Famous Friendship Poems, 18 Short Classic Poems about Friends


	Famous Friendship Poems Enjoy our collection of famous friendship poems; short classic poems to share with your friends. The poems were written many years ago but like that of a true friend, their famous words about friendship still apply today. These poems have become famous because of the Poet's ability to express their thoughts about being friends and about what friendship means. Share these famous poems about friendship with people who have made a difference in your life - your friends! In our lives, we all need people we can depend on and friends along with family complete our life relationships. Great words for reflection on what constitutes friendship. Short Poems / Friendship Poems / - related Meaningful Friendship Quotes Emblems Of Friendship Poet: John Imrie, A Canadian Poet, 1846-1902 Friendship is a golden band Linking life with life, Heart to heart, and hand to hand, Antidote to strife. Friendship is a silken cord Beautiful and strong, Guarding, by each kindly word, Loving hearts from wrong. Friendship is a beacon-light On life’s rocky shore, Brightest in our darkest night When the breakers roar. Friendship is an iron shield Where life’s cruel darts Ever may be forced to yield Ere they wound true hearts. Friendship is the gift of God Freely to us given, As the flowers that gem the sod, Or the light of heaven! A Time To Talk Poet: Robert Frost When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, 'What is it?' No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit. Love and Friendship By Sydney Smith I am for frank explanations with friends in case of affronts sometimes save a perishing friendship; sometimes they even place it on a firmer basis than before. Secret discontent always end badly. And by the way, we ought to remember that the word friendship applies to relationships in the family quite as much as with outsiders. Somebody once said that love may not be any part of friendship but friendship must always exist for love to be happy. Wise words about what friendship is and is not. Love in a friendship is a two way street. Let the verses be ones that remind you about loving a friend! Friendship Thoughts Famous Theologian: St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 354 - 430 The love of friendship should be gratuitous. You ought not to have or to love a friend for what he will give you. If you love him for the reason that he will supply you with money or some other temporal favor, you love the gift rather than him. A friend should be loved freely for himself, and not for anything else The Arrow and The Song Famous Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet, 1807 - 1882 I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. How Beautiful Is Youth! Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings. Story without end. Each maid a heroine And each man A friend! Love & Friendship Poet: Eloise A. Skimings Like a rosebud opening in spring Thy name is soft and sweet; Filling the heart with rapturous throbs When thou art by. Like the dew on the morning flowers Before the sun's rays fall, Love and friendship hover around us When thou art nigh. Work For Friendship Poet: J. J. Thorne The duties of friendship to perform, Will keep our thoughts wide awake; Make life true and warm, For friendship's sake. Cursed is he that makes envy, Lies, tattles and fraternity break; Speak in praise and speak the truth, For friendship's sake. Love warms and never alarms, Sweet as lilies of the lake; Row your boat and gather charms. For friendship's sake. If peace and harmony through human regard, We desire to make; We will work if it be hard; For friendship's sake. In pursuit and plod for wealth, Let honesty hold the stake; Do not hate the man of stealth, For friendship's sake. Live upright, honest and fair, Give rather than take; In brotherly love do you share. For friendship's sake. Be A Friend by Edgar A. Guest Be a friend. You don't need money: Just a disposition sunny; Just the wish to help another Get along some way or other.... Read the complete poem, Be A Friend A Friend's Greeting by Edgar A. Guest I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me; I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way... Read more A Friend's Greeting The Making Of Friends by Edgar A. Guest If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us along, If each every minute looked after himself and good things all went to the strong, If nobody cared just a little for you, and nobody thought about me, And we stood all alone to the battle of life, what a dreary old world it would be! More verses The Making Of Friends Wanted, A Friend Poet: Edward Rowland Sill The applicant must be rather old, In order to be fitted to give advice A limited amount of it wisely; And at the same time rather young, In order to receive it in liberal quantity And in a meek frame of mind. He must be of medium height, intellectually, and In the enjoyment of robust spiritual health. A written guarantee must be given of freedom From all contagious defects of character! A Friend Or Two Poet: Wilbur D. Nesbit There is all of pleasure and all of peace, In a friend or two. And all your troubles may find release, In a friend or two. It's in the grip of a friendly hand On native soil or in foreign land, But the world is made — do you understand? — Of a friend or two. How To Have Friends Poet: David V Bush And would you have a host of friends. On land or on the sea? If that you would - just bear in mind:. That YOU a friend must be. And would you have the greatest joy, A joy that you can lend? Go slip your hand into his palm And say, "I am your friend." Friends Poet: Dr. Rosalie Carter I think that God will never send A gift so precious as a friend, A friend who always understands And fills each need as it demands Whose loyalty will stand the test, When skies are bright or overcast. Who sees the faults that merit blame. But keeps on loving just the same; Who does far more than creeds could do To make us good, to make us true, Earth's gifts a sweet enjoyment lend But only God can give a friend. Friends Poet: David V. Bush Ah, friend perhaps we’ve never met In the battle of the race; But if you’ve bled and suffered too, We’re friends, tho friends in space. If you have slipped your kindly hand Into the palm of one who’s been In trouble sore, or dire disgrace, Why then YOU ARE MY FRIEND Prized Friendship Poet: Caleb Davis Bradlee Your friendship we have prized indeed, In hours of joy and times of need, A glorious dower! In Church and home we've joined the hand In fellowship right true and grand, A massive tower! Long may our lives on earth be spared, Loud be our mutual love declared, That all may hear! And when at last the trump shall sound, And we the end of life have found, We'll have no fear. And when we meet in God's own home, And when we've heard the Savior's "Come," We'll still be one! Nothing shall break our union true! Father, make it fresh and new, Through Christ, the Son! Steady Friend Poet: John Greenleaf Whittier O one in sun and shade the same, In weal and woe my steady friend, Whatever by that holy name The angels comprehend. Not blind to faults and fetters, thou Hast never failed the good to see. Nor judged by one unseemly bough The upward struggling tree. Through all the shadows of my way Thy smile hath fallen soft and clear — And at the close of my life's day May it still seem as near. 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