The Collected poems of Rupert Brooke

THE COLLECTED POEMS
OF RUPERT BROOKE

RUPERT BROOKE

Born at Rugby, August 3, 1887
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1913
Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., September, 1914
Antwerp Expedition. October, 1914
Sailed with British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, February 28, 1915
Died in the Ægean, April 23, 1915

1914

THE

COLLECTED POEMS

OF

RUPERT BROOKE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

AND A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

BY MARGARET LAVINGTON

New York

JOHN LANE COMPANY

MCMXV

Copyright, 1915, by
JOHN LANE COMPANY

SEVENTH THOUSAND

CONTENTS

Introduction (not included in original ToC)

v

1905—1908

Second Best	21
Day That I Have Loved	23
Sleeping Out: Full Moon	25
In Examination	27
Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening	28
Wagner	29
The Vision of the Archangels	30
Seaside	31
On the Death of Smet-Smet	32
The Song of the Pilgrims	34
The Song of the Beasts	36
Failure	38
Ante Aram	39
Dawn	40
The Call	41
The Wayfarers	43
The Beginning	44

1908—1911

Sonnet:
"Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire"	47
Sonnet:
"I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true"	48
Success	49
Dust	50
Kindliness	52
Mummia	54
The Fish	56
Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body	59
Flight	61
The Hill	63

The One Before the Last	64
The Jolly Company	66
The Life Beyond	67
Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia	68
Dead Men's Love	72
Town and Country	73
Paralysis	75
Menelaus and Helen	76
Libido	78
Jealousy	79
Blue Evening	81
The Charm	83
Finding	85
Song	87
The Voice	88
Dining-Room Tea	90
The Goddess in the Wood	93
A Channel Passage	94
Victory	95
Day and Night	96

EXPERIMENTS

Choriambics—I	99
Choriambics—II	101
Desertion	103

1914

I. Peace	107
II. Safety	108
III. The Dead	109
IV. The Dead	110
V. The Soldier	111
The Treasure	112

THE SOUTH SEAS

Tiare Tahiti	115
Retrospect	118
The Great Lover	120
Heaven	123
Doubts	125
There's Wisdom in Women	126
He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her	127
A Memory	128
One Day	129
Waikiki	130
Hauntings	131
Sonnet (suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research)	132
Clouds	133
Mutability	134

OTHER POEMS

The Busy Heart	137
Love	138
Unfortunate	139
The Chilterns	140
Home	142
The Night Journey	143
Song	145
Beauty and Beauty	146
The Way That Lovers Use	147
Mary and Gabriel	148
The Funeral of Youth: Threnody	151

GRANTCHESTER

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

155

Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note (not included in original ToC)

161