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Friendship Poetry
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A good deed or a kindness can not be measured in friendship. This poem, "The Arrow and the Song," shows how their influence can live on in the heart of a friend long after your kind word was spoken, or a special action was taken.
The Arrow and the Song
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shoot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Longfellow was a famous American poet. During his lifetime, there was a group of five of men known as the "Fireside Poets" of which he was a member. One of his most well-known works is "Paul Revere's Ride". Longfellow also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy."
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