LOVE on roses sweetly sleeps, But when storms their peril pour, Hail to Friendship, she who keeps Vigil at the prison door! Love, the tyrant, makes to flow Tears which when he will he dries; On the chain fresh weight will throw, To share the burden Friendship tries. Love on roses sweetly sleeps, But when storms their peril pour, Hail to Friendship, she who keeps Vigil at the prison door! When late amid our hundred gaols My muse had found the patriot's fate, Scarce was she barred within the rails, Friendship came rapping at the gate. Love on roses sweetly sleeps, But when storms their peril pour, Hail to Friendship, she who keeps Vigil at the prison door! Thrice happy, who when freed from chains, And hate, and pity's helpless sigh Forgotten; thinks how 'mid his pains Friendship stood undaunted by. Love on roses sweetly sleeps, But when storms their peril pour, Hail to Friendship, she who keeps Vigil at the prison door! Friends, what is fame to him who's bent 'Neath tyranny? Let's quit renown, Forego the marble monument And pillowed sleep on couch of down. Love on roses sweetly sleeps, But when storms their peril pour, Hail to Friendship, she who keeps Vigil at the prison door! In safe seclusion let us meet, And laugh at winter's wasting touch; I think e'en Time he may defeat, Who's got from out the gaoler's clutch. Love on roses sweetly slecps, But when storms their peril pour, Hail to Friendship, she who keeps Vigil at the prison door! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA by MINA LOY POOR POLL by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES BEDTIME by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE FROLIC by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL ENVOI: DEATH (2) by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) S. JAMES BP. OF JERUSALEM by JOSEPH BEAUMONT TRUE JEWISH FAITH by ISIDOR BUSH A PRAYER USED BY FRANCIS I WHEN HE WAS AT WAR WITH CHARLES V by JOHN BYROM |