Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRIENDSHIP, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS 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 | ||||||||
To meet a friendship such as mine, Such feelings must the soul refine, As are not oft of mortal birth; -- 'T is love, without a stain of earth. Looks are its food, its nectar sighs, Its couch the lips, its throne the eyes, The soul its breath, and so possest, Heaven's raptures reign in mortal breast. Though Friendship be its earthly name, Purely from highest Heaven it came, 'T is seldom felt for more than one, And scorns to dwell with Venus' son. Him let it view not, or it dies Like tender hues of morning skies, Or morn's sweet flower, of purple glow. When sunny beams too ardent grow. A charm o'er every object plays -- All looks so lovely while it stays, So softly forth, in rosier tides, The vital flood ecstatic glides, That, wrung by grief to see it part, Its dearest drop escapes the heart; Such drop, I need not tell thee, fell While bidding it, for thee, farewell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND NO RESURRECTION by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL ALMSWOMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO AN ENEMY by MAXWELL BODENHEIM SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES |
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