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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUR NEIGHBOR, by H. HOWARD BIGGAR First Line: Do you know the neighbor who lives in your block Last Line: If you'll stop with this neighbor and visit awhile. | |||
Do you know the neighbor who lives in your block; Do you ever take time for a bit of a talk? Do you know his troubles, his heartaches, his cares, The battles he's fighting, the burdens he bears? Do you greet him with joy or pass him right by With a questioning look and a quizzical eye? Do you bid him "Good morning" and "How do you do," Or shrug up as if he was nothing to you? He may be a chap with a mighty big heart, And a welcome that grips, if you just do your part. And I know you'll coax out his sunniest smile, If you'll stop with this neighbor and visit awhile. We rush on so fast in these strenuous days, We're apt to find fault when it's better to praise. We judge a man's worth by the make of his car; We're anxious to find what his politics are. But somehow it seldom gets under the hide, The fact that the fellow we're living beside Is a fellow like us, with a hankering, too, For a grip of the hand and a "How do you do!" With a heart that responds in a welcome sincere If you'll just stop to fling him a message of cheer, And I know you'll coax out his sunniest smile, If you'll stop with this neighbor and visit awhile. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAMENT by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY BOTHWELL: PART 2 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE PILGRIM by JOSEPH BEAUMONT IDYLL 7. OF HYACINTHUS by BION THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A CURSE FOR A NATION: THE CURSE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING VERSES: THE MASTER'S SPEECH by JOHN BYROM OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 5. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FIRST EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION |
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