HAPPY is love or friendship when returned— The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned; Happy was Theseus, e'en in Tartarus, With his true heart-friend, good Pirithous. His Pylades Orestes lorn did bless Amid th' inhospitable Chalybes. Blest was Achilles in a friend long tried; Him living loved, for his sake gladly died! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALONE (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE LINES TO A FITFUL LOVER by MIRIAM BARRANGER NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1645 by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE DAWN PATROL by PAUL BEWSHER THE ESTRANGEMENT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 43 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |