Poems

Chapter 80: THE NEW FRIEND

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About This Book

A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

THE NEW FRIEND

Friend—my restless spirit never knew

What good gifts the heavens kept late to send

Till the dear day dawned that brought me—you,

Friend!

Lacking love like this, too many wend

Graveward. Highest heaven holds few

Joys like this, with cruel pain to blend.

I who know not Peace may feel its dew;

I who have no prayers may kneel and bend

In this gentle presence;—dear and new

Friend!