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• Wife, Children, and Friends

  When the black-lettered list to the gods was presented
  (The list of what Fate for each mortal intends),
  At the long string of ills a kind goddess relented, …

  William Robert Spencer

• Benedicite

  God’s love and peace be with thee, where
  Soe’er this soft autumnal air
  Lifts the dark tresses of thy hair! …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• “Not marble, not the gilded monuments”

  Sonnet Lv.
  not marble, not the gilded monuments
  Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; …

  William Shakespeare

• The Dead Friend

  From “In Memoriam”
  XXII.
  THE PATH by which we twain did go, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson

  HE ’s gane, he ’s gane! he ’s frae us torn,
  The ae best fellow e’er was born!
  Thee, Matthew, Nature’s sel’ shall mourn …

  Robert Burns

• “And doth not a meeting like this”

  And doth not a meeting like this make amends
  For all the long years I ’ve been wand’ring away—
  To see thus around me my youth’s early friends, …

  Thomas Moore

• We Love but Few

  Oh, yes, we mean all kind words that we say
  To old friends and to new;
  Yet doth this truth grow clearer day by day: …

  Anonymous

• A Temple to Friendship

  “a Temple to Friendship,” cried Laura, enchanted,
  “I ’ll build in this garden; the thought is divine.”
  So the temple was built, and she now only wanted …

  Thomas Moore

• Platonic

  I Had sworn to be a bachelor, she had sworn to be a maid,
  For we quite agreed in doubting whether matrimony paid;
  Besides, we had our higher loves,—fair science ruled my heart, …

  William B. Terrett

• The Boys

  From “Poems of the Class of ’Twenty-nine”
  [Harvard]
  HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Cane-Bottomed Chair

  In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars,
  And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars,
  Away from the world and its toils and its cares, …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Welcome

  From the Persian by Edward Fitzgerald
  ONE night Shah Mahmúd, who had been of late
  Somewhat distempered with Affairs of State, …

  Faríd-Uddín Attar

• Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius

  From “Julius Cæsar,” Act IV. Sc. 3.
  Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS.
  CASSIUS.—That you have wronged me doth appear in this: …

  William Shakespeare

• “Wreathe the bowl”

  WREATHE the bowl
  With flowers of soul,
  The brightest wit can find us; …

  Thomas Moore

• The Mahogany-Tree

  Christmas is here;
  Winds whistle shrill,
  Icy and chill, …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Ballad of Bouillabaisse

  A Street there is in Paris famous,
  For which no rhyme our language yields,
  Rue Neuve des Petits Champs its name is— …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Dead Poet-Friend

  From the Greek by W. Cory
  THEY told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead;
  They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. …

  Callimachus

• To Seek a Friend

  Extracts from “Friendship”
  WHAT virtue, or what mental grace,
  But men unqualified and base …

  William Cowper

• Advice

  Modernized by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon
  IF ye would love and lovèd be,
  In mind keep well these thingis three, …

  William Dunbar

• The Friend

  From “On Friendship”
  OF all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
  What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? …

  Nicholas Grimald

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