We Have Been Friends Together

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1808 (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan London) – 1877 (London)



WE have been friends together,  
 In sunshine and in shade;  
Since first beneath the chestnut-trees  
 In infancy we played.  
But coldness dwells within thy heart,
 A cloud is on thy brow;  
We have been friends together—  
 Shall a light word part us now?  
 
We have been gay together;  
 We have laugh’d at little jests;
For the fount of hope was gushing  
 Warm and joyous in our breasts.  
But laughter now hath fled thy lip,  
 And sullen glooms thy brow;  
We have been gay together—
 Shall a light word part us now?  
 
We have been sad together,  
 We have wept, with bitter tears,  
O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d  
 The hopes of early years.
The voices which are silent there  
 Would bid thee clear thy brow;  
We have been sad together—  
 Oh! what shall part us now?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AbxbxcAC AdxdxcAC AxbxxcAc
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 794
Words 138
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was an English feminist, social reformer, and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century. more…

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