Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth Against Lying by Isaac Watts Good-Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare Count That Day Lost by George Eliot Work Without Hope by Samuel Coleridge Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning I've a Pain in my Head by Jane Austen Jealousy by Rupert Brooke Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte



Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree --
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most contantly?
The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who wil call the wild-briar fair?
Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.