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Famous Brotherly Love Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Brotherly Love poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous brotherly love poems. These examples illustrate what a famous brotherly love poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Burns, Robert
...this dear mansion, may wayward Contention
 Or witherèd Envy ne’er enter;
May secrecy round be the mystical bound,
 And brotherly Love be the centre!...Read more of this...



by Watts, Isaac
...Brotherly love.

Lo! what an entertaining sight
Are brethren that agree!
Brethren, whose cheerful hearts unite
In bands of piety!

When streams of love from Christ the spring
Descend to every soul,
And heav'nly peace, with balmy wing,
Shades and bedews the whole;

'Tis like the oil, divinely sweet,
On Aaron's reverend head
The trickling drops perfumed hi...Read more of this...

by Field, Edward
...t soft heart of his had hardened
and he really was a monster now.

He was out to pay them back,
to throw the lie of brotherly love
in their white Christian teeth.

Wasn't his flesh human flesh
even made from the bodies of criminals,
the worst the Baron could find?

But love is not necessarily implicit in human flesh:
Their hatred was now his hatred,

so he set out on his new career
his previous one being the victim,
the good man who suffers.

Now no longer the hun...Read more of this...

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