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Rupert Brooke

1887–1915

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) was an English poet, born at Rugby and educated at King’s College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow. He was a leading figure among the Georgian poets, and travelled in America and the South Seas in 1913–1914.

He joined the Royal Naval Division in 1914 and wrote the sonnet sequence 1914, which includes “The Soldier.” He died of blood poisoning aboard a French hospital ship off the Greek island of Skyros on 23 April 1915, on his way to Gallipoli, and was buried there.

Poems (94)

  1. Peace
  2. Safety
  3. The Dead (I)
  4. The Dead (II)
  5. The Soldier
  6. The Treasure
  7. Tiare Tahiti
  8. Retrospect
  9. The Great Lover
  10. Heaven
  11. Waikiki
  12. Hauntings
  13. Clouds
  14. Mutability
  15. The Busy Heart
  16. Love
  17. The Chilterns
  18. The Night Journey
  19. Beauty and Beauty
  20. The Way That Lovers Use
  21. Mary and Gabriel
  22. The Funeral of Youth: Threnody
  23. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
  24. Sonnet Reversed
  25. The Fish
  26. Dust
  27. The Hill
  28. Day That I Have Loved
  29. Wagner
  30. Success
  31. Kindliness
  32. The Jolly Company
  33. Victory
  34. A Channel Passage
  35. Failure
  36. Town and Country
  37. Dining-room Tea
  38. The One Before the Last
  39. Second Best
  40. Sleeping Out: Full Moon
  41. In Examination
  42. Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening
  43. The Vision of the Archangels
  44. Seaside
  45. On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess
  46. The Song of the Pilgrims
  47. The Song of the Beasts
  48. Ante Aram
  49. Dawn
  50. The Call
  51. The Wayfarers
  52. The Beginning
  53. Sonnet: "Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire"
  54. Sonnet: "I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true"
  55. Mummia
  56. Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body
  57. Flight
  58. The Life Beyond
  59. Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia
  60. Dead Men's Love
  61. Paralysis
  62. Menelaus and Helen
  63. Libido
  64. Jealousy
  65. Blue Evening
  66. The Charm
  67. Finding
  68. Song: "Oh! Love," they said, "is King of Kings"
  69. The Voice
  70. The Goddess in the Wood
  71. Day and Night
  72. Choriambics -- I
  73. Choriambics -- II
  74. Desertion
  75. Doubts
  76. There's Wisdom in Women
  77. He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her
  78. A Memory (From a sonnet-sequence)
  79. One Day
  80. Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research)
  81. Unfortunate
  82. Home
  83. Song: All suddenly the wind comes soft
  84. Fafaia
  85. Fragment
  86. The Dance
  87. Song: The way of love was thus
  88. Sometimes Even Now . . .
  89. Sonnet: in Time of Revolt
  90. A Letter to a Live Poet
  91. Fragment on Painters
  92. The True Beatitude (Bouts-Rimes)
  93. It's Not Going to Happen Again
  94. The Little Dog's Day

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