Friendship Poems,9780679443704

Friendship Poems

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ISBN13: 9780679443704
ISBN10: 0679443703
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-05-10
Publisher(s): Everyman's Library
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Summary

A celebration of friendship in all its aspects--from the delight of making a new friend to the serene joys of longtime devotion. Poems about best friends, false friends, dear friends, lost friends, even animal friends. These poems have been selected from the work of great poets in all times and places, including Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Henry Thoreau, Shakespeare, Sappho, Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and many others.

Author Biography

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

Table of Contents

Foreword 11(4)
WHAT ARE FRIENDS?
Nature Assigns the Sun
15(1)
Emily Dickinson
Friendship
16(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
Quarrelling
17(1)
Tao Tschung Yu
Friendship
18(2)
Cole Porter
Unkindness
20(2)
George Herbert
I Would but I Can't
22(1)
Anon
A Friend in Need will be Around in Five Minutes
23(2)
Ogden Nash
Friendship
25(1)
Aztec
For Friends only
26(3)
W. H. Auden
Oaths of Friendship
29(1)
Anon
Friendship
30(3)
Henry Thoreau
Relationships
33(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
From The Church-Porch
34(1)
George Herbert
Love and Friendship
35(1)
Emily Bronte
From Friendship
36(1)
Katherine Philips
Are Friends Delight or Pain?
37(1)
Emily Dickinson
My Lovely Friends
38(1)
Sappho
To me, Fair Friend
39(1)
William Shakespeare
From Friendship
40(5)
William Cowper
THE PLEASURES OF FRIENDSHIP
The Pleasures of Friendship
45(1)
Stevie Smith
If You and I, Julius, old Friend
46(1)
Martial
We Two Boys Together Clinging
47(1)
Walt Whitman
Being her Friend
48(1)
John Masefield
From An Epistele to Master John Selden
49(1)
Ben Jonson
Companion - North-east Dug-out
50(1)
Ivor Gurney
The Sunlight on the Garden
51(2)
Louis Macneice
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
53(4)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sitting at Night
57(1)
Om Ui-Gil
From The Choice
58(1)
John Pomfret
At Lemmons
59(1)
C. Day Lewis
My Old Friend Prepared a Chicken
60(1)
Meng Hao-Jan
From An Epistle Answering to One
61(4)
Ben Jonson
GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Mending Wall
65(2)
Robert Frost
Neighbours
67(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Nature Notes: Dandelions
68(1)
Louis Machniece
Meeting
69(2)
Boris Pasternak
La Gorgue
71(2)
Ivor Gurney
A Time to Talk
73(4)
Robert Frost
SOCIAL LIFE
The Mixer
77(1)
Louis Macneice
Office Friendships
78(1)
Gavin Ewart
Say about Seven
79(2)
Ogden Nash
The Feckless Dinner-party
81(3)
Walter De La Mare
Inviting a Friend to Supper
84(2)
Ben Jonson
Ode to Ben Jonson
86(1)
Robert Herrick
Of Friendship
87(2)
Charles Stuart Calverley
Vers de Societe
89(2)
Philip Larkin
Last Night
91(1)
Martial
In the Garden
92(2)
Walter De La Mare
Leaving
94(5)
Richard Wilbur
DUMB FRIENDS
Frederick Kuh, Manx Cat
99(1)
Robert Lowell
From Jubilate Agno
100(2)
Christopher Smart
Last Words to a Dumb Friend
102(3)
Thomas Hardy
Flush or Faunus
105(1)
E. B. Browning
Bounce to Pope
106(2)
A. D. Hope
Argus
108(1)
Alexander Pope
The Pardon
109(2)
Richard Wilbur
An Epitaph
111(1)
William Watson
Epitaph of a Dog
111(1)
Anon
My Pet Hare
112(1)
William Cowper
From Philip Sparrow
113(2)
John Skelton
Lux, My Fair Falcon
115(1)
Thomas Wyatt
Partridge
116(1)
Agathias
Good-night
117(1)
Edward Thomas
A Dumb Friend
118(2)
Christina Rossetti
From Desk
120(2)
Marina Tsvetayeva
Tobacco Plant
122(5)
Ivor Gurney
PORTRAITS
Way of Preface
127(2)
Edward Lear
Friends
129(2)
W. B. Yeats
A Letter from Brooklyn
131(2)
Derek Walcott
Hearing that his Friend
133(1)
Wang Chien
Townshend
134(5)
Ivor Gurney
POETS TOGETHER
To a Friend
139(1)
Oliver St John Gogarty
From An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
140(2)
Alexander Pope
To E. T.
142(1)
Robert Frost
To E. Fitzgerald
143(2)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Supper with Lindsay
145(2)
Theodore Roethke
To Delmore Schwartz
147(2)
Robert Lowell
The Sun Used to Shine
149(2)
Edward Thomas
This Life on Earth
151(1)
Kalidasa
To Mrs M. A. at Parting
152(3)
Katherine Philips
For John Berryman
155(4)
Robert Lowell
STRANGERS
The World State
159(1)
G. K. Chesterton
The Stranger
160(2)
R. M. Rilke
The Lonely Man
162(2)
Randall Jarrell
These Strangers in a Foreign World
164(1)
Emily Dickinson
Strange Meeting
165(2)
Wilfred Owen
Karma
167(1)
E. A. Robinson
Provide, Provide
168(2)
Robert Frost
Best Society
170(2)
Philip Larkin
The Guest
172(1)
R. M. Rilke
To his Friend to Avoid Contention of Words
173(1)
Robert Herrick
To a False Friend
174(1)
Thomas Hood
A Light Woman
175(3)
Robert Browning
West London
178(1)
Matthew Arnold
In the Night
179(4)
Stevie Smith
ABSENT FRIENDS
Friendship
183(1)
Octavio Paz
The Mill
184(2)
Richard Wilbur
To Mr I. L.
186(1)
John Donne
Sea Canes
187(1)
Derek Walcott
19 October
188(7)
Alexander Pushkin
As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
195(2)
A. E. Housman
Mr Flood's Party
197(3)
E. A. Robinson
The Unseen Playmate
200(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Blue Hills over the North Wall
201(1)
Li Po
Farewell
202(2)
Ivor Gurney
Fletcher's Lament for His Friend
204(1)
John Fletcher
To E. T.: 1917
205(1)
Walter De La Mare
Felix Randal
206(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lean Gaius
208(1)
Lucilius
On the Death of Countess Luise Schwerin
209(2)
R. M. Rilke
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
211(2)
John Dryden
York: In Memoriam W. H. Auden
213(6)
Joseph Brodsky
LOOKING BACK
Tam Cari Capitis
219(1)
Louis Macneice
Heraclitus
220(1)
William Johnson Cory
If Anybody's Friend be Dead
221(2)
Emily Dickinson
Two Friends
223(1)
Norman Maccaig
To a Friend
224(1)
Hartley Coleridge
From On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
225(2)
Abraham Cowley
The Old Familiar Faces
227(2)
Charles Lamb
Dreaming that I Went
229(1)
Po Chu-I
The Meeting
230(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Felix Antonius
232(1)
Henry Newbolt
The Word
233(1)
John Masefield
May and Death
234(1)
Robert Browning
School and Schoolfellows
235(4)
Winthrop Praed
Old Friends
239(2)
John Betjeman
The Broken Friendship
241(1)
Stevie Smith
If Memory Serves
242(1)
Martial
Paying Calls
243(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Chums
244(1)
Theodore Roethke
To my Friends
245(1)
Primo Levi
A Little Health
246(1)
Anon
Acknowledgments 247(4)
Index of First Lines 251

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