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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-07 12:37 am

Potential Titles: Brother

Go to my brother's grave and find a well - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Because the birds, my brothers, have asked - Etel Adnan "Night"

Brother of larks and leaves - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

My brother's unfamiliar ions vibrating - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"

Evil to her shall be her husband's brother - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring

No brother have I on earth but thee - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Than thy brother stars can show - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

A brother grown bigger by another name - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"

As they sung your brothers into the sea - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

A brother to the insensible rock - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

Brother to the owl and toad - Willa Cather "The Poor Minstrel"

Like his brother's haunting frown - Benjamin Copeland "Bethel"

Eroding words between brothers - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

The brother of the universe - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature LI: The Blue Jay"

The secret of his brother's heart - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

A brother's blood cries for vengeance - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

A jaded kind of lost brother - brian g. gilmore "ann arbor (alpha poem)"

The memories of hours where his brother had years - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

Blood brother to the snow angels - Bob Hicok "Grooming"

I have risked the chrysalis of my brother by telling you this - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Vast and mysterious brother - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother - H.W. Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"

Climbing the glass mountain to save her brothers - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

Or mingle with its brothers nine - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Finger"

Within this brother's solitary day - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"

Spiritual brother to the coral - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"

To tell foeman from brother - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"

Used to having a thousand brothers - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Brothers of coal and stone - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

Brother to the firefly - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

While the knife is the brother of man - Vesna Parun "Mother of Man" transl. by Mary Coote

Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"

And envy all your younger brothers - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"

Knowing force as a brother - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"

The shovel is brother to the gun - Carl Sandburg "Iron"

Gracious brother to the house - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"

Brother forest, sister river - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Our fashioning that will have no brother - A.E. Stallings "The Catch"

Sister shade and phantom brother - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

As an orphan calls his vanished brother - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

A brother's curse will find him - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

And give my rage a brother - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"


While linked in closest brotherhood, invincible - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Children of some banish'd brotherhood - Irving Sidney Dix "Fairies of the Frost"

With the steel of brotherhood - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

With your patchwork flag of brotherhood - Vachel Lindsay "Sew the Flags Together"


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