This elegantly designed keepsake is a collection of several dozen poems by the world's greatest poets on friendship, companionship, camaraderie, and intimacy. All aspects of friendship are covered: best friends, dear friends, romantic friends, even fair-weather friends. The poets include Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, William Shakespeare, and Rudyard Kipling.