FRIENDSHIP.
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
Epigraph to friendship. R.W. EMERSON.
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweet'ner of life! and solder of society!
The Grave. R. BLAIR.
Friendship is the cement of two minds,
As of one man the soul and body is;
Of which one cannot sever but the other
Suffers a needful separation.
Revenge. G. CHAPMAN.
A friendship that like love is warm,
A love like friendship steady.
How Shall I Woo? T. MOORE.
Friendship's the image of
Eternity, in which there's nothing
Movable, nothing mischievous.
Endymion. J. LILLY.
Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
O the Joys, that came down shower-like,
Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,
Ere I was old!
Youth and Age. S.T. COLERIDGE.
'T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.
Burial of the Dead. J. KEBLE.
I praise the Frenchman,[A] his remark was shrewd,
How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.
Retirement. W. COWPER.
[Footnote A: La Bruyère, says Bartlett.]
Friendship's an abstract of love's noble flame,
'Tis love refined, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same.
Friendship: A Poem. CATH. PHILLIPS.
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
Night Thoughts. DR. E. YOUNG.
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.
Considerations by the Way. R.W. EMERSON.
But sweeter none than voice of faithful friend;
Sweet always, sweetest heard in loudest storm.
Some I remember, and will ne'er forget.
Course of Time, Bk, V. R. POLLOK.
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Iliad, Bk. IX. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
Nor hope to find
A friend, but what has found a friend in thee.
Night Thoughts. Night II. DR. E. YOUNG.
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied.
Friendship: An Ode. DR. S. JOHNSON.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Turn him, and see his threads: look if he be
Friend to himself, that would be friend to thee:
For that is first required, a man be his own;
But he that's too much that is friend to none.
Underwood. B. JONSON.
Lay this into your breast:
Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Duchess of Malfy. J. WEBSTER.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of
refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Evangeline. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia's Revels. B. JONSON.
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.
Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart;
And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
King Henry V. EARL OF ORRERY.
Be kind to my remains; and O, defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!
Epistle to Congreve. J. DRYDEN.
O summer friendship,
Whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in
Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off
In the autumn of adversity.
The Maid of Honor. P. MASSINGER.
Such is the use and noble end of friendship,
To bear a part in every storm of fate.
Generous Conqueror. B. HIGGONS.
Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.
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'T is thus in friendships: who depend
On many, rarely find a friend.
Fables: The Hare and many Friends. J. GAY.
Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.
The Answer. G. HERBERT.
What the declined is
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies,
Show not their mealy wings but to the summer.
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back,
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon, or to bear it.
On Friendship. W. COWPER.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend!
New Morality. G. CANNING.
Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love.
Much Ado about Nothing, Act ii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
If I speak to thee in Friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
If I mention Love's devoted flame,
Thou say'st I speak too boldly.
How Shall I Woo? T. MOORE.
Of all our good, of all our bad,
This one thing only is of worth,
We held the league of heart to heart
The only purpose of the earth.
More Songs from Vagabondia: Envoy. R. HOVEY.
It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth,
And it brooks wi' nae denial,
That the dearest friends are the auldest friends
And the young are just on trial.
Poems: In Scots. R.L. STEVENSON.
For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
The Hind and the Panther. J. DRYDEN.
O Friendship, flavor of flowers! O lively sprite of life!
O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalwart staunch of strife.
Of Friendship. N. GRIMOALD.