory TO JULIUS HARE, WITH 'PERICLES AND ASPASIA.', by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julius, of three rare brothers, my fast friends Last Line: And knew the footstep of tyrtaean arndt. Subject(s): Friendship; Pericles (490-429 B.c.) TO LADY ANNE HAMILTON, by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too late I stayed - forgive the crime Last Line: Their plumage to his wings? Variant Title(s): Too Late I Stayed Subject(s): Friendship TO LOOK UPON THE FACE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too look upon then face of a dead friend Subject(s): Friendship TO MARCUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been far, and I Last Line: We shall succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christianity; Friendship; Future; Winter TO MARY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not alone while we live in the light Last Line: I shall look back at times, as I now have done. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship TO MARY, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky low down in distant west, is tinged with golden hue Last Line: My virtues few, my friendship true, and o'er my faults shed tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Friendship TO MISS D.T.; ON HER GIVING ME A DRAWING OF LITTLE STREET ARABS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, cleansed of tiber's and oblivion's slime Last Line: And beauty's best in unregarded things. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving TO MR SAVAGE, SON OF THE LATE EARL RIVERS, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sink not, my friend, beneath misfortune's weight Last Line: An able critic, but a willing friend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Friendship TO MR. CONGREVE , ON 'THE OLD BACHELOR', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When virtue in pursuit of fame appears Last Line: But my best praise is, that I am your friend. Subject(s): Congreve, William (1670-1729); Friendship TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 11. THE MEETING PLACE OF FRIENDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The meeting place of friends, I have heard tell Last Line: The meeting place of friends is in the heart. Subject(s): Conventions; Friendship; Assemblies; Meetings TO MR. JOHN KENNEDY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now kennedy, if foot or horse Last Line: An' gude be wi' you. Subject(s): Friendship; Poverty; Drinks & Drinking TO MR. MOTTEUX, ON HIS TRAGEDY CALLED BEAUTY IN DISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard, my friend,to write in such an age Last Line: So great a poet and so good a friend. Variant Title(s): To Peter Antony Motteux Subject(s): Friendship; Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718); Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Writing & Writers; Dramatists TO MR. W. HAMMOND, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou best of friendship, knowledge, and of art! Last Line: Their hopes, as friendship's longer liv'd than love. Subject(s): Friendship; Hammond, William (17th Century) TO MY AULD PIKE STAFF, by JAMES THOMSON (1825-1888) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My auld pike staff, my trusty frien' Last Line: Till I am gone. Subject(s): Friendship; Sticks TO MY BEST FRIEND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the wet-lipped wind that stirs the hedge Last Line: Words for the faithful meet, the good and true. Subject(s): Friendship TO MY DAUGHTER GOING OFF TO COLLEGE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: One day it will not be enough Last Line: And with your whole heart %you'll know where you've come. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MR. CONGREVE, ON HIS COMEDY, 'THE DOUBLE-DEALER', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Well then, the promised hour is come at last Last Line: You merit more; nor cou'd my love do less. Variant Title(s): To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Comedy Called The Double-dealer Subject(s): Comedy; Congreve, William (1670-1729); Friendship; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not live until this time Last Line: Immortal as our soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Owen, Anne (lewis) (1633-1692); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO MY FRIEND, by ANNE CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: I have never been rich before Last Line: And wealth is mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship TO MY FRIEND, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we should see one sowing seed Last Line: On heavenly hills. Subject(s): Friendship TO MY FRIEND AND PATRON, M. K. ESQ., by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And can my simple harp be strung Last Line: For thee, my father, and my friend? Subject(s): Friendship; Kent, Moss TO MY FRIEND ELIZABETH; WITH SOME POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A COLLECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest elizabeth, accept, I pray Last Line: Thought here, smiles there; perfection lies betwixt. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): To Elizabeth Read Subject(s): Friendship; Postage Stamps; Smiles TO MY FRIEND, ON LOSING HIS MOTHER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When it seems the field will stay yellow Last Line: To be licked, sound asleep, the memory %coming near enough to touch. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TO MY FRIENDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know your kindness for me, o, my friends Last Line: By all the wind and stars of night and day! Subject(s): Curses; Friendship; Kindness; Love; Sea; Ocean TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As there is music uninform'd by art Last Line: "it shares at once his fortune and its own." Subject(s): Friendship; Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Poetry & Poets; Praise TO MY MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND ON HER PLAY, FATAL-FRIENDSHIP, by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: With what concern I sat and heard you play Last Line: Our mutual friendship, may ne'er fatal be. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Nature; Plays & Playwrights TO MY OLD ARMCHAIR, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Well, well, old friend, we've had some jolly / times Last Line: And have no qualms about an old age pension. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me Last Line: Fer the name of william leachman and true manhood's jest the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Time TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, MASTER T. LEWES, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sees not my friend, what a deep snow Last Line: Doth with his tears but feed his foes. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Friendship TO O.W. HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear wendell, why need count the years Last Line: Deathless at least in epitaph? Subject(s): Friendship; Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) TO ONE WHO FAILED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you failed, because you failed Last Line: To brute men, dowered with dying hearts. Subject(s): Errors; Failure; Friendship; Love; Marriage; Mistakes; Fallacies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO PAULA, ON HER BIRTHDAY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Today on your 45th birthday, you wish to be Last Line: Your leg was bleeding, and you hadn't even been aware. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TO PHYLOCLES, INVITING HIM TO FRIENDSHIP, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Best of thy sex! If sacred friendship can Last Line: T' its native purity we will refine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TO REV. W. H. MILBURN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, we guide thee to the altar Last Line: There all shall know as they are known. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Religion; Theology TO RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friends are best! And so to you Last Line: Old friends are best! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Friendship; Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909) TO ROBERT CALVERLEY TREVELYAN & ELIZABETH TREVELYAN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When one in java and cathay Last Line: Had I not journeyed at your side. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO ROBIN FEDDEN, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A huge, but unpaved, place. An ancient halles Last Line: Katharine fedden called me true and worth-while friend. Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Youth TO S. E. D, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks, thanks, dear friend, for your present Last Line: And your kindly thoughts of me. Subject(s): Friendship; Peonies TO SEE HER IS A PICTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were shining in your hand Subject(s): Friendship TO SENSIBILITY, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sensibility's lov'd praise Last Line: With friendship, sympathy, and love, %and every finer thought Subject(s): Friendship TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, ON HIS PAINTING FOR ME THE STATUES.., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What god, what genius, did the pencil move Last Line: And strong as hercules. Variant Title(s): On Drawings Of The Statues Of Apollo, Venus, And Hercules Subject(s): Friendship; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Kniller, Gottfried TO SUNNYDALE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lies the trail to sunnydale Last Line: Up, friend! And let us take it. Subject(s): Friendship TO SYDNEY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not thine where marble-still and white Last Line: Waits on a stile. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship TO THE ARCHDEACON, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Under the sun is nothing new? Last Line: And now farewell, my heavenly friend. Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting TO THE AUTHOR OF THE FOREGOING PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By silvia if thy charming self be meant Last Line: And dies in woe, that thou mayst live in peace. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Beauty; Friendship; Hearts TO THE EARL OF CLARE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my youth! When young we roved Last Line: To prove a prophet here. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO THE JUDGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my earliest youth Last Line: Can't you arrange to come down? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Judges; Spring; Youth TO THE QUIET OBSERVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear old friend of us all in need Last Line: But all good things. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Friendship; March (month) TO THE REV. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE UNWIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unwin, I should but ill repay Last Line: I sink the poet in the friend. Subject(s): Friendship TO THOMAS MOORE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My boat is on the shore Last Line: And a health to thee, tom moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Friendship;farewell To Tom Moore Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) TO THOMAS MOORE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you, who in all names can tickle the town Last Line: And you'll be catullus, the regent mamurra. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO THOMAS MOORE (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing now Last Line: Oh thomas moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets TO THOS. FLOYD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fares it, friend, since I by fate annoy'd Last Line: The spirit that watcheth in me ev'n in my sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Friendship TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The larks are loud above our leagues of whin Last Line: Shines no less bright his full-sheaved harvest-home. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sun TODAY IS SATURDAY, by ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER Poem Source First Line: We started early, just as soon Subject(s): Friendship TOM O'ROUGHLEY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though logic-choppers rule the town Last Line: "I'd dance a measure on his grave." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Friendship TOM VAN ARDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom van arden, my old friend Last Line: . . . Tom van arden, my old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past; Time TOO SLOW, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OF THE LOVE THAT YOU POURED FORTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the love that you poured forth, dear friend Last Line: Not think so. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love; Relationships TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO A FRIEND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful eyes, fail not Last Line: Through the dark night by you. Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO ONE WHO IS WHERE THE ETERNAL ARE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass friend pass Last Line: A great star, growing, shining. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. WHEN I AM NEAR TO YOU, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I am near to you, dear friend Last Line: I find my deliverance in you. Subject(s): Friendship; Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! What a world I would create from my own, my lovers Last Line: We shall need no other world, no other worlds. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Earth; Friendship; Love; Socialism; World TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FORMS ETERNAL AS THE MOUNTAINS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, when for an instant my friends (and I myself) Last Line: Those other forms that move not from their place. Subject(s): Friendship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. O JOY DIVINE OF FRIENDS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O joy divine of friends Last Line: Fade but to symbols of that perfect union! Subject(s): Friendship TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. PHILOLAUS TO DIOCLES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often at dusk, dear friend, when thou art absent Last Line: So oft, in dreamless peace, close-linked with thee. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Peace; Separation; Isolation TOWSER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drove a horse for a long, long time Last Line: Down 'neath the buttercups—and it's true of men, just as well as pups. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Pets TRACE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendships with one or two, yes, three Last Line: Long since consumed Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Summer TRANSITION, by RAYMOND R. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: Where'er we turn, the specter waits Last Line: That all things work with joy, and sleep at close of day. Subject(s): Children; Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood; Dead, The TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May every light-wing'd moment bear Last Line: "the rich man's love, the poor man's blessing." Subject(s): Friendship TREASURES, by CHE GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: See what I've created Last Line: Seem funny %and inspire greater treasures Subject(s): Friendship TRIBUTE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: All the ingredients we need: Last Line: Waiting with spring flowers scarce as hen's teeth, %our hearts beating like mad. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TRIED AND TRUE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is like a march, where some Last Line: White raiment on the hills of peace. Subject(s): Friendship; Conduct Of Life TRISTAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Subject(s): Sea; Children; Desire; Friendship; Family Life; Ocean; Childhood; Relatives TRUE FRIEND, by ANN PLATO Poem Source First Line: Young persons, it is true, admire Last Line: This friend is ne'er to part Subject(s): Friendship TRUE FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Commend me to the friend that comes Subject(s): Friendship TRUE FRIENDSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis hard to find in life Last Line: "'tis death, death only, sets a measure" Subject(s): Friendship TRUE FRIENDSHIP, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou my true friend be? Last Line: Then love not mine, but me. Subject(s): Friendship TRUE FRIENDSHIP, by JAMEE Poem Source First Line: Sheik schubli, taken sick, was borne one day Subject(s): Friendship TRUE HAPPINESS IN LIFE COMES WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, by NICK SANTANA Poem Source First Line: One of the most valuable lessons Last Line: As they come your way Subject(s): Friendship; Love TRUE LOVE IS BLIND, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: True love, we know, is blind: defects that blight Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship TRUE SAFETY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the walls, or purple, that defends Last Line: A prince from foes; but 'tis his fort of friends. Subject(s): Friendship TWELVE ARTICLES, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest it may more quarrels breed Last Line: And continue special friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TWILIGHT, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Behind this barn two men are fighting Last Line: And now, again, they fight Subject(s): Fights; Friendship - False Friends; Quarrels TWILIGHT, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight it is, and the far woods are dim, and the Last Line: Beautiful souls who were gentle when I was a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Friendship TWO BOYS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These were two of the funniest boys Last Line: Where these two brothers lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Death; Friendship; Half-brothers; Dead, The TWO CATS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm very good friends with both our cats Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship TWO CHEROKEE SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A friend you resemble Last Line: Yai, ne, noo, way. E,noo,way,ha Subject(s): Friendship TWO FRIENDS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lydia and shirley have Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Friendship TWO LETTERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My dearest friend charles:-- Last Line: So be happy with your bertha hall. Subject(s): Friends, Fair-weather; Friendship; Letters TWO SEASONS, by CLARENCE BLENDON BURLEIGH Poem Text First Line: Oft through the summer vacation Last Line: Gainst the world just over the net. Subject(s): Friendship; Tennis TWO WOMEN MEET, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do not care about each other, these two Last Line: She hardly touched the food. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends TYLER'S LANE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I went walking Last Line: Down there in tyler's lane. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Childhood UNCHARTED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn when gardener Last Line: But no one will. Subject(s): Friendship UNCLE SAM TO JOHN BULL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John bullikins, my jo, john Last Line: John bullikins, my jo. Subject(s): Friendship; New York City - Revolutionary Period UNDEFEATED, by ROBERT FROMAN Poem Source First Line: Little square of earth Subject(s): Friendship UNDER OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES, by JOANNE CHILDERS Poem Source First Line: Amid the stench, funereal, of sprays Last Line: Among so many circumstantial friends? Subject(s): Friendship UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 20. TO F. J. S., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read, dear friend, in your dear face Last Line: Your flowers and thorns you bring with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship; Life UNDERWOODS: BOOK 2: 16. THE DEAREST FRIENDS ARE THE AULDEST FRIENDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth Last Line: And the grave's the place to seek them. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One line may, like a friend who knows us well Last Line: Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friends of mine, whose kindly Last Line: She folds away her wings and swoons therein. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Rhyme UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must noble hastings immaturely die Last Line: Monument is his spouses marble brest. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Friendship; Life; Soul; Dead, The US, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There are so many of us in new york, you know Last Line: This one's all about you Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Voices VALENTINE WITH HYPHENS, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: Without your warmth or laugh or hyphened-name Last Line: If not for halfness, which I offer whole Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Names; Valentine's Day VERN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When walking in a tiny rain Last Line: Nor mock the tears you have to hide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship VERN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When walking in a tiny rain Last Line: And let you snuggle down beside. %nor mock the tears you have to hide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship VERSES INSCRIBED TO MR. THOMAS DUNCAN, GLASGOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frien' tammie, I thocht that I coudna' dae better Last Line: Tween young lord carmichael an' baron polmood. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Letters VERSES TO SOME FRIENDS RETURNING FROM THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not the moments Last Line: Yours on the morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore VILLANELLE OF TE 'GALLERY BOYS'; TO L.W. AND F.C.M.B., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Light of heart, and joyous-lipped Last Line: Nectar 'mongst 'the gods' I sipped! Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness VIOLETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is deceiv'd by outward show Last Line: And inconsistent dreams of day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Friendship - False Friends; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Fair Weather Friends VISIONS IN VERSE: 6. FRIENDSHIP, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship! Thou soft, propitious pow'r! Last Line: He dares be honest, though he dies. Subject(s): Friendship VOTIVE TABLETS: FRIEND AND FOE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear is my friend -- yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good Last Line: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe shows what I should. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship WAIT NOT TILL I INVITE THEE, BUT OBSERVE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm glad to see thee when thou com'st Subject(s): Friendship WAITING FOR THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last time he came to see us Last Line: In simple cloth among his kind Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory WALKING AWAY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day Last Line: And love is proved in the letting go Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Growth; Parting WALKING AWAY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day Last Line: And love is proved in the letting go Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Growth WAS IT A FRIEND OR FOE WHO SPREAD THOSE LIES?, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Friendship WATCHMAN NEAR THE TOWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Friend, I'd let this tongue Last Line: May god give men what's rightful Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Mourning WATERHOUSE, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: For my friend an architect Last Line: To greet you again Subject(s): Absence; Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; Friendship WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN Poem Source First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel WE ARE BRETHREN A', by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A happy bit hame this auld world would Last Line: Come, gi'e me your hand, -- we are brethren a'. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Friendship WE COULD BE FRIENDS, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship WE LOVE BUT FEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, yes, we mean all kind words that we say" Last Line: "yet do these words read plainer, year by year: / we love but few" Subject(s): Friendship WE NEED TO FEEL MORE TO UNDERSTAND OTHERS, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source Last Line: We can once again trust each other Subject(s): Friendship; Love WE ONCE WERE CHILDREN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My child, we once were children Subject(s): Friendship WE THAT WERE FRIENDS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We that were friends to-night have found Last Line: Who have no children at their knees. Subject(s): Friendship; Love WEEK-END SONNET: 7, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fresh air moves like water round a boat Last Line: But, far and near: 'cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!'? Subject(s): Friendship WELCOME, by FERID ED-DIN ATTAR Poem Source First Line: One night shah mahmud, who had been of late Subject(s): Friendship WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: This christmas you came all the way Last Line: Yours from this day forward, to have %and to hold. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WELL! HELLO DOWN THERE, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Friendship WHAT IS A FRIEND?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A friend is one soul which oft-times dwells Last Line: Nor blow defiance at their door. Subject(s): Friendship; Soul WHAT IT USED TO BE LIKE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Tonight drove downtown Last Line: What little I %remember of it Subject(s): Art And Artists; Friendship WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to play with billy. He Last Line: A true good friend is a lot of fun! Subject(s): Friendship WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to play with billy. He Subject(s): Friendship WHAT JOY IS BETTER THAN THE NEWS OF FRIENDS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As mountain-baths to wild-fowls in their flight? Subject(s): Friendship WHAT MAKES A FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I am drinking, drink with me" Last Line: Be sad and sober too Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;friendship WHAT SHALL I DO, MY FRIEND?, by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Clemmer, Mary; Ames, Mary Clemmer Subject(s): Friendship WHAT SPEAKS TO ME NOW, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: I'm talking with my roommate, who continues with Last Line: Clearing his immense throat. A certain kind of rapture Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships WHAT TIME WILL GIVE US, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: What time will give us, if we take it, Last Line: Work lost, when one touch would clear the way, %when one time would save the day. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WHEN I AM DEAD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: When once I die, I wish no one Last Line: Pure, spotless whiteness desecrate. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Wishes; Dead, The WHEN I SAIL AWAY, by ELIZABETH CLARK HARDY Poem Source First Line: Sometime at eve when the tide is low Subject(s): Friendship; Religion WHEN IT'S BEEN LONG BETWEEN POEMS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: You speed through the day with your eye Last Line: Your grandmother singing o precious lord, %calling you in from the porch. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship WHEN THE MASK OF MY FRIEND FELL, by KHADI FALL Poem Source First Line: It happend in germany in a city called bremen Last Line: A mask I could hardly have believed she wore Subject(s): Deception; Friendship WHERE'ER THOU SAIL'ST WHO SAILED WITH ME, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Be thou my muse, my brother— Subject(s): Friendship WHITE FRIEND, by CHRIS FLEET Poem Source First Line: Last november I drove a white friend Last Line: The white soiled locks of george washington %disappearing into the corn Subject(s): Friendship; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WHO KNOWS?, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Some of his long time friends Last Line: Behavior & learn to %laugh at himself again Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Friendship WIFE AND CHILDREN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man who called the stars his children Last Line: Is the happiness of his friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Politics WIFE, CHILDREN AND FRIENDS, by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the black-lettered list to the gods Last Line: The glass which I fill to -- wife, children, and friends. Subject(s): Friendship WINTER, by LUIS KUTNER Poem Source First Line: Summer's rugged recklessnes, once defiant, now must repay Last Line: There is daily death to your %loyalty, if you do not avenge a friend falsely accused Subject(s): False Accusations; Friendship; Loyalty WINTER, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Neighbors; Sons; Friendship; Suicide; Divorce WINTER DROUGHT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First you cut your wrists and throat Subject(s): Suicide; Friendship WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves fit to have been poor juliet's cradle-rhyme Last Line: Dear friend, I plucked this herb of grace for you. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving WITH AN ARMCHAIR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the oak that framed this chair of old Last Line: That, seas between us, she is still his guest. Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship WITH MY FOOT IN MY MOUTH, by DENNIS LEE Poem Source First Line: The reason I clobbered Subject(s): Friendship WITHIN A BUDDING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich %in %expletive %surprise Last Line: Pent up for inking %the windswept ruin Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Women - Writers WITHIN YOU IS AN IDEAL., by JEAN LAMEY Poem Source Last Line: Within you is the promise of the future Subject(s): Friendship; Love WITHIN YOU IS THE STRENGTH TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, by LISA WROBLE Poem Source First Line: You are stronger than you think Subject(s): Friendship; Love WITNESSES, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses remember; golden noons recall Last Line: Remembers. We were young. Are we so old? Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Roses WORDS TO JOE CERAVOLO, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think tonight I am beginning to understand some impulses Last Line: You're o.K. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy WORK OF THE LIVING, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: While you're so ill, I should take Last Line: In your rose bed, your kitchen, %your days filled to overflowing. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WORLD FRIENDS, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Friends? Yes. Not only friends in flesh Subject(s): Friendship WREATHE THE BOWL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe the bowl / with flowers of soul Last Line: And leave dull earth behind us! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Friendship WRITING ON THE WALL, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I remember, they all were very young, I no longer so, but Last Line: Our knees and grew to the very water's edge. Sometimes there was a wind Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age WRITTEN AT THE PO-SHAN MONASTERY, by HSIN CH'I-CHI Poem Source First Line: I would rather be myself Subject(s): Friendship WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, FOR CHLORIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis friendship's pledge, my young, fair friend Last Line: These joys could he improve. Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Beauty; Dead, The YELLOW, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Hunched on the grey back of winter, Last Line: What would we do with a crown %of such yellow? Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love YESTERDAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I wish I knew Last Line: Today just couldn't wait! Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Memory; Past; Childhood YESTERDAYS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Time; Friendship YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Longtime hermano bob tells me Last Line: The view with no one in front or in back Subject(s): Friendship YOU ARE AN EXCEPTIONAL PERSON, by MARIAN TOMBERLIN Poem Source Last Line: Today and in the years to come Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU ARE YOUR OWN GREAT ASSET, by TERRY EVERTON Poem Source Last Line: Possibly know what is best for you %other than yourself Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU CAN BE ANYTHING., by ANN RUDACILLE Poem Source Last Line: The confidence I have in you Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU CAN MAKE SOMETHING HAPPY OUT OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, by NANCYE SIMS Poem Source First Line: Life can make choices for us Last Line: And so is the potential for happiness Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU CAN MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, by ALAN AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: Look within %and listen to your heart Last Line: You can do it. %you really can Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU DARNED OLD SKATE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John kennedy's a friend of mine Last Line: Well, then you know they love you. Subject(s): Friendship YOU HAVE SO MANY DREAMS TO LOOK FORWARD TO, by ADRIAN ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Our lives have so many Last Line: And your life with so much %happiness to look forward to Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: This life is yours Last Line: And make them come true Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU HAVE WITHIN YOU THE COURAGE TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS, by JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Source First Line: You should always be assured Last Line: They will help you find your own rainbow Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOU SMILED, by CALVIN O'JOHN Poem Source Subject(s): Friendship YOUNG FLOTSAM; TO H.H., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: We are caught like chaff in the breeze, and blown Last Line: But we are the men they made us! Subject(s): Friendship YOUNG FRIENDS, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, is all forgot? Last Line: It is not friendly, 't is not maidenly. Subject(s): Friendship YOUR DREAMS ARE WITHIN YOUR REACH, by SUSAN M. PAVLIS Poem Source First Line: The steps that %have brought you this far Last Line: A dream can never make it past %just being a wish Subject(s): Friendship; Love YOUR FRIEND, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said this Last Line: Until the next try Subject(s): Friendship YOUR LAMP OF FRIENDSHIP, by FLORA C. ROSENBERG Poem Text First Line: Hold high your lamp of friendship Last Line: Along many a weary mile. Subject(s): Friendship YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST, by M. C. HAECKER Poem Text First Line: You call it your little gray home in the west Last Line: In your little gray home in the west. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Home; Love; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States YOUTH AND AGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying Last Line: And tells the jest without the smile. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Youth |
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