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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SISTERS Matches Found: 246 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ...WHO WAS BORN DEAD, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: She is far away. Very far Last Line: Who did not speak, but I listen to you yet Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sisters 1956, THE YEAR MY SISTER, USING HER ILL HEALTH ONCE AGAIN ..., by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: My mother even hated Last Line: With an ear for a good accordion %and all the musics one can make Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Sickness; Sisters A BOY GOES INTO THE WORLD, by JANE KENYON Poem Full 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 MITHER'S CRY (WRITTEN ON A SISTER'S GRAVE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We played together, she and I Last Line: And her two bairns upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Sisters; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO TWO OF HER SISTER MISTERIS A.B., by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I to my brethern wrote, and to my sisters two Last Line: Your loving sister. Is. W. Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ACROSTIC; GEORGIANA AUGUSTA KEATS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your patience sister while I frame Last Line: Sons, daughters and a home like honied hive. Subject(s): Sisters ADMONITION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are / their sister. Nevertheless Last Line: Pure and deadly. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Poisons And Poisoning; Sisters ALL OF US BENEATH RED COWBOY HATS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full 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 ALMA ROSE WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: On the carriage on my way, (blots? Clots?) of dark on the hills Last Line: When I see you-if seas be calm and weather clear, alma rose Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters; Writing And Writers AN EPISTLE, FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister, / if soliloquy conduce Last Line: Of inward life thanksgiving is the sap. Subject(s): Patience; Relationships; Sisters ANALEPSIS, by JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI Poem Source First Line: Mere oranges tempted you back Last Line: In ours, every lack is felt twice Subject(s): Sisters; Twins AROUND THE WORLD, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In gocart so tiny Last Line: Put off till to-morrow Subject(s): Sisters AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full 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 BALLAD OF THE BENDS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the wall there is a hall Last Line: For it's too late for any mate %to unbend either bent Subject(s): Sisters BEAUTY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the medication she was taking Last Line: That, too, was beautiful Subject(s): Beauty; Brotherds And Sisters; Aging; Transience; Impermanence 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 BIG SISTER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house seems wrongside out to-day Last Line: "big sister's got a valentine!" Subject(s): Children; Sisters; Childhood BORN IN A CROWD, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Now I was my mother's twentieth child Last Line: She always looked after me Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Sisters 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 BURIAL INSURANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full 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 BURY A SISTER, by DAVID HUNTER SUTHERLAND Poem Source First Line: In lucid spaces, %in cavalcade spurning movement to form Last Line: All that remains of what is left to abhor Subject(s): Funerals; Sisters CALMING KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be quiet awful woman Last Line: I know I am your sister Subject(s): Caregivers; Sisters CALMING KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be quiet awful woman Last Line: Awful woman, %I know I am your sister Subject(s): Caregivers; Sisters CAMP OF NO RETURN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the old tree swing without swinging. My loafer had fallen off Subject(s): Sisters; Absence; Separation; Isolation CASIDA OF THE SHADOWY PIGEONS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I saw two shadowy pigeons Last Line: And both were neither Subject(s): Birds; Pigeons; Sisters CIVIL WAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my sister's kitchen Last Line: I am forever / committed Subject(s): Birds; Sisters 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 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 CONCERNING SISTERS-IN-LAW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They looked so alike as they sat at their work Last Line: That my very dear wife was my sister-in-law Subject(s): Sisters-in-law DANCING ON ROUGH WATER: THREE SISTERS ON ROUGH WATER, 1959, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: I see it at the last light-clustering wash of sleep Last Line: While he sleeps in the play and service of their beauty Subject(s): Sisters; Water DAY MY SISTER LEFT US, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: The family gibberish Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Sisters 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 DIRTY-BILLED FREEZE FOOTY, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Remember that saturday morning Last Line: Whenever she caught sight of you %it would start all over again Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Sisters 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 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 ELDER SISTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at my elder sister now Last Line: Bofy held in front of me Subject(s): Sisters ELEGY A LITTLE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Linoleum and half a dozen eggs Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters; Relatives ELEGY FOR MY SISTER, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was born sarah gossett ballenger Subject(s): Death; Brothers & Sisters ELEGY FOR MY SISTER (2), by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was born sarah gossett ballenger Last Line: Beneath the sill: a girl's hushed voice exhorting itself in %whispers Subject(s): Sisters ELEGY FOR MY SISTER QIONGZHANG [XIAOLUAN], by YE WANWAN Poem Source First Line: Having just composed a poem to urge on qiongzhang's wedding makeup Last Line: In the human world remains eternal sorrow Subject(s): Sisters ELEGY FOR MY SISTER ZHAOQI [WANWAN], by YE XIAOWAN Poem Source First Line: Your nature loved cloudy seclusion, you never betrayed your will Last Line: Blood and tears flow from every inch of my breaking heart Subject(s): Sisters EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister! My sweet sister! If a name Last Line: The tie which bound the first endures the last! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sisters ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike Last Line: For all such musings. Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness EUDOXIA: FIRST PICTURE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweetest my sister, my sister that sits in the sun Last Line: Midst the saints high in heaven, than thou, angel sister of mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sisters EUDOXIA: SECOND PICTURE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest my sister, my sister who sits by the hearth Last Line: Or open -- he holds it forever above thee; -- he knows! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sisters EUDOXIA: THIRD PICTURE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silent my sister, who stands by my side at the shore Last Line: "love ever -- love only -- love faithfully -- love to the last." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sisters FAMILY, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Elder sister, %who is coming, in the loft? Last Line: We are all here Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The habit is heavy Last Line: No whole abiding / sister Subject(s): Habits; Sisters; Women & Religion FARNEY'S SISTER, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm expected for many days had tasted Last Line: To look up at farney's sister, I can't Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures; Sisters FOR A STILL-BORN NIECE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: A thousand miles from you, sister Last Line: As becomes for the child's soul Subject(s): Absence; Sisters; Stillbirth FOR BERENICE, by PIERRE BENOIT Poem Text First Line: Berenice, your sister, the edomite queen Last Line: Resembles the marshes of tyre and of sidon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sisters; Twins; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR HER HIDING PLACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight on to our backs %like death Subject(s): Memory; Sisters FORTH FROM A JUTTING RIDGE, AROUND WHOSE BASE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From age to age in blended memory Subject(s): Sisters; Mountains; Death 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 FROM THE WOMEN'S WRITING, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Mother I went down to the well this morning Last Line: I am glad you are free in your own dimension %and I no longer need to frighten you Subject(s): Fear; Growth; Mothers And Daughters; Sisters GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (1), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why look at me so much as if today Last Line: And don't say that again Subject(s): Relationships; Sisters GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (2), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't look at me so much as if to-day Last Line: Oh, stop that! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Relationships; Sisters GOBLIN MARKET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening / maids heard the goblins cry Last Line: "to strengthen whilst one stands." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fairies; Gays & Lesbians; Sisters; Elves; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HARD LOVE, by ANDREA O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: In the not quiet moon glow Last Line: And for all the hard love we hold inside %for the other woman Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Death; Love; Sisters; Women HARRIET, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet there was always somebody calling us crazy Last Line: "waht name shall we call our selves / now Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Sisters; Death – Mothers HEAVEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full 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 HERE RESTS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister josephine Subject(s): Sisters HIDING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Because the moon in late october made landmarks glow: the broken gate, our yar Last Line: Materializing through trees. Subject(s): Children; October; Sisters; Youth HOCKEY SISTER POEM #9, by SHANNON BRAMER Poem Source First Line: The truth is I admire him Last Line: A heavy coin in his everyday %pocket Subject(s): Hockey; Sisters 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 HYMN FOR LANIE POO, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O / these wild trees Last Line: For that mayyer, by god Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HYMN FOR LANIE POO, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O %these wild trees Last Line: Benevolent step %mother america Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters I FOLLOW, GYPSY ROAD, by DOROTHY WHITTINGTON Poem Text First Line: Tell me, oh gypsy roadway Last Line: Why I follow you on! Subject(s): Sisters I HAVE SOUGHT...., by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought thirty years, my sisters Last Line: Seek as I have done. . . . Subject(s): Hearts; Sisters; Wandering & Wanderers I WISH I HAD MORE SISTERS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sisters; Conduct Of Life 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 ILIA'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "then startled from her sleep, she spoke" Last Line: "until my sleep departed -- and, oh! My heart was sore" Subject(s): Dreams;sisters;sleep;tears; Nightmares IN MARY'S MONTH; TO MY YOUNGER SISTER ON HER BIRTHDAY, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: In mary's month, in mary's month Last Line: As first sweets of the spring. Subject(s): Birthdays; Oxford University; Sisters IN REPLY TO A POEM BY HER YOUNGER SISTER, PRINCESS NUKADA, by KAGAMI Poem Source First Line: The wind blew: for you Last Line: And now, my heart bleeds! Subject(s): Sisters INTRODUCTORY VERSES TO MARIA HACK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay! Do not half reproachfully exclaim Last Line: "^1^thomas day, the author of ""sandford and merton." Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Hack, Maria Barton (1777-1844); Sisters; Poetry & Poets 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 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) JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full 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 KINDERGARTEN, by GLORIA ABRAHAMSON Poem Source First Line: My sister was delicious. %her skin, toasted marshmallow Last Line: And sent my sister %to play outside %in the street Subject(s): Kindergarten; Sisters KORNER AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest Last Line: Lyre, sword, and flower, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Grave Of Korner Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Sisters; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LANE IS THE PRETTY ONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her veins run mogen david Last Line: Love %dear sister Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sisters LETTER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister, where was it, where is it now Last Line: That anyone was going to understand that. Subject(s): Sisters LIES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Probably no one noticed the mornings I disappeared to sit Last Line: The little mothers and sisters. Subject(s): Lies; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Sisters 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, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sister of him Subject(s): Sisters LITTLE, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sister of him Last Line: But every morning he still is %too little to look Subject(s): 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 LITTLE SISTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl of presence fresh and fair Last Line: Making her saintly, while they make her dear. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Pain; Sin; Sisters; Soul; Optimism; Suffering; Misery LITTLE SISTER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: I was the youngest of nine children. The morning they found me, the Last Line: Fell and fell %afterwards Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Sisters LITTLE SISTER BORN IN THIS LAND, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: When you slip Last Line: It isn't a reproach %sister %little sister born in this land Subject(s): Children; Sisters LOGS ON THE HEARTH; A MEMORY OF A SISTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire advances along the log Last Line: Laughing, her young brown hand awave. Subject(s): Sisters LOT OF MY SISTER, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: The only prostitute I ever met Last Line: I let him Subject(s): Sisters 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 LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies MELANIE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on yonder rocky brow Last Line: Peace to the broken-hearted dead! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sisters; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MISSING NATALIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Most of my friends don't know I was born a twin. She was born sixty-three Last Line: Together. She left without me Subject(s): Absence; Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons; Sisters; Tragedy; Twins MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PHOTOS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and my sister Last Line: Up where something that %had got away had been Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Sisters MY BABY SISTER HAS A BEAU, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Of all the changes back at home Last Line: When girls begin to have a beau. Subject(s): Aging; Sisters 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 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 MY LITTLE SISTER, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little sister had everything Last Line: Death at twenty. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Youth; Dead, The MY LITTLE SISTER: 28, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: My sister sits happy Last Line: The marriage contract will be written in stone Subject(s): Brides; Sisters MY SHATTERED SISTER, by NAOMI HELENA QUINONEZ Poem Source First Line: Sister, I wish to be the waters Last Line: Of america to the south Subject(s): Family Life; Mexican American Families; Sisters MY SISTER, by RAFAEL AREVALO MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: I have a sister who is pale, a sister who is ailing Last Line: O sister, if you love me, do not fall ill again! Subject(s): Love; Sisters MY SISTER ANNA CLARE WRITES FROM LEWIS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: If we had wanted abundance I suppose Last Line: Of comfort on the next boat we would be grateful Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters; Writing And Writers MY SISTER'S FUNERAL, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Funerals; Grief; Death - Babies; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness MY SISTER, THE QUEEN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking the broad allee past kensington palace Last Line: Through the unearthly gardens Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): England; Courts & Courtiers; Sisters MY SISTERS, by BILL KUSHNER Poem Source First Line: So what's love? I'd watch my 2 older sisters Subject(s): Sisters MY SISTERS, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like flowers that softly bloom together Last Line: To form in heaven one mystic chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Sisters NEVERLAND, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full 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 OLDER SISTER, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Forever, she rides Last Line: Than the recipe required Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters OLGA POEMS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the gas-fire, kneeling Subject(s): Sisters OLGA POEMS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the gas-fire, kneeling Last Line: Of festive goodness in back of their hard, or veiled, or shining, %unknowable gaze Subject(s): Sisters 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 RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry Last Line: Better to die, than live and not be lov'd! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON TAKING LEAVE OF - , 1817 [SHORTER VERSION OF 'TO TWO SISTERS'], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know, to esteem, to love - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye of all the world beside! Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting ON THE APPROACH OF A SISTER'S DEATH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who risest to eternal day Last Line: (how soon!) before the throne. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON THE BIRTH OF A SISTER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sweet babe, I cannot hope thou wilt be freed Last Line: And fly to seek the bosom of thy god. Subject(s): Sisters ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is born to suffer Last Line: And now I write -- what thou shalt never see! Subject(s): Mourning; Sisters; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER WHILE ABSENT AT SCHOOL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sister! Is it so? And shall I see Last Line: Saviour of souls! I thank thee for her bliss. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR SISTER ELIZA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If spotless innocence, and truth, refined Last Line: "no more my spirit death or sickness fears." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MY SISTER THE COUNTESS OF BRIDGEWATER IN CHILDBED, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god thy judgments unto sinfull eye Last Line: How much she knew her glory in the call. Subject(s): Brackley, Lady Elizabeth (1626-1663); Sisters; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth ONE NIGHT, MISSING MY YOUNGER SISTER, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: Through the fallen leaves of empty forests cries the evening crow Last Line: A gleaming moon of southern skies shines west of the pavilion Subject(s): Absence; Sisters 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 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 OUR FAMILY TREE; ON THE DEATH OF MY SISTER CECILIA, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our family tree is in the sear Last Line: Our names shine bright as day. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Sisters; Dead, The; Relatives OUR LOVELY PIONEER, by ELVA N. LOVELL Poem Text First Line: In the club there is a lady Last Line: Yes, our lovely pioneer. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Sisters OUR MOTHERS, LOVELY WOMEN PITIFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whether or not you bear to look on me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters OZARK ODES: PORCH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can still see cuddihy's sisters Last Line: Under one another's arms Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sisters PARIS'S SECOND JUDGMENT, UPON THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF ROBERT CAESAR, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! Three sister-wonders, in whom met Last Line: "what pity the whole world is but one ball!" Subject(s): Sisters PENGUINS IN TROUBLE WORLDWIDE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrowful and joyful mysteries, they were Last Line: Farewell, my teachers, fierce sisters of mercy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sisters; Teaching And Teachers; Widows And Widowers PERSONAL LETTER: FOR MY SISTER, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Sister, we have become % a naked dream Last Line: Half opened, frozen %over by your frost Subject(s): Absence; Sisters PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Procne said, it happened at my wedding Subject(s): Mythology; Marriage; Rape; Sisters; Revenge; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POEM FOR MY SISTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like he always said Last Line: And holy %'all goodby ain't gone' Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sisters PRESENTIMENT, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister, you've sent there all the day Last Line: She ne'er shall come to jane! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Sisters PROBLEM SOLVING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full 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 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 SAINT AND SINNER, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: My sister was a sinner Last Line: Who? What? How? Where? And when? Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Sisters SANIYA'S DREAMS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year I shared a room with her Subject(s): Sisters SIBLING RIVALRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full 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 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 SISTER, by JEAN ESTEVE Poem Source First Line: It could as well have not happened Last Line: So I won't. So I'll tell you just that marigolds %are lovelier than grass Subject(s): Parents; Sisters SISTER, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: The young woman at the back of the bookstore Last Line: Thick and throaty, viscous, translucent honey Subject(s): Sisters SISTER SUKIE II, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I believe you came Last Line: Precious medallion around our lives Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sisters SISTER TO SISTER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce can I see your golden head Last Line: His arms about you, sister. Subject(s): Sisters SISTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Me and you be sisters Last Line: Got black Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sisters SISTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me and you be sisters Last Line: Only where you sing %I poet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sisters SISTERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a fiery scroll, and a trumpet of thunder might Last Line: Winning his indian gems to shine in his glorious crown! Subject(s): Sisters SISTERS, by NANCY G. WESTERFIELD Poem Source First Line: The youngest, who would grow up delinquent Last Line: Spurs, lassoing them in ropes of her red hair Subject(s): Life; Sisters SISTERS AND WATER, by KATHY KOLIAN-DIMEGLIO Poem Source First Line: We carry crystal goblet %clear cool water Last Line: Will come cold to the table %will come from some higher ground Subject(s): Sisters; Water SISTERS, SELS., by ANDREW STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: The sisters lived outside town in a house Last Line: She is looking out the window Subject(s): Houses; Sisters SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 1. TWICE ALIVE: DETROIT; THE SECRET..., by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not yet the blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz Last Line: The windows failing-oh the wonder!-of her dying Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Sisters; Survival SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 2. LEAVE-TAKING; DETROIT; QUESTIONS...., by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not yet the ecstasy, the iconic thrill Last Line: My sister will not survive another winter Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sisters SONNET: 81. ON A LOCK OF MISS SARAH SEWARD'S HAIR WHO DIED 20TH YEAR, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My angel sister, though thy lovely form Last Line: From the resistless ravage of the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Death; Hair; Sisters; Dead, The SOOTHING THE BURN, by ELIZABETH POLINER Poem Source First Line: My sister and I, barely teenage Last Line: I feel her palms gather the burn, open to fire Subject(s): Grandparents; Sisters; Sunbathing; Vacation SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl we didn't actually know Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters; Dead, The; Recessions SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl we didn't actually know Last Line: Always made her feel glamorous Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters STATION (3), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching my little sister how to fly when she broke Last Line: "the snow is disappearing toward Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters STATION (4), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its back was leaves that mimed the leaves in back of us Last Line: "the backdrop won’t drop back Subject(s): Piety; Sisters 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 SYLVIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across a space peopled with stars I am Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TALES OF THREE BROTHERS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full 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 TASSO AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat, where on each wind that sighed Last Line: He of the sword and pen! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sisters; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Women THAT DAY, WHEN I BECAME, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: & I, I was so loved Subject(s): Children; Sisters 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 ELDER SISTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at my elder sister now Subject(s): Sisters 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 GOOD LITTLE SISTER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a bitter winter Last Line: Who gave her more than they all! Subject(s): Sisters 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 SISTER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind knocks at the window Last Line: That some evil thing is nigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Evil; Sisters; Dead, The THE MUSES' COMFORTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meseems I scarce could live, but for the muse Last Line: On which high minds may feed and never tire. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Muses; Sisters; Sorrow; Sadness THE PILGRIMAGE (OF SEVEN AND SEVENTY SISTERS), by ANNALEONE DAVIS PATTON Poem Text First Line: Over the silver-ribboned highway Last Line: Truly serves the lord. Subject(s): Crusades; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Pioneers; Sisters THE REPLACEMENT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full 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 RIDDLING KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three sisters fair and bright Last Line: As the dew flies over the mulberry tree Variant Title(s): The Three Sisters Subject(s): Sisters THE SAME, by G. D. Poem Text First Line: I can picture her now Last Line: And my sister, you see. Subject(s): Love; Sisters THE SISTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the little quiet town Last Line: And ships upon the sea? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Laughter; Sisters; Childhood THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SISTER'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happened once, in that brave land that lies Last Line: She that was loved and she that loved in vain! Subject(s): Love; Sisters THE SISTERS, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: We four / live here together Last Line: And gave me their secrets. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sisters THE SISTERS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how to comfort thee Last Line: Into its native peace. Subject(s): Sisters THE SISTERS, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: There are two sisters, one is a rose Last Line: Ribbon fades on the sapped stem. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Sisters THE SISTERS, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: The martha-in-me filled her days Last Line: And my house is in order because of them. Subject(s): Sisters THE SISTERS, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sleeps where the biscayan pines Last Line: Now we are one again. Subject(s): Sisters THE SISTERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves forever move Last Line: A mary's cloistered prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Sisters; Theology THE SISTERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were two daughters of one race Last Line: O, the earl was fair to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SISTERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie and rhoda, sisters twain Last Line: "thine the living, and mine the dead!" Subject(s): Sisters THE SISTERS OF SCIO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister, sweet sister! Let me weep awhile! Last Line: "our path is one -- with thee I live and die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Love; Sisters THE SISTERS' DREAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps! But not the free and sunny sleep Last Line: Where, where should sisters love, if not on high? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dreams; Sisters; Nightmares THE SISTERS; A BALLAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go, sweet sister! Yet,my heart would linger Last Line: Where the world's voice can reach no more! Oh. Calm thee! -- fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sisters THE SISTERS; A PICTURE BY BARRY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shade for me, but over thee Last Line: Which folds us both unseen! Subject(s): Barry, James (1741-1806); Paintings And Painters; Sisters THE SONG AT TWILIGHT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: When evening spreads her shades around Last Line: And, sister, sing the song I love?. Variant Title(s): To My Sister Subject(s): Sisters THE TEA-PARTY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not with you, sisters, in your talk Last Line: Turned as they fled, and left me charity. Subject(s): Family Life; Food & Eating; Life; Parties; Sisters; Tea; Relatives THE THREE SISTERS, by ACHILLE MILLIEN Poem Text First Line: As daylight passes there go three lasses Last Line: "I who know,"" saith the elder, ""am dying away." Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sisters THE TWA SYSTRES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the mirk did fa' lang syne, lang syne" Last Line: They that be leel sleep saft taegither Subject(s): Sisters THE WOMAN WHO LOOKS FOR HER LOST SISTER SHE SAYS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks all the time in the heart ward Last Line: ‘no,’ she said, ‘it’s too late for flowers dear.’ Subject(s): Flowers; Sisters THE WORLD (1), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted so ably / to reassure you Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Life THE ZEPHYR; FRAGMENT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the calm of one summer evening Last Line: On that sweet summer night. Subject(s): Memory; Sisters THREE SISTERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sisters rest beneath Last Line: And adelaide. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sisters THREE SISTERS, by LILLIAN DURHAM DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Three sisters walk our village street Last Line: If you let them in they will take your bed! Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Gossip; Sisters THREE SISTERS, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Johanna talks of lemuel Last Line: When she is sitting so. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Sisters; Enigmas; Oddities 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 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 KATHLEEN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the poet as of old Last Line: As there are flowers and you and song. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Sisters TO MARGARET, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: These hands, worn thin by many years of toil Last Line: Where you with him will hear my prayer. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Empathy TO MATILDA, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At a call unforseen thou wert taken! Last Line: And intimations of lands afar. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy TO MERLE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say skinny mannysided tall on the ball Last Line: Let me call you sister, sister, %I been waiting for you Subject(s): Sisters; Women TO MISS AURELIA C---R; ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, fair aurelia, cease to mourn Last Line: "you'll find your sister in his arms." Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY DEAREST SISTER EMELINE (PASSED HENCE, JULY 17, 1892), by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister-spirit, given to me Last Line: For thou art heaven, since thou art love! Subject(s): Sisters TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is a grief, the depth of which another Last Line: Shall glean beside! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The TO MY IMAGINARY SIBLINGS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother and sister Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Imagination; Fancy TO MY OLDER SISTER ON HER DEPARTURE TO YUE, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: You came last year from changxi Last Line: And spring's wind shall fill the river's trees Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters TO MY SECOND SISTER, by LOUISE CONNER Poem Text First Line: From you I learned the beauty of these things Last Line: I stand to meet the future, head unbowed. Subject(s): Sisters TO MY SISTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These books you find three weeks Last Line: "ere we be young again." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birthdays; Sisters; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) TO MY SISTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the first mild day of march Last Line: We'll give to idleness. Variant Title(s): A Change In The Year;lines (written At A Small Distance From My House) Subject(s): March (month); Sisters; Spring; Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) TO MY SISTER ANNE KING, WHP CHID ME IN VERSE FOR BEING ANGRY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear nan, I would not have thy counsel lost Last Line: Thou'lt rhyme me back again into my wits. Subject(s): Anger; Sisters TO MY SISTER MARY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister, accept these lays; as yet I ween Last Line: My sister's name is on a shamed thing! Subject(s): Sisters TO MY SISTER, WITH A COPY OF SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister! While the wise and sage Last Line: For the sweet bells of morning! Subject(s): New England; Sisters; Supernatural TO ROSE, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sister, between us lie Last Line: It takes to heal your heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Homecoming; Sisters TO THE CORNFLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How smiling, how wondering, the cornflower's eyes Last Line: For you live right down here with me, and not so high and far. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Sisters; Summer; Joy; Delight TO TWO SISTERS; A WANDERER'S FAREWELL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know, to esteem, to love, - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye, of all the world beside. Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting TOAST, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: The sisters huddle together in the youngest one's Last Line: And is busy at the moment forgetting even their names Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Emptiness; Sisters; Toasts 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 TRIOLET AGAINST SISTERS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters are always drying their hair Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Sisters TRIOLET AGAINST SISTERS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters are always drying their hair Last Line: Locked into rooms, alone Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Sisters TWO SISTERS; BIRTHDAY VERSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must I welcome in the day Last Line: Though writ another way. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Birthdays; Sisters UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sister mary cairnith lit the lamps Last Line: None needing suck, my daughter's (heart?) stops Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters UPON TWO SISTERS, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Believe 't, young man, I can as eas'ly tell Last Line: Next him is he that sees them both together. Subject(s): Sisters VIOLIN SONGS: TO MY SISTER, ON HER TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old fables are not all a lie Last Line: The father at thy heart. Subject(s): God; Piety; Sisters WE BUILT MOUNTAIN PADDIES, by KINASHI NO KARU Poem Source Last Line: Like the tangle when reeds are cut - %when we two have slept Subject(s): Incest; Sisters WEAVER, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Women of thread %women of silks and yarns Last Line: Grown tangled %grown convoluted within Subject(s): Sisters; Weavers And Weaving WHITE BIRCHES, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Pale birches always make me think Last Line: Or can it not be told? Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Theology WILD ROSES AND MYRRH, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie ocean rolled away Last Line: To line the manger bed. Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Women; Theology 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 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 YOU WANT ME WHITE, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source Last Line: Pretend I'm snowy, %pretend I'm chaste Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Sisters |
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