Lyric Poem · Friendship
To Friends At Home
TO friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost
The gracious old, the lovely young, to May
The fair, December the beloved,
These from my blue horizon and green isles,
These from this pinnacle of distances I,
The unforgetful, dedicate.
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“To Friends At Home” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/to-friends-at-home
Quick facts
- Poem
- To Friends At Home
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 6 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Friendship, Winter, Love, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 6 lines · one 6-line stanza
- Line length
- Lines run 8-11 syllables (median 11). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo Friends At Home by robert-louis-stevenson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 d0b2515c0f04e61a…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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