Love and Friendship Poems

Hand in Hand

Love and friendship go hand in hand
You can't be a friend if you demand.
You care about your friends
And to them love you do extend.

You can not care without a loving feeling
It is like being alive without breathing.
Love is shown in many ways
It may be simply, "have a good day".

Love is being happy about all the things
That to your life a friend does bring.
It's being there when times are tough
Helping each other get through the rough.

When you love someone it does show
And our love for our friends can only grow.
Being there for each other
Sharing love, like that of a brother.

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:
We love but few.

We love! we love! What easy words to say,
And sweet to hear,
When sunrise splendor brightens all the way,
And, far and near,

Are breath of flowers and carolling of birds,
And bells that chime;
Our hearts are light: we do not weigh our words
At morning time!

But when the matin music all is hushed,
And life's great load
Doth weigh us down, and thick with dust
Doth grow the road,

Then do we say less often that we love.
The words have grown!
With pleading eyes we look to Christ above,
And clasp our own.

Their lives are bound to ours by mighty bands
No mortal strait.
Nor Death himself, with his prevailing hands,
Can separate.

The world is wide, and many friends are dear,
And friendships true;
Yet do these words read plainer, year by year:
We love but few.

Admire and Love Them

Those who would make friends must cultivate
The qualities which are admired and which attract.
You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness;
You must be magnanimous and tolerant;
You must look upward and be hopeful, cheery and optimistic.

No one will be attracted by a gloomy pessimist
If you have friends, don't be afraid to express your friendship;
Don't be afraid to tell them you admire or love them.

A lady was asked how she managed to get along so well
With disagreeable people.
"It is very simple," she replied; " all I do is to try to make
The most of their good qualities and pay no attention to their disagreeable ones."
No better formula by which to win and hold friends could be found.