Your words came just when needed. Like a breeze, Blowing and bringing from the wide salt sea Some cooling spray, to meadow scorched with heat And choked with dust and clouds of sifted sand That hateful whirlwinds, envious of its bloom, Had tossed upon it. But the cool sea breeze Came laden with the odors of the sea And damp with spray, that laid the dust and sand And brought new life and strength to blade and bloom So words of thine came over miles to me, Fresh from the mighty sea, a true friend's heart, And brought me hope, and strength, and swept away The dusty webs that human spiders spun Across my path. Friend -- and the word means much -- So few there are who reach like thee, a hand Up over all the barking curs of spite And give the clasp, when most its need is felt, Friend, newly found, accept my full heart's thanks. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIRED by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE BLIND by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE MOTHER'S HOPE by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD SONNET: INSCRIPTION FOR A PORTRAIT OF DANTE by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO THE ROSE-BUD; TO A YOUNG LADY by WILLIAM BROOME |