Death & Dying
Friends
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Death & Dying
The heaviest curse that can on mortal fall
Is " who has friends may he outlive them all !'
This malediction has awaited me
Who had so many... I could once count three.
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Friends.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/207/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Friends.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/207/.
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