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Friendship - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sonnet - William Shakespeare
Taken from "Essays and Poems" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, arranged by GF Maine, published by Collins in 1954.
FRIENDSHIP
A ruddy drop of manly blood
SONNET
...When to the session of sweet silent thought
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
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İ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
I fancied he was fled,
And, after many a year,
Glowed unexhausted kindliness
Like daily sunrise there.
My careful heart was free again-
O friend, my bosom said,
THrough thee alone the sky is arched,
Through thee the rose is red,
All things through thee takes nobler form
And look beyond the earth,
The mill-round of our fate appears
A sun-path in thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.
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İ William Shakespeare
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in deathıs dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanishıd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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