Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS: A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE 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 | ||||||||
IF this be friendship -- that one broken hour (O fragile link in all the loving years!) Can cast our hearts asunder, Time appears Frightful indeed, since all our vaunted power, Wherewith we built high hope, like some strong tower, Crumbles to dust, where earthly passion leers. What of our laughter? Aye, what of our tears That should have only watered Friendship's flower? If this be friendship, I can never know Again the magic faith I boasted of; One deed of mine has crushed the house of love, And every stone to its old place must go. Shame be to our endurance if we killed The sinews that can help us to rebuild! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT HOBOKEN, 1825 by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT by NATHANIEL COTTON I OFTEN THINK by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS THE FEATHER by FORD MADOX FORD FRIAR-BACON: LOVE-SUPPLANTER by ROBERT GREENE TO A FALSE FRIEND by THOMAS HOOD FRIEND AND FOE by WINIFRED LUCAS CITY ROOFS by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE |
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