Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: Knew not the sun, sweet violet Last Line: We each and all thine image keep? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Brotherhood | ||||||||
KNEW not the Sun, sweet Violet, The while he gleaned the snow, That thou in darkness sepulchred, Wast slumbering below? Or spun a splendor of surprise Around him to behold thee rise? Saw not the Star, sweet Violet, What time a drop of dew Let fall his image from the sky Into thy deeper blue? Nor waxed he tremulous and dim When rival Dawn supplanted him? And dreamest thou, sweet Violet, That I, the vanished Star, The Dewdrop, and the morning Sun, Thy closest kinsmen are -- So near that, waking or asleep, We each and all thine image keep? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RESTAURANT by DAVID IGNATOW BROTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INTERRACIAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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