EPH. WHAT Friendship is, Ardelia, show. ARD. 'Tis to love as I love you. EPH. This account, so short (though kind), Suits not my enquiring mind. Therefore farther now repeat: What is Friendship when complete? ARD. 'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From the tongue, the heart, the hand; 'Tis to mortgage house and land; For a friend be sold a slave; 'Tis to die upon a grave, If a friend therein do lie. EPH. This indeed, though carried high; This, though more than e'er was done Underneath the rolling sun, This has all been said before. Can Ardelia say no more? ARD. Words indeed no more can show: @3But 'tis to love, as I love you@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TOWER OF SKULLS by ISAAC ROSENBERG NOTHING TO WEAR' by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER LUCY (2) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 9. A MAD MAID'S SONG by GORDON BOTTOMLEY EARTH TO EARTH by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: THE HALL BOYS by BERTON BRALEY MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE KEEPING-ROOM by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH |