@3Neighbour of the near domain, Stay awhile your passing wain! Though to give is more your way, Take a gift from me to-day! From my homely store I bring Signs of my poor husbanding; -- Here a spike of purple phlox, Here a spicy bunch of stocks, Mushrooms from my moister fields, Apples that my orchard yields, -- Nothing, -- for the show they make, Something, -- for the donor's sake; Since for ten years we have been Best of neighbours ever seen; We have fronted evil weather, Nip of critic's frost, together; We have shared laborious days, Shared the pleasantness of praise; Brother not more close to brother, We have cheered and helped each other: Till so far the fields of each Into the other's stretch and reach, That perchance when both are gone Neither may be named alone.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CALM [CALME] by JOHN DONNE LOVE'S NEW PHILOSOPHY by PHILIP AYRES FALLING STARS by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT OF FIVE DAYS OLD by ELIZABETH BOYD AFTER HARVEST by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE THE CARNIVAL OF 1848 by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER |