1914
Reading edition
AND OTHER POEMS
BY RUPERT BROOKE
LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON LIMITED 3 ADAM STREET ADELPHI W.C. 1915
Copyright 1915 by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. All rights reserved PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD LONDON
By the same Author POEMS
(Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.) First edition, 1911 Reprinted 1913 May 1915 (twice)
RUPERT BROOKE
Born at Rugby, August 3, 1887 Fellow of King's, 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
These poems have appeared in New Numbers, the old Poetry Review, Poetry and Drama, Rhythm, The Blue Review, The New Statesman, The Pall Mall Magazine, and Basileon. Acknowledgements are due to the Editors who have allowed them to be reprinted.
The Author had thought of publishing a volume of poems this spring, but he did not prepare the present book for publication.
May 1915 E. M.
CONTENTS
1914 PAGE
I. Peace 11
II. Safety 12
III. The Dead 13
IV. The Dead 14
V. The Soldier 15
The Treasure 16
THE SOUTH SEAS
Tiare Tahiti 19
Retrospect 22
The Great Lover 24
Heaven 27
Doubts 29
There's Wisdom in Women 30
He wonders whether to praise or to blame her 31
A Memory 32
One Day 33
Waikiki 34
Hauntings 35
Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research) 36
Clouds 37
Mutability 38
OTHER POEMS
The Busy Heart 41
Love 42
Unfortunate 43
The Chilterns 44
Home 46
The Night Journey 47
Song 49
Beauty and Beauty 50
The Way that Lovers use 51
Mary and Gabriel 52
The Funeral of Youth 55
GRANTCHESTER
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester 59