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The term "x: am i my brothers keeper" has been searched for 51 times on the American Poems site since June 2nd, 2007.
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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 1000 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. Prayers After World War - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3059 times on American Poems.
WANDERING oversea dreamer,
Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother,
Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood,
Child of the hair let down, and tears,
Child of the cross in the south
And the star in the north,
Keeper of Egypt and Russia and... (Read full poem)
4. Willie Pennington - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 467 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)
5. 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. Rev. Abner Peet - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 326 times on American Poems.
I had no objection at all
To selling my household effects at auction
On the village square.
It gave my beloved flock the chance
To get something which had belonged to me
For a memorial.
But that trunk which was struck off
To Burchard, the... (Read full poem)
7. He was my host -- he was my guest, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1937 times on American Poems.
He was my host -- he was my guest,
I never to this day
If I invited him could tell,
Or he invited me.
So infinite our intercourse
So intimate, indeed,
Analysis as capsule seemed
To keeper of the seed.(Read full poem)
9. Given in Marriage unto Thee - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2566 times on American Poems.
Given in Marriage unto Thee
Oh thou Celestial Host --
Bride of the Father and the Son
Bride of the Holy Ghost.
Other Betrothal shall dissolve --
Wedlock of Will, decay --
Only the Keeper of this Ring
Conquer Mortality --(Read full poem)
10. Nancy Knapp - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 577 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)
11. 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 642 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)
12. Country Fair - written by Charles Simic
From Hotel Insomnia.
Published in 1992.
Read 973 times on American Poems.
for Hayden Carruth
If you didn't see the six-legged dog,
It doesn't matter.
We did, and he mostly lay in the corner.
As for the extra legs,
One got used to them quickly
And thought of other things.
Like, what a cold, dark night
To be out at the... (Read full poem)
13. A Rhyme of Death's Inn - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Read 2045 times on American Poems.
A rhyme of good Death's inn!
My love came to that door;
And she had need of many things,
The way had been so sore.
My love she lifted up her head,
"And is there room?" said she;
"There was no room in Bethlehem's inn
For... (Read full poem)
14. Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1827 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)
15. Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2320 times on American Poems.
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard!
Was the Leopard -- bold?
Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin --
Ethiop -- her Gold --
Tawny -- her Customs --
She was Conscious --
Spotted -- her Dun Gown --
This was the Leopard's nature -- Signor --
Need -- a... (Read full poem)
16. Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2772 times on American Poems.
I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . .
When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me. . . .
I am food on the... (Read full poem)
17. In a Breath - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3452 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)
18. Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2571 times on American Poems.
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness --
Blush, my unacknowledged clay --
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood... (Read full poem)
19. To the Etruscan Poets - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 1279 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)
20. Anna Imroth - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 1941 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)
21. Aprons of Silence - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1584 times on American Poems.
MANY things I might have said today.
And I kept my mouth shut.
So many times I was asked
To come and say the same things
Everybody was saying, no end
To the yes-yes, yes-yes, me-too, me-too.
The aprons of silence covered me.
A wire and hatch held... (Read full poem)
22. harriet - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1186 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)
23. The Mad Yak - written by Gregory Corso
Read 1717 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)
24. 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)
25. The World - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2510 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)
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