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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

The Busy Heart

The Busy Heart
Now that we’ve done our best and worst, and parted,
I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend.
(O heart, I do not dare go empt…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Success

Success
I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,
And found my wild sick blasphemous prayer granted,

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Sonnet: I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true

Sonnet: I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true
I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true.
Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea.
On g…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Sonnet: Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire

Sonnet: Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and l…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Sonnet

Sonnet
(Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research)
Not with vain tears, when we’re beyond the sun,
We’ll beat on the s…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Sonnet Reversed

Sonnet Reversed
Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights
Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights.
Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon!

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Song

Song
"Oh! Love," they said, "is King of Kings,
And Triumph is his crown.
Earth fades in flame before his wings,
And Sun and Moon bow down." --

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Song of the Pilgrims, The

Song of the Pilgrims, The
(Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.)
What light of unremembered skies
Hast thou…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Seaside

Seaside
Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band,
The crowd's good laughter, the loved eyes of men,
I am drawn nightward; I must turn again

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Sleeping Out: Full Moon

Sleeping Out: Full Moon
They sleep within. . . .
I cower to the earth, I waking, I only.
High and cold thou dreamest, O queen, high-dreaming and lonely. …

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Retrospect

Retrospect
In your arms was still delight,
Quiet as a street at night;
And thoughts of you, I do remember,
Were green leaves in a darkened chambe…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Pine-Trees And The Sky: Evening

Pine-Trees And The Sky: Evening
I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky,
And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover,
And heard the waves, and th…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Paralysis

Paralysis
For moveless limbs no pity I crave,
That never were swift! Still all I prize,
Laughter and thought and friends, I have;
No fool to heav…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

One Before the Last, The

One Before the Last, The
I dreamt I was in love again
With the One Before the Last,
And smiled to greet the pleasant pain
Of that innocent young …

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

On The Death Of Smet-Smet, The Hippopotamus- Goddess

On The Death Of Smet-Smet, The Hippopotamus- Goddess
Song of a tribe of the ancient Egyptians
(The Priests within the Temple)
She was wrinkled and huge a…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire

Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and lonelines…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Night Journey, The

Night Journey, The
Hands and lit faces eddy to a line;
The dazed last minutes click; the clamour dies.
Beyond the great-swung arc o' the roof, divine,

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Mummia

Mummia
As those of old drank mummia
To fire their limbs of lead,
Making dead kings from Africa
Stand pandar to their bed;
Drunk on the de…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Mary and Gabriel

Mary and Gabriel
Young Mary, loitering once her garden way,
Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day,
As wine that blushes water through. And soon,

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Lines Written In The Belief That The Ancient Roman Festival Of The Dead Was

Lines Written In The Belief That The Ancient Roman Festival Of The Dead Was
Called Ambarvalia
Swings the way still by hollow and hill,
And all the world'…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Jolly Company, The

Jolly Company, The
The stars, a jolly company,
I envied, straying late and lonely;
And cried upon their revelry:
"O white companionship! You only…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Libido

Libido
How should I know? The enormous wheels of will
Drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet.
Night was void arms and you a phantom still,

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

IV. The Dead

IV. The Dead
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.
The years had given them kindness. Dawn wa…

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

III. The Dead

III. The Dead
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. <…

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