Table of Contents
Good Friends
No Man Is an Island John Donne 3
Meat Without Mirth Robert Herrick 4
Inviting a Friend to Supper Ben Jonson 5
Sonnet XXX William Shakespeare 7
Early Friendship Aubrey de Vere 8
A Wayfaring Song Henry van Dyke 9
The Arrow and the Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 10
To My Friend Francis Thompson 11
Friends Indeed F. S. Barnard 12
Emblems of Friendship John Imrie 13
Travelling William Wordsworth 14
This Lime-tree Bower My Prison Samuel Taylor Coleridge 15
On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour John Keats 18
Fast Friends
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends William Butler Yeats 21
The Memory of the Heart Daniel Webster 22
Friendship and Love Contrasted Benjamin Hine 23
Love and Friendship Emily Brontö 24
L'amitié Est L'amour Sans Ailes George Gordon Lord Byron 25
Spring Sara Teasdale 29
Friendship Henry David Thoreau 30
Passion in Friendship Bernhart Paul Holst 33
You smile upon your friend to-day A. E. Housman 35
Silence Paul Laurence Dunbar 36
A Song of Other Days Oliver Wendell Holmes 37
A Legacy John Greenleaf Whittier 40
Unkindnesse George Herbert 41
Past Friends
We Have Been Friends Together Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 45
If Thou Hast Lost a Friend Charles Swain 46
When You Go Away Ella Wheeler Wilcox 47
The Two Dreams Christopher Pearse Cranch 49
To a False Friend Thomas Hood 50
If anybody's friend be dead Emily Dickinson 51
The Pallid Wreath Walt Whitman 53
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen 54
