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First Line: There were twa brethren in the north
Last Line: And that will never be
Subject(s): Brothers;murder;villains In Literature; Half-brothers


A BOY GOES INTO THE WORLD, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother rode off on his bike
Last Line: I at last can claim them as my own
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives


A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come here, my little son, and see
Last Line: "I'd rather had er billy goat."
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters


A LIKENESS (PORTRAIT BUST OF AN UNKNOWN, CAPITOL, ROME), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In every line a supple beauty
Last Line: His sorrow in a marble face.
Subject(s): Brothers; Rome, Italy; Half-brothers


A LITANY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember him falling beside me
Last Line: Or lay in the shallow spoon.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The


A MOMENT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The field where my brother died
Last Line: The next you're alone in a field.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The


A SONNET SENT TO BLACKNESS TO MR. JOHN WELSCH, by ELIZABETH MELVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dear brother, wt courage bear the crosse
Last Line: When shew of c's love thy rich reward shall be:
Alternate Author Name(s): Colville, Elizabeth (melville); Colville Of Culros, Elizabeth (melville); Colross, Lady
Subject(s): Brothers; Hope; Half-brothers; Optimism


A TALE OF ELSINORE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease
Last Line: And from that day the house of cronberg was cursed no more.
Subject(s): Brothers; Children - Lost; Twins; Half-brothers


A TRADITION OF OKER HILL IN DARLEY DALE, DERBYSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hill
Last Line: That to itself takes all, eternity.
Subject(s): Trees; Absence; Brothers


A.M.D., by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks I see thee, lying straight and low
Last Line: Than when we lay together in one bed.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Bereavement


AD ASTRA: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We cannot live without our fellow-men
Last Line: As bone knits bone, brother uniteth brother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Brothers; Togetherness; Half-brothers


AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the front door close
Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement


AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The guest departs
Last Line: I pray we'll grow old.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Guests; Marriage; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ALL OF US BENEATH RED COWBOY HATS, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between his smaller brothers, he
Last Line: That child. I'm trying to forgive him
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Photography & Photographers


AN INSINCERE WISH ADDRESSED TO A BEGGAR, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are not near enough to love
Last Line: And truth reveal herself to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Brothers; Deception; Family Life; Wealth; Half-brothers; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes


ARABIAN NIGHTS: TUMADIR AL-KHANSA FOR HER BROTHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weep! Weep! Weep! / these tears are for my brother
Last Line: "while you have tears, o daughters of the solomides, / weep! Weep! Weep!"
Subject(s): "brothers;death;grief;legends, Arabic;" "half-brothers;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


ARS POETICA, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All poetry begins, from now on, with my brother's legs
Last Line: Remember: this is only the beginning
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


AT THIRTEEN, by CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother died just as I was touching
Last Line: I miss my brother. %I want him back
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Memory; Mourning


AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother
Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices.
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities


AUGUST THE 12TH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are two scars on a dead woman's belly
Last Line: Tell us where you are, %tell us why you are silent now
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers


AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: 1. JUSTICE, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Geryon learned about justice from his brother quite early
Last Line: All trace of the world
Subject(s): Schools; Brothers


BELIEF, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother said to call her if the h-bomb exploded
Subject(s): Brothers; Faith; Crime & Criminal; Mothers; Half-brothers; Belief; Creed


BIG SISTER AND BIG BROTHER, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ziza plays her guitar
Last Line: His running shoes
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


BILL'S LENGTH, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On to bill's length,' said my mate to me
Last Line: "we must signal to bill as we journey down."
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Accidents; Brothers; Death; Railroads; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Railways; Trains


BLOOD WORK, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jane noone, r. N., %velcroes the pressure tester [and pumps]
Last Line: And alcohol and cotton halt the drip
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


BLUEGILLS, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The end of the summer uncle puding died
Last Line: Looking as though the end was a surprise?
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


BLUES FOR JIMMY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If it were evening on a dead man's watch
Last Line: Locked on my wrist to remember us by
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Second World War


BODY OF MY BROTHER OSIRIS IS IN THE MUSTARD SEED, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seed from an early egyptian tomb
Last Line: He would lift his face
Subject(s): Brothers; Drowning; Swimming


BRIDGE, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The living
Last Line: And deal
Subject(s): Bridge (card Game); Brothers; Death; Marriage; Memory; Uncles


BROTHER, by MICHAEL DONAGHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dropping a canape in my beaujolais
Last Line: I must break bread with my own flesh and blood
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life


BROTHER, by DAVID MELTZER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother died there was no choice
Subject(s): Brothers


BROTHER, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First bike and doll
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


BROTHER AND SISTER, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot choose but think upon the time
Last Line: I would be born a little sister there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Variant Title(s): "i Cannot Choose But Think Upon The Time"";
Subject(s): Adolescence; Brothers & Sisters; Evans, Isaac; Family Life; Maturity; Memory; Teen Agers; Relatives


BROTHER AND SISTER, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shorn moon trembling indistinct on her path
Last Line: Let us rise and leave her now, she will never know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters


BROTHER GENE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: He differed from the others; they were kind
Last Line: And how we miss him since he went away.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Longing; Nostalgia; Half-brothers; Dead, The


BROTHER RUGINO, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: They loved him more to know that he was mad
Last Line: "till it is white"" -- and dipped the robe again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Brothers; Old Age; Half-brothers


BROTHER SOME LOVE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he had lived during
Last Line: He brother some love
Subject(s): Brothers; Love


BROTHER, I AM HERE, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coolness, like the evening tide
Last Line: Brother, I am here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Half-brothers


BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale
Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms.
Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives


BROTHERS, by NILS CLAUSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each summer when the others left for camp
Last Line: For the boyish dreamer to catch you
Subject(s): Brothers; Summer


BROTHERS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How lovely the elder brother's
Last Line: I'll cry thou canst be kind.
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


BROTHERS, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the livingroom window
Last Line: And abracadabra %disappeared
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Memory


BROTHERS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I watched my brothers play
Last Line: And in a vision I have seen %my brothers playing on the green
Subject(s): Brothers


BROTHERS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never fought %wars, though each
Last Line: He said, cut me
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Brothers; Fights; Flight; War; World War Ii


BROTHERS, AND A SERMON, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a village built in a green rent
Last Line: Might have been his.
Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ; Life; Quarrels; Sermons; Half-brothers; Arguments; Disagreements


BROTHERS: 1. INVITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come coil with me
Last Line: What it meant.
Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Half-brothers


BROTHERS: 2. HOW GREAT THOU ART, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, you are beyond
Last Line: Imperfection.
Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Desire; Self; Half-brothers


BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Less snake than angel
Last Line: And to be unafraid.
Subject(s): Angels; Brothers; Creation; Mankind; Half-brothers; Human Race


BROTHERS: 4. IN MY OWN DEFENSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What could I choose
Last Line: Could they have failed to hear.
Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Sin; Half-brothers


BROTHERS: 5. THE ROAD LED FROM DELIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into delight, into the sharp
Last Line: And so forth.
Subject(s): Brothers; Humanity; Meditation; Half-brothers


BROTHERS: 8. '............IS GOD.', by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So. / having no need to speak
Last Line: The rest is silence.
Subject(s): Brothers; God; Religious Education; Silence; Half-brothers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


BURIAL INSURANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It came each month from omaha
Last Line: Grandmomma took her picture off the wall
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Books & Reading; Dead, The


BUSCH AND TOMMY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little busch and tommy hays
Last Line: And your ministrations!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land of nod
Last Line: My brother %don't rise up
Subject(s): Brothers; Cain


CAIN, by VICTOR DOMINGO SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cain brandishes the blood-stained weapon still
Last Line: Union from death itself can pluck forth life!
Subject(s): Brothers; Cain; Crime And Criminals; Death; Murder


CARVER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sees the man %in the wood and
Last Line: The carver %brother
Subject(s): Brothers


CASUALTIES: 21. THE BEAST, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long pronounced in tumult underground
Last Line: For brother to hurl against brother
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Brothers; Dragons; Fights; Monsters


COCKS CROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cocks crow in the treetops
Last Line: A tree will offer itself for another, %but brother forgets brother
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Trees


COMB, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know, the rooster tosses back
Last Line: And when we part, we part
Subject(s): Brothers; Farewell


COME BACK, JACK!, by CATHERINE ANHOLT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There once was a little girl who didn't like
Last Line: They laughed and laughed and laughed
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Names


CONCEIT, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother's afraid to get angry
Subject(s): Brothers; Anger; Letters; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives


COUPE DE VILLE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You shut the trunk
Last Line: My wish to be far, %or to be close the way we never were. %the way we never will be
Subject(s): Brothers; Travel


COWARD, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a coward in every eavesdropper. I never realized that
Last Line: Making sure the driver took the corner wide enough, %missed the curb
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


CRUISER, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We would quicken in the vinyl
Last Line: In, & our last for, many, many years
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


DEDICATION TO ETHIOPE LAYS, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To him whose childish hands did smooth
Last Line: This firstling is inscribed.
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters


DELROY AND FRIEND, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We laugh strongest because we laugh
Last Line: And winner ate dug-up dirt
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DELROY THE DANCER-EXPLORER, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dance myself all clear
Last Line: A dancer-boy explorer
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DELROY THE SKATEBOARD ROLLER, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sittn down is all immobility
Last Line: To roll with, calm calm, without end
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DIRGE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I reached the middle of the mount
Last Line: The silent organ loudest chants %the master's requiem'
Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Loss Of


DOESN'T A DIFFERENCE MAKE FRIENDS TALK?, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dad watches a ball game
Last Line: But isn't she messy?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father's, mother's, brother's deaths I pardon
Last Line: And beg of heaven to charge the bill on me.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Forgiveness; Murder; Parents; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Clemency; Parenthood


DOWN TIME, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over sunday supper, lasagna and garlic bread, my brother tells us
Last Line: A productive week, full of pleasurable occupations
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


DREENA'S NOTEBOOK THAT MAKES PEOPLE LAUGH, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My drawings come bright
Last Line: He'd been really nasty to me
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


EFFIE'S REASONS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, effie, while you are sitting
Last Line: "just because I love him so!"
Subject(s): Brothers; Likes & Dislikes; Family Life


ELEGIAC STANZAS, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY JULIA, ON DEATH OF BROTHER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though sorrow long has worn my heart
Last Line: The heart is almost broken too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The


ELEGY FOR HER BROTHER SAKHR, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cry out for sakhr when a dove with necklaces
Last Line: When the wind howled his people were happy %as a wind of dust blew under a freezing cloud
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


ELEGY FOR MY BROTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll walk awhile, maybe as high as the tree line
Last Line: And watch the door now being closed behind you...
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Half-brothers; Dead, The; Parting


ELEGY FOR MY SISTER, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was born sarah gossett ballenger
Subject(s): Death; Brothers & Sisters


ELEGY: KAWAMURA YOICHI (1932-1995), by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were utterly %beautiful, those ancient songs
Last Line: Yoichi was such a joy
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Sympathy


ELEVENTH BROTHER, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One arm still a swan's wing
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


END OF DAYS, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are those who swear it will start with the sun
Last Line: Themselves toward heaven like flares
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


EPITAPH OVER THE GRAVE OF TWO BROTHERS, A CHILD AND A YOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, that canst gaze upon thine own fair boy
Last Line: Where god hath sealed the fount of hope he gave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Graves; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones


EXEGESIS, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born on a day / that god was sick
Last Line: That I masticate... Yet they don't know
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Illness


EXEGESIS, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born on a day %that god was sick
Last Line: That god was sick, %gravely
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness


FAMILY, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charter's father invites family to lunch when he has something
Last Line: Visit by visit, jose widens his world to include these woods, these people, our lives
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Grandchildren


FAMILY GROUP, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Brothers; World War Ii; Family Life; Half-brothers; Second World War; Relatives


FOR BILL VITT, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, I rest on your arm
Last Line: & I need no dream
Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Togetherness; Half-brothers


FOR BILL VITT, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, I rest on your arm
Last Line: & I need no dream
Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Togetherness


FOR MY BROTHER: 'OTHER SYSTEMS MUST EXIST', by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Worlds away what other praise
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row
Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


FRIEND'S DIVORCE, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was good manners, I suppose, that made him wait
Last Line: Each too proud to make the first move to leave
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When all the rooms of the house
Last Line: That arches toward the other shore.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters


GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BROTHER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In so many ways %he saved time
Subject(s): Brothers; Friendship; Homosexuality; Relationships


GLASS, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The summer we first drank the clear blood
Last Line: We were still unbroken, smooth as glass
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


HAIKU, by NICK VIRGILIO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dead brother
Last Line: In my laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgilio, Nicholas
Subject(s): Brothers


HAIKU, by NICK VIRGILIO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dead brother
Last Line: I step into deep snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgilio, Nicholas
Subject(s): Brothers


HEART OF BAMBOO: TWO LETTERS TO CHRISTOPHER YOHMEI BLASDEL, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Play sanya for me
Last Line: But the song is all our own
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Love; Memory


HEAVEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother is crouched at the edge
Last Line: Even when she was right, she was wrong
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


HEAVEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother is crouched at the edge
Last Line: Even when she was right, she was wrong.'
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Death; Heaven


HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 12, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise up, brother, be born with me
Last Line: Speak through my words and my blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Death; Grief


HOLIDAY HOURS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear boy, let us think of the pleasures
Last Line: The sportive delights of the holiday hours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Holidays


HOW IT HAPPENED, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We watched the metal fire spread
Last Line: Paths out of ourselves for the taking
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


HOW SHE BOWED TO HER BROTHER, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The story of how she bowed to her brother.
Subject(s): Brothers; Homage & Respect; Half-brothers


HOW TO BEGIN A POETRY READING, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Begin with a poem by a friend of yours, one
Last Line: I've longed (for too long now)to possess, be
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


HOW TO WATCH YOUR BROTHER DIE, by MICHAEL LASSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the call comes, be calm
Last Line: Warm and friendly and without challenge
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Brothers; Homosexuality; Sickness


I WAS SLEEPLESS, AND I PASSED THE NIGHT KEEPING VIGIL, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


I'LL STRETCH IT A LITTLE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry blast was fierce and cold
Last Line: Will find them amply wide for two
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Kindness


IGNIS FATUUS, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In august swelter, fourth-month scorch
Last Line: Teach us to breathe
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


IN DEATH'S FIELD, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In death's field, in morning distress
Last Line: And every trive is a journey to ruin %and every treaty is erased by time
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


IN MEMORIAM (DAVID J. RYAN, C. S. A.), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping
Last Line: Flashed above my brother's tomb.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; Death; U.s. - History; Half-brothers; Dead, The


IN MEMORY OF MY BROTHER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young as the youngest who donned the gray
Last Line: But -- his memory lives in the other.
Variant Title(s): The Southern Soldier Boy
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; U.s. - History; Half-brothers


ISN'T MY NAME MAGICAL?, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody can see my name on me
Last Line: Isn't your name and my name magic?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


IT WAS A BRIGHT AFTERNOON, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Struck the silence of the late dying day'
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Poetry And Poets


JAKE, by EMILY CARMICHAEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can't leave for school without me when it's colder
Last Line: I say to him you watch it he's my brother
Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Family Life; High School Students; Teenagers


JOHNNY-BOY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ive sixteen sisters more or less
Last Line: "but a ""johnny-boy""—he counts a heap."
Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Family Life; Youth; Half-brothers; Relatives


JONQUILS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I look at you, beautiful jonquils
Last Line: And my brother now 'biding there.
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Homecoming; Jonquils; Spanish-american War (1898)


JOSEPH, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph saw no trouble ahead
Last Line: "he made his brothers tremble
Subject(s): Manipulation; Courts & Courtiers; Brothers


JOSEPH A. HOWELLS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stone, upon which with hands of boy and man
Last Line: There needs no room for blame: blame there was none.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Brothers; Praise; Half-brothers


JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He, who was once my brother, is dead by his own hand
Last Line: Reason enough for anything ugly. It balances the beauty in the air
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Suicide; Incest


LA PAMPA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead truck sits in the shimmering wheat
Last Line: In white pajamas and turquoise slippers.
Subject(s): Brothers; Fathers; Graves; Librarians & Libraries; Half-brothers; Tombs; Tombstones; Library; Librarians


LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: PUNISHMENT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Although greed has ready
Last Line: Let's forget the old man!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Brothers; Pain; Punishment


LEMON, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For months without crying out I'd been crying out, like a disconnected
Last Line: Then my mouth exploded with lemon, lemon
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


LIGHT HEARTED AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches are mad with green points
Subject(s): Brothers; Conduct Of Life; Relationships; Birch Trees; Half-brothers


LINES WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER, by JAMES HENRY POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: How oft alas my brother have I warned thee to beware
Last Line: The ponderous train had killed thee as its heavy wheels went round
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters


LITTLE DESIRES AND HOW THEY GREW, by NAN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If a girl was lucky not to have a brother
Last Line: Far apart and alone, but thinking of the same longing
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Children; Desire


LONELINESS OF MY BROTHER, by SHERYL NOETHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the loneliness of my brother
Last Line: Or maybe something winged lies hurt %in my deep grass
Subject(s): Brothers; Solitude


LONG AFTER YOU ARE ASHES, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the yard the tree is changing from what it was
Last Line: And slowly change and change
Subject(s): Brothers; Growth


LOSING FATHER'S POCKETWATCH, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lean to heft the anchor in, when oh
Last Line: Of his strokes ringing the air
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady
Last Line: Was folded in a pannier.
Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean


MARKETS, ALLEYS & HOUNDS OF HELL, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother, whom we called rano
Last Line: Inflamed with laughter
Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Jokes; Laughter


MAX AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Max an' jim / they're each other's
Last Line: She'll haf to eat 'em!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brothers; Obesity; Slenderness; Half-brothers; Thinness


MEMORIAL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing prolongs. Neither the bronze plaque
Last Line: Fails you and fails. Forgive this second murder
Subject(s): Brothers; Murder; Half-brothers


METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brothers; Eve; Half-brothers


METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual
Last Line: But what can I reap? What can I destroy?
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Brothers


MULTAS PER GENTES, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my poor brother, I have journeyed here
Last Line: Ave, forever vale, my poor brother
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Brothers; Death


MY BABY BROTHER, by BRUCE LANSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My baby brother is so small
Last Line: Is by the smell he leaves behind him
Subject(s): Brothers


MY BROTHER, by WILLILAM HOOPER HOWELLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear brother, hast thou kept the faith with me?
Last Line: Among the knights of arthur's table round.
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


MY BROTHER, by MOLLY KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother used to be there
Last Line: Deaf to the hum of another gold tennessee twilight
Subject(s): Brothers


MY BROTHER, by JOHN MOULTRIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My boyish days are nearly gone
Last Line: When shall I find its like again?
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The


MY BROTHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! And he has died so young
Last Line: Those we grieve for love us yet!
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Life; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MY BROTHER AND SISTER, IN THE COUNTRY; WRITTEN IN LONDON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy soon we'll meet again
Last Line: Happy, happy, shall we be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters


MY BROTHER BERT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pets are the hobby of my brother bert
Last Line: And what, oh what, would the neighbors say
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Brothers; Pets


MY BROTHER IS HOMEMADE, by SAM CORNISH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Grew darker %than most
Subject(s): African Americans; Brothers


MY BROTHER SHAKES THE BOTTLE, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Davis is wearing his best irrelevant boots and jacket
Last Line: All over %himself
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Native Americans


MY BROTHER SPEAKS, by MIMMO IASIELLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I often think of it, my brother's face
Last Line: On another, leaving me to fill those terrible empty shoes
Subject(s): Brothers; Farewell


MY BROTHER THE ARTIST, AT SEVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a boy he played alone in the fields
Subject(s): Brothers; Play; Solitude; Youth; Half-brothers; Loneliness


MY FAMILY OF PEOPLE: DAD, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daddy drives a train
Last Line: Sometimes, he plays our piano
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


MY FAMILY OF PEOPLE: MOM, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mommy wears flat earrings
Last Line: Then mommy marks essay after essay
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 33D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto thy brother buy not, sell, nor lend
Last Line: That thou hast power, and he necessity.
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


NEVERLAND, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bending over her bed, I saw the smile
Last Line: And now it grows faint, and now I cannot hear it
Subject(s): Death; Brothers & Sisters; Dead, The


NIGHT, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My eye cried and woke me
Last Line: The night was pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


OMI ROSE, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her face was such a warm doll
Last Line: Our baby - omi!
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


ON HER BROTHE SAKHR, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: No day was sad as the day sakhr
Last Line: I say there was no one like him in the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


ON HER BROTHER, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother was not a camel driver
Last Line: When they overtook him they shouted %like shepherds at daybreak
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR BROTHER, RICHARD FLATMAN; PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy muse! Employ'd so oft
Last Line: Then some kind friend perhaps may drop one tear for me.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The


ONE, by ELEANOR MARIE WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are not many peoples / but a people
Last Line: Makes it like unto a lie.
Subject(s): Brothers; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers


OPPOSITE FIELD, by DABNEY STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old photograph shows you
Last Line: Of its landing becomes %our purest dream
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters


ORGAN SONGS: THE OLD CASTLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brother knew well the castle old
Last Line: Like the diamond shine!
Subject(s): Brothers; Castles; Prisons & Prisoners; Half-brothers


OUR CAT, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She touches with her paw
Last Line: Fantastic family friend - firefur!
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


PLACES YOUR BROTHER WOULD SEND YOU, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: This doesn't speak to abel's complaint
Last Line: I have polished my life to pearl
Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Relationships


POEM FOR SHANE ON HER BROTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by DONALD T. SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the early winter
Last Line: Silver tulips of electric light %for her brother
Subject(s): Birthdays; Brothers


PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches are mad with green points
Last Line: And it ends.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Despair; Brothers


POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 12. THE BROTHER BURGESSES, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two busy brothers in our place reside
Last Line: Within one tomb, beneath one stone, they rest!
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


PRESUMPTION, by LAURA HENRIKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother has no luck
Last Line: I'm fond of my brother
Subject(s): Brothers


PROBLEM SOLVING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a knoll above the arno he watches its muscular washes work
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Arno River, Italy; Brothers & Sisters


RAIN TO THE TRIBE, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: O eye, weep for a rider
Last Line: Who will rise from the desert? Who will save us %after my mother's son is buried
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face
Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Paradise


RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face
Last Line: He says, feel my muscle, and I do
Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women


REJOICE, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's time to clear the cobwebs from our throats, and voice
Last Line: Everything %is anything %but simple
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


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


RUNNED AWAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear sis: I wrote this noat to say I've been an
Last Line: Hiding in the stable.
Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Escapes; Family Life; Letters; Sisters; Half-brothers; Childhood; Fugitives; Relatives


S. MATTHIAS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There must be twelve; ye other sunn
Last Line: Judge the proud tribes then trembling at thy feet.
Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ - Legends; Saints; Half-brothers


SESTINA; FOR TED BERRIGAN, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As love as what by chance as brotherly
Last Line: Community, answers death just with poetry or else.
Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Brothers; Death; Love; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Half-brothers; Dead, The


SIBLING RIVALRY, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have no older sister
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters


SIBLING RIVALRY, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have no older sister
Last Line: The one I can't remember
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters


SIETE ROBLES, by THERESA M. MCLEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond a mountain trail
Last Line: Than health, and these.
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives


SIGN, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few days after their mother's mind, like a rotten beam, started giving
Last Line: The sign, he realized, had been misread
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


SIGNIFICANT OTHER, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1811, in siam
Last Line: In the bed beside him, %died of fright
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Human Abnormalities; Twins


SILHOUETTES, by EDNA BINTLIFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stiff cat-tails mirrored in a pool
Last Line: Is never known to me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers


SINGING FOR ELIZABETH, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often have I tried to please you
Last Line: Then sing to her down the trash-lit alley of air
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Relationships


SLEEPLESS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was sleepless, I was awake all night
Last Line: As your stomach burst, punctured above the nipples, %spurting the foam of your heart's blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War


SOME ACCOUNT OF A NEW PLAY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In reply to your letter, and fanny's
Last Line: Write a nautical novel, -- and send it to bentley!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


STILL LIFE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Aubergin and yellow glazes
Last Line: Idle now, it lolls at ease.
Subject(s): Babies; Brothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Half-brothers; Death - Childbirth


STILL LIFE, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mind long gone, having forgot to shut
Last Line: Before anything whatsoever had begun
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


STOLEN LIFE, by ELIZABETH WILLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Siblings are forever, spinning out fate like an evil twin
Last Line: She can hold her own at sea
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Sisters


STRANGE PIETA, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When, in the shallows of late afternoon
Last Line: These explosions in the distance as dull applause
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


SUPPLE CORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother, in his small white bed
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives


TA SUO XING, by SHEN YIXIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dream broken, hope abandoned
Last Line: Orion slides, the moon falls, the darkness goes on forever
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Dreams; Grief


TABLE AND THE CHAIR, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the table to the chair
Last Line: Till they toddled to their beds
Subject(s): Brothers; Nonsense; Togetherness; Walking


TAKING BROTHER'S PICTURE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He felt quite miser'ble, I know
Last Line: "said ""look as pleasant as you can!"
Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Discontent; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Half-brothers; Childhood; Dissatisfaction


TALE: 20. THE BROTHERS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Than old george fletcher, on the british coast
Last Line: Without a hope in life -- without a wish to die.
Subject(s): Brothers; Sailing & Sailors; Half-brothers; Seamen; Sails


TALES OF THREE BROTHERS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three little pigs; the tedious three sons
Last Line: But various enough so that there will be
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Legends


TALKNG AMONG OURSELVES, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rental cottage it comes to me,
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Divorce; Grief; Half-brothers; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears, ere thy death, for many a one I shed
Last Line: (r. A. Nicholson)
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Tears; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BRAVE BROTHER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two little brothers thro' the forest roam'd
Last Line: For their deliverance.
Subject(s): Brothers; Courage; Half-brothers; Valor; Bravery


THE BROTHERS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slumber, sleep - they were two brothers
Last Line: Slumber did his brother's duty -- sleep was deepen'd into death.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The


THE BROTHERS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I watched my brothers play
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


THE BROTHERS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are but two - the others sleep
Last Line: Till side by side we lie.
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


THE BROTHERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were twa brethren fell on strife
Last Line: And the wind wears owre the heather.
Subject(s): Brothers; Life; Half-brothers


THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Call my brother back to me
Last Line: "would I had loved him more!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Half-brothers; Death - Babies


THE COCK AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a tree there mounted guard
Last Line: Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive.
Subject(s): Brothers; Fables; Quarrels; Relationships; Roosters; Half-brothers; Allegories; Arguments; Disagreements; Cocks


THE CONVALESCENT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I walked among the willows very quietly all night
Last Line: But mother's sayin' nothin', and she clasps -- a silver cross.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War


THE CRUEL BROTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were three ladies played at the ba'
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters;family Life;marriage;murder; Relatives;weddings;husbands;wives


THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by GEORGE FREDERICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years
Last Line: Of earth, and of sea, and of air.
Subject(s): Animals; Blood; Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE ELDER BROTHER, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Centrick, in london noise, and london follies
Last Line: "for,—keep the secret,—you're his elder brother."
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


THE FAITH OF A CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've learned the tale of the crooning waves
Last Line: Of rosses by the sea.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Faith; Heaven; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed; Paradise


THE FOOL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But it isn't playing the game,' he said
Last Line: In the last great game of all.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War


THE GAME-KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Georgie, whom do you love best?'
Last Line: At a little maid's caress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Love; Relationships


THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth
Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight!
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE KING OF ARRAGON'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were lights and sounds of revelling
Last Line: "my brother! Oh, my brother! Best and bravest! Thou art gone!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Mourning; Bereavement


THE LITTLE BROTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O brother, brother, come down to the crags by the bay
Last Line: That I laugh and laugh to see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


THE MEETING OF THE BROTHERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The voices of two forest boys
Last Line: Whose hearts yearn on -- but mingle not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


THE MINNEAPOLIS POEM, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder how many old men last winter
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Minneapolis; City & Town Life; Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The


THE PLAINT HUMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Season of snows, and season of
Last Line: And much too much of the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brothers; Flowers; Grief; Seasons; Snow; Half-brothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 240, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have six brothers
Last Line: Everybody praises
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Punishment; Shame; Half-brothers; Relatives


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 23, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was pickup from the first
Last Line: Count the times the yellow river has cleared
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China; Half-brothers


THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure
Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights.
Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips


THE REPLACEMENT, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And across the country I know
Last Line: Turn him over to the world
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters


THE RUSTLE OF A WING, by ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is a narrow vale between the cold
Last Line: Were haunted by a thousand fairy forms.
Variant Title(s): Hope Sees A Star
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The


THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure
Last Line: . . . . . . .
Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THE SONG OF FIONULA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, sleep, brothers dear, sleep and dream
Last Line: To sleep and dream, ah, that is well indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brothers; Comfort; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy our father lir afar
Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery


THE STOCKMAN'S TALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the campfire's burning brightly, and the coals are glowing red"
Last Line: Pass it by as I always have with silent cool contempt
Subject(s): Abstinence;alcohol & Alcoholics;brothers;death;story-telling; "half-brothers;dead, The;


THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the table to the chair
Subject(s): Brothers; Nonsense; Togetherness; Walking; Half-brothers


THE TWINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were two brothers, john and james
Last Line: And john? Well, search the potter's field.
Subject(s): Brothers; War; World War I; Half-brothers; First World War


THE WORLD (1), by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted so ably / to reassure you
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Life


THE WORLD OF THE PERFECT TEAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire from a fixed star
Last Line: To raise the living up
Subject(s): Arks; Brothers; Death; Noah (bible); Stars; Half-brothers; Dead, The


TIMOLEON (394 B.C.), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If more than once, as annals tell
Last Line: And never for corinth left the adopted shore.
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Timoleon (d. 337 B.c.); Youth


TO CATULLUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother, my valerius, dearest head
Last Line: My brother?
Subject(s): Brothers; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Rome, Italy; Roundels; Half-brothers


TO CHARLEY, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou the poet-gift? Thou hast
Last Line: A sheridan—without his shames!
Subject(s): Brothers; Canada; Epigram (as Literary Form); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers; Canadians


TO DR. AIKIN ON HIS COMPLAINING THAT SHE NEGLECTED HIM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will my dear brother, and indulgent friend
Last Line: With lovely error crown my worthless lays.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Letters


TO HIS DEAR BROTHER COLONEL F.L. MOURNING DEATH AT CARMARTHEN, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If tears could wash the ill away
Last Line: Doth starry influence dissolve.
Subject(s): Brothers; Carmarthen, Wales; Mourning; Half-brothers; Bereavement


TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life of my life, take not so soone thy flight
Last Line: Heavy, to hurt those sacred seeds of thee.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


TO L.H.B., by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night for the first time since you were dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Dreams; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares


TO MY BROTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Muse of friendship wake the lyre
Last Line: This a sister's genuine prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


TO MY BROTHER (1), by MARY BRYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, thou art far away from me -- dear boy!
Last Line: And love the very tear thou chid'st the while.
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


TO MY BROTHER (2), by MARY BRYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in our customed walk a wounded bird
Last Line: "nay, nay, dear mary! Thou hast much to learn."
Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers


TO MY BROTHER AT ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, by ELIZABETH TOLLET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blest be the man, who first the method found
Last Line: Nor in the patriot's labours lose the friend.
Subject(s): Brothers; Cambridge University; Half-brothers


TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, today I'm on the stone bench outside our house
Last Line: In coming out. Okay? It could upset mama
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Home; Love


TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house
Last Line: Coming out. All right? Mama might worry
Subject(s): Brothers; Memory; Shadows; Soul


TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL IN MEMORIAM, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench 0f the house
Subject(s): Brothers; Death


TO MY BROTHER, WHO DIED BEFORE I WAS BORN, by MICHAEL T. YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're everything I strive to say but can't
Last Line: To name this spirit before it is gone
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life


TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you so long dead
Last Line: The language as long as the language survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War


TO MY ELDEST BROTHER, LIEUTENANT .. HIS TWENTY-FIRST YEAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While hope, the syren fair and gay
Last Line: "to hail the gallant fusileer."
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Birthdays; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers


TO MY IMAGINARY SIBLINGS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear brother and sister
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Imagination; Fancy


TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER ... AFTER THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though dark are the prospects and heavy the hours
Last Line: And beam through the cloud of despair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers; Corunna, Spain; Homecoming; War; Half-brothers


TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER, ON HIS ENTERING THE ARMY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Thou dear thou gallant boy
Last Line: Will bless our noble fusileer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers


TO THE MEMORY OF HIS DEAR BROTHER, MR THOMAS RANDOLPH, by ROBERT RANDOLPH (1611-1670)    Poem Text                    
First Line: In such a solemn train of friends that sing
Last Line: Ill-shap'd abroad, th' art fairly dress'd at home.
Subject(s): Brothers; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Half-brothers


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SISTER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little sister heart, without thy big brother the rude brain
Last Line: Gazest again on the cameo in thy chamber.
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Love; Solitude; Loneliness


TWO BOYS, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These were two of the funniest boys
Last Line: Where these two brothers lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Death; Friendship; Half-brothers; Dead, The


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 29. IN THE STATES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With half a heart I wander here
Last Line: San francisco.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Aging; Brothers; Half-brothers


WARNING TO THE COMET HYAKUTAKE ABOUT THE OLAFSEN BROTHERS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At first you were only a smear
Last Line: Conceivably reach you and make trouble
Subject(s): Brothers; Comets


WHEN, TO THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE BUSY WORLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mingling most earnest wishes for the day
Subject(s): Brothers; Nature


WITH SISTER'S DOLLS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dolls are silly things to play with
Last Line: If you never say your prayers?
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Dolls; Toys


WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now
Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor
Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women; Half-brothers


WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now
Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor
Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women


WORK, by GREGORY FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This afternoon, my father is working
Last Line: For you some day. Your work is done
Subject(s): Brothers; Spina Bifida


WORLD (1), by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted so ably %to reassure you
Last Line: For another morning %in the world
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Life


WOULD BE MORE THAN KIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady is most fair and kind
Last Line: I cannot bear to be your brother!
Subject(s): Beauty; Brothers And Sisters; Incest; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


WRONG WORDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't tell me you can't remember
Last Line: Stir cain in the blood
Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Past