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Around the Corner by Charles Hanson Towne is meaningful and inspiring poem about the value of friendship for advanced ESL students with a video or podcast.
Around the Corner
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friend’s face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
“Tomorrow” I say! “I will call on Jim
Just to show that I’m thinking of him”,
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
“Here’s a telegram sir,” “Jim died today.”
And that’s what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
— By Charles Hanson Towne
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About Charles Hanson Towne
Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949), was an author, poet, editor, and popular New York celebrity. He moved from Kentucky to New York City with his family at the age of three. Towne began his literary career quite early as the eleven year old “publisher” of the Unique Monthly, a children’s magazine written by and for Towne and his friends. After a year at City College, Towne got his first break as an editorial assistant at Cosmopolitan magazine. In 1901 he moved to the Smart Set, a new magazine for a sophisticated urban clientele, where he held numerous positions before becoming an editor in 1904.
Source of biography: All Poetry
This poem was amazing and it was kinda easier than the other ones and it was really great that I could give it 7 out of 10. And I should say this pepole like Charles Hanson Towne we’re been talented in righting poem at first.
I could feel what he said. I myself sometimes want to massage a friend to know how is she doing but months pass and I don’t actually do it.
I didn’t expect the end, it was sad. I thought they will eventually talk to each other. By the way, It was simple and beautiful.A nice piece of poem simply uttering the reality. How we human beings little by little sink in the oacean of endless desires ond chores that become totally unawar of losing great precious things. As it mentioned we want to make a name but ended in missing those invaluable things that cannot possible to get again . How sad the reality and life sometimes are.
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