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The term "poems on brothers" has been searched for 11873 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. The Wise Brothers - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 746 times on American Poems.
FIRST VOICE
So long adrift, so fast aground,
What foam and ruin have we found—
We, the Wise Brothers?
Could heaven and earth be framed amiss,
That we should land in fine like this—
We, and no others?
SECOND VOICE
Convoyed by... (Read full poem)
2. song at midnight - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 996 times on American Poems.
…do not send me out
among strangers
Sonia Sanchez
brothers,
this big woman
carries much sweetness
in the folds of her flesh.
her hair
is white with wonderful.
she is
rounder than the moon
and far more faithful.
brothers,
who will hold... (Read full poem)
3. Willie Pennington - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 466 times on American Poems.
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,
For my brothers were strong and beautiful,
While I, the last child of parents who had aged,
Inherited only their residue of power.
But they, my brothers, were eaten up
In the fury of the flesh, which... (Read full poem)
4. The Pilot - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 592 times on American Poems.
From the Past and Unavailing
Out of cloudland we are steering:
After groping, after fearing,
Into starlight we come trailing,
And we find the stars are true.
Still, O comrade, what of you?
You are gone, but we are sailing,
And the old... (Read full poem)
6. Nancy Knapp - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 576 times on American Poems.
Well, don't you see this was the way of it:
We bought the farm with what he inherited,
And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning
His fathers mind against the rest of them.
And we never had any peace with our treasure.
The murrain... (Read full poem)
7. Anna Imroth - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 1939 times on American Poems.
CROSS the hands over the breast here--so.
Straighten the legs a little more--so.
And call for the wagon to come and take her home.
Her mother will cry some and so will her sisters and
brothers.
But all of the others got down and they are safe... (Read full poem)
8. Dream Song 124: Behold I bring you tidings of great joy - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 640 times on American Poems.
Behold I bring you tidings of great joy—
especially now that the snow & gale are still—
for Henry is delivered.
Not only is he delivered from the gale
but he has a little one. He's out of jail
also. It is a boy.
Henry's... (Read full poem)
9. Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1825 times on American Poems.
THE POLICEMAN buys shoes slow and careful;
the teamster buys gloves slow and careful;
they take care of their feet and hands;
they live on their feet and hands.
The milkman never argues;
he works alone and no one speaks to him;
the city is... (Read full poem)
10. In a Breath - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3450 times on American Poems.
To the Williamson Brothers
HIGH noon. White sun flashes on the Michigan Avenue
asphalt. Drum of hoofs and whirr of motors.
Women trapsing along in flimsy clothes catching
play of sun-fire to their skin and eyes.
Inside the playhouse are movies... (Read full poem)
11. To the bright east she flies, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1400 times on American Poems.
To the bright east she flies,
Brothers of Paradise
Remit her home,
Without a change of wings,
Or Love's convenient things,
Enticed to come.
Fashioning what she is,
Fathoming what she was,
We deem we dream --
And that dissolves the days
Through... (Read full poem)
12. To the Etruscan Poets - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 1278 times on American Poems.
Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young
Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue,
In which pure matrix, joining world and mind,
You strove to leave some line of verse behind
Like still fresh tracks across a field of snow,
Not... (Read full poem)
13. harriet - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1182 times on American Poems.
harriet
if i be you
let me not forget
to be the pistol
pointed
to be the madwoman
at the rivers edge
warning
be free or die
and isabell
if i be you
let me in my
sojourning
not forget
to ask my brothers
ain't i a woman... (Read full poem)
14. The Mad Yak - written by Gregory Corso
Read 1716 times on American Poems.
I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get
from me.
They are waiting for me to die;
They want to make buttons out of my bones.
Where are my sisters and brothers?
That tall monk there, loading my uncle, he has a new cap.
And that idiot... (Read full poem)
15. Eating Together - written by Li-Young Lee
Read 2207 times on American Poems.
In the steamer is the trout
seasoned with slivers of ginger,
two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil.
We shall eat it with rice for lunch,
brothers, sister, my mother who will
taste the sweetest meat of the head,
holding it between her... (Read full poem)
16. The World - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2505 times on American Poems.
Some are the brothers of all humankind,
And own them, whatsoever their estate;
And some, for sorrow and self-scorn, are blind
With enmity for man's unguarded fate.
For some there is a music all day long
Like flutes in Paradise, they are... (Read full poem)
17. The Red Poppy - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1992.
Read 2684 times on American Poems.
The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a... (Read full poem)
18. Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1241 times on American Poems.
Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me --
How Kinsmen fell --
Brothers and Sister -- who preferred the Glory --
And their young will
Bent to the Scaffold, or in Dungeons -- chanted --
Till God's full time --
When they let go the ignominy --... (Read full poem)
19. On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show - written by Charles Bukowski
From The Roominghouse Madrigals.
Read 1116 times on American Poems.
they talk down through
the centuries to us,
and this we need more and more,
the statues and paintings
in midnight age
as we go along
holding dead hands.
and we would say
rather than delude the knowing:
a damn good show,
but hardly enough for a... (Read full poem)
20. On the Beach at Night. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 76562 times on American Poems.
1
ON the beach, at night,
Stands a child, with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower, sullen and fast, athwart and down the sky,... (Read full poem)
21. the lost baby poem - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 2799 times on American Poems.
the time i dropped your almost body down
down to meet the waters under the city
and run one with the sewage to the sea
what did i know about waters rushing back
what did i know about drowning
or being drowned
you would have been born in... (Read full poem)
22. Harvest Song - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1916 times on American Poems.
I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled.
But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
And I hunger.
I crack a grain between my teeth. I do not taste it.
I have been in the fields all day. My throat is... (Read full poem)
23. Lydia Humphrey - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 939 times on American Poems.
Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,
With my Bible under my arm
Till I was gray and old;
Unwedded, alone in the world,
Finding brothers and sisters in the congregation,
And children in the church.
I know they laughed and... (Read full poem)
24. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - written by Richard Brautigan
Published in 1950.
Read 3792 times on American Poems.
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammels and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled... (Read full poem)
25. Masks - written by Ezra Pound
Read 5567 times on American Poems.
These tales of old disguisings, are they not
Strange myths of souls that found themselves among
Unwonted folk that spake an hostile tongue,
Some soul from all the rest who'd not forgot
The star-span acres of a former lot
Where boundless mid... (Read full poem)
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