Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson, through his poem 'Friendship', tells about all the happiness that he has revived from his friend. He says that his best friend has encouraged him to get out of his despair and that the latter's support has been unchanging, delighted him with its warmth. He feels that it is because of his friend that he sees roses as red and sky as arched. The poem is a beautiful blend of imagination and worldly relation between two friends.
Friendship 

A ruddy drop of manly blood

The surging sea outweighs;

The world uncertain comes and goes,

The lover rooted stays.

I fancied he was fled,

And, after many a year,

Glowed unexhausted kindliness

Like daily sunrise there.

My careful heart was free again-

O friend, my bosom said,

Through thee alone the sky is arched,

Through thee the rose is red,

All things through thee take nobler form

And look beyond the earth,

The mill-round of our fate appears

A sun-path in thy worth

Me too thy nobleness has taught

To master my despair;

The fountains of my hidden life

Are through thy friendship fair.