Heartfelt Words for a Friend, 1678

Philips, Katherine
Katherine Philips by Faithorne. Frontispiece from Poems by Mrs Katherine Philips, The matchless Orinda (1667), British Library 83.l.3.
Katherine Philips by Faithorne. Frontispiece from Poems by Mrs Katherine Philips, The matchless Orinda (1667), British Library 83.l.3.

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"[...]Such is the sacred Name of Friend."

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Friendship
Women

Thy leiger soul in me shall lie,

And all thy thoughts reveal ;

Then back again with mine shall fly,

And thence to me shall steal.

Thus still to one another tend ;

Such is the sacred Name of Friend. 

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Philips, Katherine. Poems, “To Mrs. M.A. at a Parting” (1678), in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, George Saintsbury, ed.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. 550-.