A branch with an icicle, against a twilight background and setting sun. Photo: By Iggii via Unsplash.

'Is Friends fled, or Love grown cold?'

Poem: An epistle

'Is Friends fled, or Love grown cold?'

by Mary Mollineux (1651–1696) 14th February 2025

Is Friends fled, or Love grown cold?

Do frozen Walls of Ice with-hold

Its Pearly Streams? O let the Sun,

That gave it being, shine upon

The brittle Fence! Or is some Skreen

Injuriously set up between