Summary of the poem summer friends
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‘Summer Friends’ by Mary Lamb is a sixteen line poem that speaks to, what should be, the invulnerable relationship between friends in good times and bad.
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 who’s 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.
In the 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 summer seperation may have become “crost,” a common, dialectic way of saying “crossed,” nothing has hardened their hearts. They will never “narrow” against one another.
The poem concludes with the narrator announcing all that she wants. She desires a friend, the sparrow, someone who will sing with her “in frost” and will love with her “in sorrow.” She is seeking, and has perhaps found, a friend who will stay by her side no matter the “mischance,” or difficulties, tomorrow might bring. This friend will never abandon her and always “greet her with his sight.”
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