MOM POEMS, LOVE POEMS and WAR POEMS

When Friendship or Love
Our sympathies move;
When Truth, in a glance, should appear,
The lips may beguile,
With a dimple or smile,
But the test of affection’s a Tear:
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Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree –
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most contantly?
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And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”

Your friend is your needs answered.

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

And he is your board and your fireside.

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Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It’s treasured more each year…
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Among life’s precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare.

When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
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You remind me of a flower,
Pretty, inside and outside.
A reason why people smile everyday,
A gift to all.
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If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you,
And share with you its beauty
On the days you’re feeling blue
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There’s nothing as nice as someone who shares,
your laughter, your secrets, your wishes and cares,
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I’d like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I’d like to be the help that
you’ve been always glad to be;
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