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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BROTHERS Matches Found: 260 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE TWA BRETHREN [OR, TWIN BROTHERS] (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 sheridanwithout 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 |
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