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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 20. TO F. J. S., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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
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
I READ, dear friend, in your dear face
Your life's tale told with perfect grace;
The river of your life I trace
Up the sun-chequered, devious bed
To the far-distant fountain-head.
Not one quick beat of your warm heart,
Nor thought that came to you apart,
Pleasure nor pity, love nor pain
Nor sorrow, has gone by in vain;
But as some lone, wood-wandering child
Brings home with him at evening mild
The thorns and flowers of all the wild,
From your whole life, O fair and true
Your flowers and thorns you bring with you!
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