Living
Friendship
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
There is a flame that flickers over us,
Paler, yet not unlike the flame of love:
It never burns the hand: below the urn
That holds it, Friendship is the word I read.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Friendship.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/835/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Friendship.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/835/.
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