A collection of ninety poems about friendship by both contemporary and traditional poets, divided into nine sections reflecting the diversity of feelings and thoughts on the subject.
What is the oppposite of two?/ Richard Wilbur Hope / Langston Hughes Pete at the zoo / Gwendolyn Brooks Undefeated ? Robert Froman Lonely Monday / J. Patrick Lewis Lonesome / Myra Cohn Livingston Loneliness / Felice Holman They Ask: Is God, too, lonely / Carl Samburg The question / Dennis Lee If the ocean was milk The owl's bedtime story / Randall Jarrell Miss M.F.H.E.I.I. Jones / Karla Kuskin Door number four / Charlotte Pomerantz We could be friends / Myra Cohn Livingston Read up and down Everett Anderson's friend / Lucille Clifton Vern / Gwendolyn Brooks The two cats / Elizabeth Coatsworth Friend / Lilain Moore Coati-Mundi / William Jay Smith Buying a puppy / Leslie Norris The erie canal The friendly beasts Three / Elizabeth Coatsworth Of the islands, Puerto Rico What Johnny told me / John Ciardi Secret talk / Eve Merriam Two friends / Nikki Giovanni Betsy Jane's Sixth birthday / Alfred Noyes Puzzle / Arnold Spilka A boy's song / James Hogg Neighbors / mary Ann Hoberman With my foot in my mouth / Dennis Lee Well! Hello down there / Issa There are gold ships Henry and Marry / Robert Graves A secret place / Judith W. Steinbergh Friend / Felice Holman Agnes Snaggletooth / X.J. Kennedy The Merry Pieman's song / John Bennett The fresh air / Harold Monro A time to talk / Robert Frost Written at the Po-Shan Monastery / Hsin Ch'i-chi freindship /Aztec Millions of strawberries / Genevieve Taggard The friendly cinnamon bun / Russell Hoban Skully Oogan / Russell Hoban From I had a hippopotamus / Patric Barrington Giraffe / William Jay Smith From on a bicycle / Yevgeny Yevtushenko The duck and the kangaroo / Edward Lear Moon / Karla Kuskin In the fields of the spring From Aututm / Humbert Wolfe Celebration / Alonzo Lopez Conjugation / Patricia Hubbell The Quangle Wangles's hat / Edard Lear There was a light pig from montclair / Arnold Lobel At the garden gate / David McCord The rose on my cake / Karla Kuskin The marmalade man makes a dance to mend us / Nacy Willard The lands around my dwelling / Eskimo put the pine tree in its pot by the doorway / Natalia Belting Today is saturday / Zilpha Keatley Synder The song of a dream Sing hey! Sing hey! All on a christmas morning / Elizabeth Coatsworth Freindship is like China misery is when your / Langston Hughes As the sun came up,a ball of red Elizabeth Cried / Eleanor Farjeon There was a young lady of kent Friendship / Shel Silverstein Fifty-fifty / Carl Sanburg I have friends / Cheryl Thorton You smiled / Calvin O'John Sesitive Sydney / Wallace Irwin I cannot forget you / Makah Missing you / Charlotte Zolotow The tamarindo puppy / Charlotte Pomerantz Poem / Langston Hughes Thank you for your letter / Ch'ao Li-houa --Letter to a friend / Lilain Moore Letter froma Sicily / Emanuel di Pasquale Too slow / Lillian Morrison Little elegy / Elinor Wylie Seperation /W.S. Merwin Remembering the M A parting / Wang Wei