On Imagining A Friend Had Treated The Author With Indifference. Poem by Mary Barber

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On Imagining A Friend Had Treated The Author With Indifference.

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Go, Jealousy, Tormentress dire;
On Lovers only seize:
In Love, like Winds, you fan the Fire,
And make it higher blaze.

But Friendship's calmer, purer Joy
Thou dost not heighten, but destroy.

Mary Barber

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Topic(s) of this poem: fire,friendship,jealousy,joy

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