FRIENDS

Are friends delight or pain?
Could bounty but remain
Riches were good.
But if they only stay
Bolder to fly away,
Riches are sad.

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Jeffrey Harrison

"Mad—bad—and dangerous to know" bore George Gordon to the pageant …

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My brother still bites his nails to the quick, …

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Neil Weiss

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.