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The term "b day poems for brother" has been searched for 34 times on the American Poems site since June 20th, 2007.
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1. Kin - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1913.
Read 2440 times on American Poems.
BROTHER, I am fire
Surging under the ocean floor.
I shall never meet you, brother--
Not for years, anyhow;
Maybe thousands of years, brother.
Then I will warm you,
Hold you close, wrap you in circles,
Use you and change you--
Maybe thousands of... (Read full poem)
2. Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1654 times on American Poems.
Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru --
Empty the Hearts that purchased you --
--
Sister of Ophir --
Ah, Peru --
Subtle the Sum
That purchase you --
--
Brother of Ophir
Bright Adieu,
Honor, the shortest route
To you.(Read full poem)
3. Drinking While Driving - written by Raymond Carver
Read 16318 times on American Poems.
It's August and I have not
Read a book in six months
except something called The Retreat from Moscow
by Caulaincourt
Nevertheless, I am happy
Riding in a car with my brother
and drinking from a pint of Old Crow.
We do not have any place in... (Read full poem)
4. "What says the sea, little shell?" - written by Stephen Crane
From War is Kind & Other Lines.
Published in 1899.
Read 5094 times on American Poems.
"What says the sea, little shell?
What says the sea?
Long has our brother been silent to us,
Kept his message for the ships,
Awkward ships, stupid ships."
"The sea bids you mourn, O Pines,
Sing low in the moonlight.
He sends tale of the... (Read full poem)
5. What Work Is - written by Philip Levine
Read 3552 times on American Poems.
We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is--if you're
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you. This is about waiting,
shifting from one foot to... (Read full poem)
6. Dream Song 59: Henry's Meditation in the Kremlin - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 601 times on American Poems.
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda
in a land no crueller, and over the walls
to domes & river look
from Great John's belfry, Ivan-Veliky,
whose thirty-one are still
to hail who storms no father's throne. Bell, book
& cradle rule,... (Read full poem)
7. Cotton Song - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1769 times on American Poems.
Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
come now, hewit! roll away!
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
But lets not wait for it.
God's body's got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll,... (Read full poem)
8. There is another sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 186941 times on American Poems.
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where... (Read full poem)
9. Suzanne - written by William Carlos Williams
From The Clouds.
Published in 1948.
Read 2924 times on American Poems.
Brother Paul! look!
—but he rushes to a different
window.
The moon!
I heard shrieks and thought:
What's that?
That's just Suzanne
talking to the moon!
Pounding on the window
with both fists:
Paul! Paul!
—and talking to the... (Read full poem)
10. The Water's Chant - written by Philip Levine
Read 543 times on American Poems.
Seven years ago I went into
the High Sierras stunned by the desire
to die. For hours I stared into a clear
mountain stream that fell down
over speckled rocks, and then I
closed my eyes and prayed that when
I opened them I would be gone
and... (Read full poem)
11. There is a word - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 28348 times on American Poems.
There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man --
It hurls its barbed syllables
And is mute again --
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted Brother
Gave his breath away.
Wherever runs the breathless sun... (Read full poem)
12. To You. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 5582 times on American Poems.
LET us twain walk aside from the rest;
Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,
Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story,
Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband,... (Read full poem)
13. Wild Grapes - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 7512 times on American Poems.
What tree may not the fig be gathered from?
The grape may not be gathered from the birch?
It's all you know the grape, or know the birch.
As a girl gathered from the birch myself
Equally with my weight in grapes, one autumn,
I ought to know... (Read full poem)
14. Iron - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 2759 times on American Poems.
GUNS,
Long, steel guns,
Pointed from the war ships
In the name of the war god.
Straight, shining, polished guns,
Clambered over with jackies in white blouses,
Glory of tan faces, tousled hair, white teeth,
Laughing lithe jackies in white... (Read full poem)
15. To E.T. - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 6944 times on American Poems.
I slumbered with your poems on my breast
Spread open as I dropped them half-read through
Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb
To see, if in a dream they brought of you,
I might not have the chance I missed in life
Through some delay, and... (Read full poem)
16. No Brigadier throughout the Year - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1039 times on American Poems.
No Brigadier throughout the Year
So civic as the Jay --
A Neighbor and a Warrior too
With shrill felicity
Pursuing Winds that censure us
A February Day,
The Brother of the Universe
Was never blown away --
The Snow and he are intimate --
I've often... (Read full poem)
17. Think of the Soul. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3247 times on American Poems.
THINK of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to live in other
spheres;
I do not know how, but I know it is so.
Think of loving and being loved;
I swear to you, whoever you are, you can interfuse... (Read full poem)
18. You Can Have It - written by Philip Levine
Read 4708 times on American Poems.
My brother comes home from work
and climbs the stairs to our room.
I can hear the bed groan and his shoes drop
one by one. You can have it, he says.
The moonlight streams in the window
and his unshaven face is whitened
like the face of the... (Read full poem)
19. The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1947 times on American Poems.
1
The children of the Czar
Played with a bouncing ball
In the May morning, in the Czar's garden,
Tossing it back and forth.
It fell among the flowerbeds
Or fled to the north gate.
A daylight moon hung up
In the Western sky, bald... (Read full poem)
20. On the Mystery of the Incarnation - written by Denise Levertov
Read 868 times on American Poems.
It's when we face for a moment
the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know
the taint in our own selves, that awe
cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart:
not to a flower, not to a dolphin,
to no innocent form
but to this creature... (Read full poem)
21. I stood upon a high place, - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 7115 times on American Poems.
I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping,
and carousing in sin.
One looked up, grinning,
And said, "Comrade! Brother!"(Read full poem)
22. A Tall Man - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1770 times on American Poems.
THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth.
The head of this man is a gaunt strong head.
The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains, the Appalachians.
The eyes of this man are chlorine of two sobbing oceans,
Foam, salt, green, wind,... (Read full poem)
23. Other - written by Robert Creeley
Read 1253 times on American Poems.
Having begun in thought there
in that factual embodied wonder
what was lost in the emptied lovers
patience and mind I first felt there
wondered again and again what for
myself so meager and finally singular
despite all issued therefrom... (Read full poem)
24. Among the Multitude. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3008 times on American Poems.
AMONG the men and women, the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I
am;
Some are baffled—But that one is... (Read full poem)
25. St. Francis of Assisi - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 649 times on American Poems.
Would I might wake St. Francis in you all,
Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour,
Blinded with weeping for the sad and poor;
Our wealth undone, all strict Franciscan men,
Come, let us chant the canticle again
Of mother earth and... (Read full poem)
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