A Poem of True Friendship:
A Friend
What is the meaning of friendship? In this poem of true friendship, we can see that sometimes we can have a friend whom we have a relationship with that is so close that it is almost as if we share the same soul. Most of us have several friends, but we usually only have one or two best friends. This poem is about that extra-special relationship.
A Friend
by Lucy Larcom
Life offers no joy like a friend;
Fulfilment and prophecy blend
In the throb of a heart with its own,
A heart where we know and are known.
Yet more than thy friend unto thee,
Is the friendship hereafter to be,
When the flower of thy life shall unfold
Out of hindering, and darkness, and cold.
Love mocks thee, whose mounting desire
Doth not to the Perfect aspire;
Nor lovest thou the soul thou wouldst win
To shut with thine emptiness in.
A friend! Deep is calling to deep!
A friend! the heart wakes from its sleep
To behold the world lit by one face;
With one heavenward step to keep pace.
O heart wherein all hearts are known,
Whose infinite throb stirs our own!
O Friend beyond friends! what are we,
Who ask so much less, yet have Thee?
~Lucy Larcom (1824 - 1893)
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Lucy was the ninth child in a family of ten children.
At the age of 11, her family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts and for the next 10 years, until the age of 21, Lucy worked in the cotton mills near her home.
It was during this time period that she wrote many of her songs, poems, and letters describing her life.
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