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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FRIENDSHIP - FALSE FRIENDS Matches Found: 27 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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