Potential Titles: Friend
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Like best friends in a maze - Kwame Alexander "How to Write a Poem: Celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye"
All the friends of daylight flee - Alun "The Nightingale" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Join with their friends in the Grasshopper's dance - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"
Sweet Finesse and her cold friend, Necessity - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
A warm chat with friends gone sour - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"
Needed some help from old friends - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"
Strong friend of souls - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Dust about the doors of friends - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
To friends a shadow shedding stars - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"
His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
With friends that never failed - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
The wind like an old friend - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"
To grieve with our common friends - Jim Daniels "Making a Case for the Letter"
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Sorrow's true and only friend - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"
Our sentimental friend the moon - T.S. Eliot "Conversation Galante"
To inspire the understanding of a friend - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Yellow I see is my close friend - Zona Gale "Hokku"
They stand to him each one a friend - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
Lost hours, lost friends, lost pleasures - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Only solitude is a lasting friend - Jin Ha "A Center" (translated by the author)
Must be friends with silence - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
A road our dearest friends have gone - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
No friend of mine stops my dance - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"
Silent friend that guarded well - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"
Some friend in his generous way - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
No friend to ease the heart's pain - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Considerate friends on life's pilgrimage - Lermontof "Prayer [Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Spendthrift Love's false friends - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"
Friends that deserved a sweeter bed - John Masefield "Waste"
Trust death as a friend - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
Friends with death - Edna St Vincent Millay "Love Is Not All"
Should fortune frown and false friends flee - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Made friends in a left-handed trance - "Nonsense"
Friends with the hard white stars - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Ghosts of friends follow us here - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"
A friend you've learned not to trust entirely - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
No friends in sable weeds appear - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
Any friend that's been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine - John Prine
To guard the relics of a friend - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
That mirrors a friend's face to memory - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
And sometimes speak of Friends forsaken - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"
My loyal friend, the house wren - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"
Some of our friends who should be alive - Tim Seibles "Faith"
Make me worthy of my friends - Frank Dempster Sherman "A Prayer"
As a friend long desired - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Another friend that you could trust with a secret - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Friend of hopes foregone - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
The camp-fires of my eternal friend - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"
Whispering friends in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
All the friendless way hedged with offence - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Nor fell Misfortune's friendless sway - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"
The friendly ghost that was your love and mind - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
The faint flowing speech of the friendly blue - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Quiet street and the friendly door - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"
When friendly summer calls again - Thomas Hardy "Summer Schemes"
A friendly sunbeam's flutter - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "In Summer Twilight"
Daring and friendly souls - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
Love glorious in his friendly might - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"
Through the friendly silence of the moon - Keith Taylor "Through the Friendly Silence of the Moon"
Friendly thoughts were cliffs to me - Henry David Thoreau "The Departure"
Whispered friendly oracles - John Updike "Endpoint"
Soft friendships of pretty paint and kindnesses of mortar - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"
With steady eyes of awful friendship - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
Who friendship seal in wine - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
The friendship of the cherry trees - Toi Derricotte "Cherry blossoms"
Wines of mirth and friendship - F.W. Harvey "A Christmas Wish"
Poured out the cup of old friendship - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The friendship of a sea urchin - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
The friendship of an independent star - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
One endeared by Friendship's strongest ties - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
What friendship does to time - Edwin Torres "Territory"
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
As a beggar walks unfriended ways - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
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Like best friends in a maze - Kwame Alexander "How to Write a Poem: Celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye"
All the friends of daylight flee - Alun "The Nightingale" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Join with their friends in the Grasshopper's dance - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"
Sweet Finesse and her cold friend, Necessity - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
A warm chat with friends gone sour - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"
Needed some help from old friends - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"
Strong friend of souls - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Dust about the doors of friends - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
To friends a shadow shedding stars - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"
His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
With friends that never failed - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
The wind like an old friend - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"
To grieve with our common friends - Jim Daniels "Making a Case for the Letter"
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Sorrow's true and only friend - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"
Our sentimental friend the moon - T.S. Eliot "Conversation Galante"
To inspire the understanding of a friend - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Yellow I see is my close friend - Zona Gale "Hokku"
They stand to him each one a friend - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
Lost hours, lost friends, lost pleasures - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Only solitude is a lasting friend - Jin Ha "A Center" (translated by the author)
Must be friends with silence - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
A road our dearest friends have gone - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
No friend of mine stops my dance - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"
Silent friend that guarded well - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"
Some friend in his generous way - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
No friend to ease the heart's pain - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Considerate friends on life's pilgrimage - Lermontof "Prayer [Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Spendthrift Love's false friends - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"
Friends that deserved a sweeter bed - John Masefield "Waste"
Trust death as a friend - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
Friends with death - Edna St Vincent Millay "Love Is Not All"
Should fortune frown and false friends flee - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Made friends in a left-handed trance - "Nonsense"
Friends with the hard white stars - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Ghosts of friends follow us here - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"
A friend you've learned not to trust entirely - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
No friends in sable weeds appear - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
Any friend that's been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine - John Prine
To guard the relics of a friend - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
That mirrors a friend's face to memory - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
And sometimes speak of Friends forsaken - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"
My loyal friend, the house wren - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"
Some of our friends who should be alive - Tim Seibles "Faith"
Make me worthy of my friends - Frank Dempster Sherman "A Prayer"
As a friend long desired - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Another friend that you could trust with a secret - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Friend of hopes foregone - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"
The camp-fires of my eternal friend - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"
Whispering friends in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
All the friendless way hedged with offence - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Nor fell Misfortune's friendless sway - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"
The friendly ghost that was your love and mind - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
The faint flowing speech of the friendly blue - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Quiet street and the friendly door - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"
When friendly summer calls again - Thomas Hardy "Summer Schemes"
A friendly sunbeam's flutter - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "In Summer Twilight"
Daring and friendly souls - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
Love glorious in his friendly might - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"
Through the friendly silence of the moon - Keith Taylor "Through the Friendly Silence of the Moon"
Friendly thoughts were cliffs to me - Henry David Thoreau "The Departure"
Whispered friendly oracles - John Updike "Endpoint"
Soft friendships of pretty paint and kindnesses of mortar - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"
With steady eyes of awful friendship - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
Who friendship seal in wine - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
The friendship of the cherry trees - Toi Derricotte "Cherry blossoms"
Wines of mirth and friendship - F.W. Harvey "A Christmas Wish"
Poured out the cup of old friendship - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The friendship of a sea urchin - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
The friendship of an independent star - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
One endeared by Friendship's strongest ties - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
What friendship does to time - Edwin Torres "Territory"
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
As a beggar walks unfriended ways - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
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