“Little Life Experiences” by Evan Stephens in “Children’s Friend”, June 1920
was said by D. Michael Quinn to be a poem about Queer love
We have lived and loved together
Slept together, dined, and supped,
Felt the pain of little quarrels,
Then the joy of waking up;
Held each other’s hands in sorrows
Shook them hearty in delight,
Held sweet converse through the day time,
Kept it up through half the night,
O we’ve borne the sweetest title,
Ever given by man to man
That of Friend, one to the other,
Faithful, loyal through life’s span.
Drawn together by a magnet
Kept together by its pow’rs,
Love of friendship – human blessing.
Lighting life’s dark lonely hours.