summer friends

                 SUMMER FRIENDS 

                   MARY LAMB 

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUTS MARY LAMB :

 

    

Mary Ann Lamb was born on 3Rd 

December, 1764 in London, 

United Kingdom.She had a 

brother named Charles Lamb who 

was also a poet and was Mary's 

caretaker. She was a poetess and 

a English writer. She was died on 

20th May 1847.

NOTABLE WORKS OF MARY LAMB :

Mary Lamb is best known today for her collaboration 

with her brother Charles Lamb on the collection 

"Tales from Shakespeare ". Her other work "Mrs. 

Leicester's School Poems for Children "

SUMMER  FRIENDS 

"Summer Friends" by Mary Lamb is short sixteen 

line poem that is written with a simple ABABCDCD ...rhyme scheme. This "Sing - Song " like pattern 

forces the poem along at a quick pace while also 

imbuing it with an impression of positivity. The 

reader will most likely come to the conclusion that 

by the end of the poem, soon in the speaker's life, 

she will discover the relationship she searching for 

- one in which she is never abandoned to the 

"mischance" of being.

SUMMER FRIENDS 

MARY LAMB 

The swallow is a summer bird; 

He in our chimneys, when the weather 

Is fine and warm, may then be heard 

Chirping his notes for weeks together 

Come there but one cold wintry day, 

Away will fly our guest the swallow: 

And much like him we find the way 

Which many a gay young friend will follow

In dreary days of snow and frost 

Closer to Man will cling the Sparrow: 

Old friends, although in life we're crost, 

Their hearts to us will never narrow 

Give me the bird - give me the friend -

Will sing in frost - will love in sorrow -

Whate'er mischance to-day may send, 

Will greet me with his sight to-morrow.

"SUMMER FRIENDS " SUMMERY 

The poem begins with the introduction of a "Summer friend", a swallow, who comes to live in the speaker's chimney during the summer months. Only when it is 

warm does he nest here, and all throughout the warm months, his song can be heard throughout the home. 

He has become a part of the family, a friend whose presence is welcome and expected in these Summer months the sparrow does not allow anyone near him, 

he is less in need of companionship than he will be later when the days get cold.

he second eight lines of the poem, the speaker describes how when the winter months come the sparrow's need for "Man'" is greater. Although he and the speaker during, their summerseparation may have become "crost", a common , dialectic way of saying "crossed", nothing has hardened their hearts. 

They will never "narrow" against one another.

poem concludes with the narrator announcing all that ary Lamb wants. She desires a friend, the SparroW, someone who will sing with her "in frosting will love with her "in sorrow". She seeking and has 

perhaps found, a friend who will stay by her side no matter the "mischance", or difficulties, tomorrow bring. This friend will never abandon her and 

always "greet her with his sight".

         pictures of swallow bird