Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Friendship | | Young Friends | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | From “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act III. Sc. 2. |
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O, IS all forgot? | |
| All school-days’ friendship, childhood innocence? | |
| We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, | |
| Have with our needles created both one flower, | |
| Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, | 5 |
| Both warbling of one song, both in one key, | |
| As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, | |
| Had been incorporate. So we grew together, | |
| Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, | |
| But yet an union in partition, | 10 |
| Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; | |
| So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; | |
| Two of the first, like coats in heraldry | |
| Due but to one and crownèd with one crest. | |
| And will you rent our ancient love asunder, | 15 |
| To join with men in scorning your poor friend? | |
| It is not friendly, ’t is not maidenly. | | | |
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