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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BROTHERHOOD Matches Found: 180 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CITY OF MILLS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cross the bridge and take the road Last Line: Slay. Be brother to all in deed. Subject(s): Brotherhood A CONSECRATION FOR A NON-SECTARIAN CHURCH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Before this new-made altar, lord Last Line: And god himself shall be the light. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Churches; God; Religion - Reformers; Temples; Cathedrals; Mosques A CREED, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the truth in a little creed Last Line: In christ is all the god we know. Variant Title(s): Inbrothered Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology A HYMN OF BROTHERHOOD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People of peoples, from far o'er the ocean Last Line: Thou who art ransomed, be eager to save! Subject(s): Brotherhood A HYMN OF UNITY, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come, we come, we come Last Line: One hope, one lord. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity A LEAF FOR HAND IN HAND, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mississipi River A MAN, by MRS. VICTOR KIRK Poem Text First Line: If I could only be the man Last Line: Bring out my best, and then some more. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men A MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a pirate, greedy and bold Last Line: A pious example of christian peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; War; Peace Movements A MISSION, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each opportunity for good embrace Last Line: Fraternal love will dominate the land. Subject(s): Brotherhood A NAVVY'S PHILOSOPHY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across life's varied ways we drift Last Line: Beside the master of the hall. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brotherhood; Death; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Work; Workers A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 27, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets, every one, have sung of passion Last Line: For a friend's sake and your sworn brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood A PRAYER, by CLARENCE M. BURKHOLDER Poem Text First Line: Lord, let not my religion be Last Line: And neighbor unto every man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Good Samaritan; Prayer A SCHOOL COMPANIONSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven years, seven happy, careless years" Last Line: "within my heart, still shared with you" Subject(s): Brotherhood;classmates;schools;togetherness; Schoolmates;students A SONG FOR MY FELLOWS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My brothers, in this great world of ours Last Line: "or, failing, man-like will die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Brotherhood; Railroads; Railways; Trains A SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD; MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENTS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We in our wandering Last Line: "brother to brother pressed, / tara, tantara, teino!" Subject(s): Brotherhood;catholic Church - Clergy;religion; Catholic Priests;theology A TRUST OF BUYERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Robed with might on seas and lands Last Line: In the triumph of the just! Subject(s): Brotherhood ABOU BEN ADHEM, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abou ben adhem (may his tribe increase!) Last Line: And lo! Ben adhem's name led all the rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Abou Ben Adhem And The Angel Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Service; Theology AD ASTRA: 88, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Peace and goodwill toward men he came to teach Last Line: Be ruled in presence of the eternal light! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Brotherhood; God; Love AFTER LOOS; NOUEX LES MINES, MICHELMAS EVE, 1915, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it only yesterday Last Line: Was it only yesterday? Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Soldiers; Dead, The AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists ALHAMBRA SONGS: 6. THE CARAVAN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Dawn o'er the mountain is shaking Last Line: Where the desert tents unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Brotherhood; Granada, Spain ALL HAIL, THE PAGEANT OF THE YEARS, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion ALL OF US, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elevator was full of black women Last Line: A generation beforfe they finish Subject(s): Brotherhood AN EX-SERVICEMAN MAKES A VOW, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War is a way the statesmen play Last Line: Our world may have peace! Amen. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; God; Murder; Prayer; Social Protest; Soldiers; Veterans; War; Dead, The AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, come! / and let us go unto our god Last Line: And, brother, what shall you say? Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; God; Religion; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology ANNIVERSARY OF THE ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY, GLASGOW, 1866, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, brothers! True sons of the mother we love Last Line: The boast of the free, and the hope of the slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brotherhood; Patriotism; Scotland AS THYSELF', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Seest thou a fault in any other? Last Line: God's in that life; this is his duty Subject(s): Brotherhood;self BANTAM LEAGUE, by CALEB CORKERY Poem Source First Line: My brother's jacket reads: tim Last Line: Put one back, %practiced Subject(s): Brotherhood; Ice; Sports BARS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I love bars and taverns Last Line: Beside the sea Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Brotherhood; Drinks And Drinking; Friendship BEYOND THE BAR, by BEATRICE B. BEEBE Poem Text First Line: Send no one over by the way of war! Last Line: The unknown soldier. Subject(s): Brotherhood; War BOND, by MARIE M. MOTT Poem Text First Line: When fellow-creatures thoughtlessly inflame you Last Line: And know they like you just the way you are! Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell you though I were crucified Last Line: Aye, and when my need was, brother through the night! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Family Life; Love - Nature Of; Men; Relationships; Relatives BROTHERHOOD, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS Poem Source First Line: At length there dawns the glorious day Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROTHERHOOD, by AUGUST J. HANSEN Poem Text First Line: From the first all things were good Last Line: Usher in millenial morning. Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERHOOD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, brothers all! Last Line: That stumble down life's checkered street. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERHOOD, by MABEL BRACKETT LOVELL Poem Text First Line: Ah, pity the poor, good brother! Last Line: And love our neighbor perfectly. Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There shall rise from this noise of strife Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace BROTHERHOOD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you want to find your brothers Last Line: Shall dawn benign brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Self BROTHERHOOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight, a blossom grey in shadowy valleys Last Line: Where all the exiles of the heart return to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text 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 BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brother man! Fold to thy heart Last Line: And in its ashes plant the tree of peace Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROTHERHOOD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, what a world, if men in street and mart Last Line: Rise to the meaning of true brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): True Brotherhood Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology BROTHERHOOD (2), by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crest and crowning of all good Last Line: Make way for brotherhood—make way for man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology BROTHERS, by GEORGE E. DAY Poem Source First Line: I honor the land that gave me birth Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROTHERS, by NEIL HARRISON Poem Source First Line: We crossed the frozen channel in the dark Last Line: For one last shot before the light ran out Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERS, by HEINRICH LERSCH Poem Source First Line: Before our barbed and tangled wire, long time a dead man lay Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERS ALL (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the toiler's grimy shirt Last Line: Under the rough outside you view, %is a man who thinks and feels as you Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Brotherhood BROTHERS ALL (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're brothers all, whate'er the place Last Line: By common grief at the silent bier, %and the grave that awaits, we are brothers here Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Brotherhood BUT WHEN YE PRAY, by FRANCES CROSBY HAMLET Poem Text First Line: But when ye pray, say our - not mine or thine Last Line: When all can pray, not mine, or thine, but our. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology CALL OF BROTHERHOOD, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard it, the dominant call Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion CELTS AND SAXONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We hate the saxon and the dane Last Line: We've hearts and nands for you. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Nationalism - Ireland CHILDREN OF TOMORROW, by ZONA GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, children of tomorrow, come! Last Line: Is calling us to humanhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Childhood CIVIL SERVICE, by CONSTANCE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: My dark sits facing yours across the floor Subject(s): Brotherhood CREED AND DEED, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What care I for caste or creed? Last Line: One god and one humanity. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Religion; Theology DAVID TODAY, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your blood runs muddled Subject(s): Brotherhood DEFINITION, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing this man, who calls himself comrade Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers DEFINITION, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing this man, who calls himself comrade Last Line: Talking behind back, betraying trustful friend, %is worth enough to soil this word or mar this world Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor And Laborers E.J.B., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Companions, all day long we've stood Last Line: To guard their cabin room Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): "companions, All Day Long We've Stood""; Subject(s): Sailors And Sailers; Storms; Brotherhood FOLK-HUNGER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce hunger has come upon me Last Line: And my lung-bellows roaring in the jolly brotherhood of the world. Subject(s): Brotherhood FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, for honest poverty Last Line: Shall brothers be for a' that! Variant Title(s): A Man's A Man For A' That;honest Poverty Subject(s): Brotherhood; Class Struggle; Equality; Freedom; Mankind; Poverty; Liberty; Human Race FOR ELI JACOBSON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are few of us now, soon Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men FOR ELI JACOBSON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are few of us now, soon Last Line: Happiest men alive in our day Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men FROM ALTRURIA, by FRANCES M. MILNE Poem Text First Line: A little glimpse of heaven upon our wearied earth Last Line: The law of life eternal — the law of brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Weariness; Fatigue FUTURITY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And, o beloved voices, upon which Last Line: New memnons singing in the great god-light. Subject(s): Brotherhood; God GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!" Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War GOD'S CHRISTMAS TREE, by EVELYN C. REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: We are all a part of the selfsame tree Last Line: All men are a branch of the mother tree, %who loves and nurtures humanity Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christmas HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Carve the name of the year you live in on your heart Last Line: Alas! Alas! No brotherhood was there. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Holidays; New Year HAUTE POLITIQUE, by GRANVILLE TRACE Poem Text First Line: Driven to achievement by youth and love Last Line: Two bodies drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Chen Wei Lu Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HUG THE BEAR!, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So 'twas for this that with consuming rage Last Line: And down each cesspool stuff a tricolor! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Flags; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Slavery; Serfs HUMAN FAMILY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I note the obvious differences Last Line: Than we are unalike Subject(s): Brotherhood HUMAN FAMILY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I note the obvious differences Last Line: We are more alike, my friends, %than we are unalike Subject(s): Brotherhood HUMAN WOLVES, by RAFAEL AREVALO MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: At first I called them 'brothers,' with hands outstretched Last Line: And I drew near to look at them, and all were men once more! Subject(s): Brotherhood HUNTING ARROWHEADS, by JAROLD RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: Under the throbbing power lines, whose steel towers Last Line: Under a web of power lines, searching for arrowheads in the gravel Subject(s): Arrowheads; Brotherhood I KNEW A MAN BY SIGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stranger and foe, one day each other know Subject(s): Relationships; Neighbors; Brotherhood I MUST TO PRAYER, by FRANK BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: The street below if dull and cold Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion IMPERIALISM, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: If you see an island shore which has not been grabb'd before Last Line: Crime is christian when it's clearly understood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Crime & Criminals; Imperialism; Nations; Property; Possessions IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give Last Line: And I want to go back to that place! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War IN THE BUSY STREETS, DOMAINS OF TRADE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than brotherhood by law Subject(s): Brotherhood IN THE CITY, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sudden amid the slush and rain Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion IN THE ORTHOPAEDIC WARD, by BAHADUR TEJANI Poem Source First Line: There in the corner he sits Last Line: Gleams in his eye Subject(s): Brotherhood INEVITABLY (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inevitably we must share our bread Last Line: Or be forever undone. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Brotherhood INTERRACIAL, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's build bridges here and there Last Line: And span the gulf of challenge there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Brotherhood IS IT A DREAM?, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a dream, and nothing more - this faith Last Line: In open comradeship to all the world? Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology JESSE SELIGMAN, by NOAH DAVIS Poem Text First Line: His was another race than mine Last Line: That israel's god is thine and mine. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Jews; Judaism KINSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In summer time, with high imaginings Last Line: Oh would we not have paradise to-day? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The LIBERTY FOR ALL, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, liberty! That in thy name Last Line: And, by a mighty hand, the oppressed he yet shall save! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Fourth Of July; Slavery; Social Protest; Independence Day; Serfs LINK YOUR ARM IN MINE, MY LAD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And he's an earl for us, lad! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brotherhood LOVE SOLE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the shibboleth that slips Last Line: And blossoms unto brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Love - Nature Of LYING IN THE GRASS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between two russet [or, golden] tufts of summer grass Last Line: The mowers are all gone, and I go too. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mowing & Mowers; Youth; Lawn Mowers MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): Brotherhood; Courage; Hearts; Soldiers; War MATES, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It boots not to retrace the path Last Line: It is not, but it ought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom MATEY (CAMBRIN, MAY 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not comin' back tonight, matey Last Line: But gawd! It went through me 'eart. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MIRAGE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a will o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking Last Line: O lord, how long -- how long . . . . . . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mirages; Peace MY HELPER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood, my soul and I Last Line: But to the angels nearest love's white throne! Subject(s): Brotherhood MY NEIGHBOR'S ROSES, by ABRAHAM GRUBER Poem Text First Line: The roses red upon my neighbor's vine Last Line: Is grown for you, upon your neighbor's vine? Subject(s): Brotherhood; Selflessness NEW PATRIOTISM, by CHAUNCEY ROSCOE PIETY Poem Source First Line: We need a new patriotism Subject(s): Brotherhood NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER, SELS., by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sprawling city! Worlds in a world! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion NIHIL HUMANI ALIENUM, by TITUS MUNSON COAN Poem Text First Line: In the loud waking world I come and go Last Line: From nothing human let me hold apart! Subject(s): Brotherhood O HEART, by MAURICE ROWNTREE Poem Text First Line: O heart, that beats with every human heart Last Line: And thus, through thee, unite with all mankind. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Justice OF ONE FLESH, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man he was who loved the good Last Line: He was thy brother, and was mine! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Conduct Of Life; Forgiveness ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, SELS., by NORMAN CORWIN Poem Source First Line: Lord god of trajectory and blast Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion ON THE AVERAGE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My plenty means another's grievous need Last Line: And all are blest in brotherly degrees Subject(s): Brotherhood ONE BROTHERHOOD, by LEIGH VANTESS Poem Text First Line: These silent ones that we call 'dumb' and say Last Line: And we all travelers in one caravan. Subject(s): Brotherhood ONE FLESH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If marriage is to be one flesh, this twain made one Last Line: I am only loving myself. Subject(s): Brotherhood OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER, by W. H. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: The patient world through all its cycled years Last Line: Shall head the vanguard of the hosts of peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace; War OUR GANG, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've got a gang, and I belong Last Line: Or all the rest, or me! Subject(s): Boys; Brotherhood; Children; Friendship; Play; Childhood OURS IS A FAITH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "taught by no priest, but by our beating hearts" Last Line: That makes the many one Variant Title(s): Faith To Each Other Subject(s): Brotherhood;religion; Theology POEM FOR BROTHER FRANKLIN ON HIS 44TH BIRTHDAY, by ANN HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: May sister grain be with you always Last Line: And water, in springtime, your first green shoots of corn Subject(s): Birthdays; Brotherhood; Poetry And Poets POST-PRANDIAL VERSES; RECITED AT FESTIVAL OF ... FRATERNITY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brothers, who sit at this bountiful board Last Line: May your last, fondest sigh, be psi upsilon! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Universities & Colleges PRAYER FOR BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN S. HOYLAND Poem Source Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion PROLOGUE FOR MR. WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When by a generous public's kind acclaim Last Line: Till fate the curtain drop on worlds to be no more. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Equality; Patriotism PRONOUNS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lord said, %'say we' Last Line: We, %lord Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Brotherhood PROPHECY, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON Poem Text First Line: There is coming, my friend, as surely as water drops Last Line: So will they change the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewson, F. A. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Change; Future; God; Love; Peace; War REFUGEE IN AMERICA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are words like freedom Last Line: That almost make me cry. %if you had known what I knew %you would know why Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Words Like Freedo Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Brotherhood; Freedom RESURRECTION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain Last Line: Wondering what god would look like when he came. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Rebirth; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: FOREWORD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes Last Line: So take or leave them as you will. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War ROSES, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a rose called guy de maupassant, Subject(s): Roses; Brotherhood SIDE BY SIDE, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Jew and christian, side by side Last Line: Though a sadness thrills in the springtide air. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Brotherhood; Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism SONG, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked out one evening Last Line: The clocks had ceased their chiming %and the deep river ran on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Time; Transience; War SONNET OF SEAMEN'S UNION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time the sea was fraught with fear Last Line: And the weak learn that union is their strength. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor Unions; Sea Pilots; Strength SONS OF PROMISE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: In every meanest face I see Last Line: But has for him some treasure chaste. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brotherhood is not by the blood certainly Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Brotherhood SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brotherhood is not by the blood certainly Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Brotherhood SUCCESS, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink the foaming chalice Last Line: Who lived and died for men. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Memory; Nations; Success SUCCESS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If he succeeds whose coffers, heaped with gold Last Line: This is success, and this my prayer shall be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Success SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I that in seruice yet haue never knowne Last Line: To be your faithfull brother Subject(s): Brotherhood; Fights; Soldiers TEAR DOWN THE WALLS, by EDGAR COOPER MASON Poem Text First Line: Tear down the walls! God made of one Last Line: Are brothers in one human state. Subject(s): Brotherhood THE 'OTHER MAN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If every man would do the things the 'other man' should do Last Line: "if every man would think himself to be the ""other man." Subject(s): Brotherhood; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BEST MAN SHOULD NEVER PASS BY, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Brotherhood THE BLAME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Men couple her name with sin and with shame Last Line: We're to blame, brother mine, we're to blame! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men; Women THE DAY IS COMING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither lads and hearken Last Line: And forth the banners go. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Great Britain - History; Peace; English History THE DOLLAR SPEAKS TO THE YOUNG NEGRO (TO EDITOR I. WILLIS COLE), by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Sable brother, are you clinging Last Line: Wedding may-time to the years. Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; Negroes; American Blacks THE FAREWELL. TO THE BRETHREN OF ST. JAMES'S LODGE, TARBOLTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! A heart-warm fond adieu Last Line: To him, the bard that's far awa. Subject(s): Farewell; Brotherhood; Friendship; Parting THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FATHERLAND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the true man's fatherland? Last Line: His is a world-wide fatherland! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Patriotism THE FELLOWSHIP, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When brambles vex me sore and anguish me Last Line: Bitter and black, I crave the human taste. Subject(s): Brotherhood THE HEART - THE HEART, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart - the heart! Oh! Let it be Last Line: That beats for self alone. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Hearts THE INTERNATIONALIST, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Though rains of jeering pelt with hissing sneers Last Line: The rising temple in the heart of man! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Cooperation; Government; Nations THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lyart leaves bestrow the yird Last Line: One and all cry out, amen! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poverty; Brotherhood; Seduction; Wit & Humor; Labor & Laborers THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE LOOM, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother, the god, and I grow sick Last Line: I see and believe. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Weaving & Weavers THE NEW MARS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: I war against the folly that is war Last Line: For peace on earth,—a lasting peace, and just! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace; Social Protest; War THE PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans THE PICK, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the pluvial season it gallantly stayed Last Line: To the pick that was ever trusted, tried on the dead-line and true. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Missions & Missionaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE PRESENT AGE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not the age is hard and cold Last Line: The commonwealth of god. Subject(s): Brotherhood THE PROOF, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We came from irish lakes, from scottish towns Last Line: The human race can live and work together! Subject(s): Brotherhood THE RESTAURANT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restaurant I walk into expects me to have the cash or credit Last Line: Excitement, combat, power and domination? Subject(s): Restaurants; Brotherhood; Disappointment THE SEEKERS, by LUCIA TREVITT AURYANSEN Poem Text First Line: Where men have held the vision clear Last Line: Shall shine the guiding star. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Truth THE SILKEN SASHES, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The turks were many -- the greeks were few Last Line: With crimson sashes together bound. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SORTIE; TO H.B.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the bridge that spans the encircling fosse Last Line: Victor or vanquished, you were in the van. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Friendship THE SWEEPERS, by ADA GIDDINGS Poem Text First Line: The jaquaranda blued the walk and lawn Last Line: Before you blame another, try his yoke! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor & Laborers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers THE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the skyline I' the dark Last Line: Republic of the world! Variant Title(s): Republic Of The World Subject(s): Brotherhood; Patriotism THE WAY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By wisdom that cometh at night and by stealth Last Line: To live in the unconfined. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Greed; Liberty; Avarice; Cupidity THY BROTHER, by THEODORE CHICKERING WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: When thy heart, with overflowing Last Line: When thy heart enfolds a brother, %god is there Subject(s): Brotherhood; God; Religion TO A LOST COMRADE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We found the spring at eager noon Last Line: "cry ""hollo!"" I will come." Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Brotherhood TO MALCOLM X, by JULIUS E. THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: He knew someone Last Line: That all men %are really brothers Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) TO MY BROTHERS EVERYWHERE, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Test me not for shibboleth Subject(s): Brotherhood TO ONE WHO DENIES THE POSSIBILITY OF A PERMANENT PEACE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I greet you! You are still the same Last Line: Grey shadows overhead; still you are late. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology TOMORROW, by REGINO PEDROSO Poem Source First Line: As we hammer out iron we shall hammer out Last Line: We shall occupy the earth life a marching army, %hailing life with our unanimous song Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ELDER SOLDIER IN BROTHERHOOD TO THE YOUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear comrade, at whose feet thus now I kneel Last Line: All that I have said I confirm. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Heroism; Love; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DEAD COMRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There among the woods, after the battle returning Last Line: And faint in death the lips I love so well. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement TREES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I love it when trees lean forward or sideways Last Line: I pray for my brother's peace Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Trees UNDER ONE SKY, by KATHARINE MURDOCH DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Brown man, black man, yellow man and I Last Line: Brown man, black man, yellow man and I. Subject(s): Brotherhood VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War VISION OF PIERS PLOWMAN, SELS., by WILLIAM LANGLAND Poet Analysis Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Social Protest WAR AND HELL, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: The old, old dream of empire - the dream of alexander and caesar ... Last Line: Away with your brutal disorder, and clear the field for the tournament of man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Hell; Nations; Peace; War WE ARE BRETHREN A', by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A happy bit hame this auld world would Last Line: Come, gi'e me your hand, -- we are brethren a'. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Friendship WE LAUNCHED A SHIP, by RUBY BERKLEY GOODWIN Poem Source First Line: On one never-to-be-forgotten day, we launched a ship Subject(s): Brotherhood WEATHER, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: When I used to stay at my brother's Last Line: My brother or my blood or my teaching Subject(s): Brotherhood; Home WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Source Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion WHEN BRYAN SPEAKS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When bryan speaks, the town's a hive Last Line: Who make world-brotherhood their choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Brotherhood; Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) WHICH, by ALICE D. LIPPMANN Poem Text First Line: Brown man, brown man, brown man, brother Last Line: Flower the fields where daylight grows? Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; Negroes; American Blacks WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wreaths of roses and branches of palm Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Past; Brotherhood WHO IS SO LOW, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion WHO IS THY NEIGHBOR?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou Last Line: Go share they lot with him Subject(s): Brotherhood WORLD OF TOMORROW, by ELEANOR HUGHES Poem Text First Line: In days to come, men will arise with power Last Line: Fulfillment finds in peaceful brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood WORLD-BROTHERHOOD, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: My country is the world; I count Last Line: Shall yield to worldwide love of man. Variant Title(s): My Country Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology YEARS ARE COMING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "years are coming, years are going, creeds may change and pass away" Last Line: "songs of joy proclaim the story of a fair, transfigured earth" Subject(s): Brotherhood;religion; Theology YOUR MESSAGE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, priest and teacher Last Line: That's what people are. Subject(s): Brotherhood |
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