A Short Friendship Poem

Faithful Friend 

I want a warm and faithful friend, 

To cheer the adverse hour;

Who ne'er to flatter will descend, 

Nor bend the knee to power, - 

A friend to chide me when I'm wrong

My inmost soul to see;

And that my friendship prove as strong

For him as his for me. 

Poet - John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams, once wrote, "Could I have chosen my own genius and condition, I would have made myself a great poet."

 Although literary fame would escape the sixth president of the United States, throughout his life he was a serious reader and writer of poetry.