Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME 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 | ||||||||
ONE line may, like a friend who knows us well, Re-ope the wound whose smart is not forgot; The word that doth another's sufferings tell May drop like tears on our own anguished spot, Where heart misjudged awaits its soothing spell. My verse, perchance, may reach you and restore, With lightning flash, the sleeping grief of old; Or by that one true word -- long waited for -- The sudden name of all you feel unfold, Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ALONE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME AU BORD DE DEAU by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME |
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