Brotherhood
Published in Poem Of The Day
Come, brothers all!
Shall we not wend
The blind-way of our prison-world
By sympathy entwined?
Shall we not make
The bleak way for each other's sake
Less rugged and unkind?
O let each throbbing heart repeat
The faint note of another's beat
To lift a chanson for the feet
That stumble down life's checkered street.
About this poem
"Brotherhood" was published in "Bronze: A Book of Verse" (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922).
About Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta on Sept. 10, 1880. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, her collections of poetry include "The Heart of a Woman" (1918) and "Share My World" (1962). She died on May 14, 1966.
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