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To Seek a Friend

Extracts from “Friendship”
WHAT virtue, or what mental grace,
But men unqualified and base
  Will boast it their possession?
Profusion apes the noble part
Of liberality of heart,
  And dulness, of discretion.

If every polished gem we find...

Poet: William Cowper
The Poet’s Friend

[Lord Bolingbroke]
From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV.
  COME then, my friend! my genius! come along;
O master of the poet, and the song!
And while the muse now stoops, or now ascends,
To man’s low passions, or their glorious ends,
Teach me, like...

Poet: Alexander Pope
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder

Friend of Humanity
NEEDY 1 knife-grinder! whither are you going?
Rough is the road; your wheel is out of order.
Bleak blows the blast;—your hat has got a hole in ’t;
          So have your breeches!

Weary knife-grinder! little think the proud ones,...

Poet: George Canning