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Subject: BROTHERS & SISTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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


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 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


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


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