Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRIENDSHIP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL 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 | ||||||||
NO wail of grief can equal answer win: Love's faltering echo may but ill express The grief for grief, nor more than faintly mock The primal cry of some too vast distress. Or is it for fair company of joy We ask an equal echo from the heart? A certain loneliness is ever ours, And friendship mourns her still imperfect art. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86 by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862] by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL |
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