Rupert Brooke

"My restless blood now lies a-quiver,     Knowing that always, exquisitely,     This April twilight on the river     Stirs anguish in the heart"

"Today I have been happy. All the day     I held the memory of you, and wove     Its laughter with the dancing light o' the spray,     And sowed"

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

"Sometimes even now I may     Steal a prisoner's holiday,     Slip, when all is worst, the bands,     Hurry back, and duck beneath     Time's o"

"Mamua, when our laughter ends, And hearts and bodies, brown as white, Are dust about the doors of friends, Or scent ablowing down the night,"

"In the grey tumult of these after years     Oft silence falls; the incessant wranglers part;     And less-than-echoes of remembered tears     H"

"Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,     And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,     With hand made sure, clear eye"

"Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun,     We'll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread     Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dea"

"Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land! There, wait"

"If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a rich"

"I came back late and tired last night Into my little room, To the long chair and the firelight And comfortable gloom. But as I entered softly in I sa"

"(From a sonnet-sequence) Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Softly along the dim way to your room, And found you sleeping in the quiet gloo"

"Just now the lilac is in bloom,     All before my little room;     And in my flower-beds, I think,     Smile the carnation and the pink;     A"

"I     Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke     To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate     On that adulterous whore a ten years' hate     And"

"Creeps in half wanton, half asleep,     One with a fat wide hairless face.     He likes love-music that is cheap;     Likes women in a crowded"

"Down the blue night the unending columns press     In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,     Now tread the far South, or lift rounds of"

""Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said,     "But love goes lightly over." I bowed her foolish head,     And kissed her hair a"

"In a cool curving world he lies     And ripples with dark ecstasies.     The kind luxurious lapse and steal     Shapes all his universe to feel"

"If I should die, think only this of me:     That there's some corner of a foreign field     That is for ever England. There shall be     In tha"

"The way that lovers use is this;     They bow, catch hands, with never a word,     And their lips meet, and they do kiss,         So I have hea"

"Out of the nothingness of sleep,     The slow dreams of Eternity,     There was a thunder on the deep:     I came, because you called to me."

"When she sleeps, her soul, I know,     Goes a wanderer on the air,     Wings where I may never go,     Leaves her lying, still and fair,     W"

"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,"

"So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone,     And the way was laid so certainly, that, when I'd gone,     What dumb thing looked"

"Sir, since the last Elizabethan died,     Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse,     Blind with much light, passed to the light more glorious"

"(From the train between Bologna and Milan, second class.)     Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat.     Through sullen swirling gloom we jo"

"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 sti"

"The Thing must End. I am no boy! I am     No BOY! I being twenty-one. Uncle, you make     A great mistake, a very great mistake,     In chiding"

"Stars that seem so close and bright,     Watched by lovers through the night,     Swim in emptiness, men say,     Many a mile and year away."

"When colour goes home into the eyes,     And lights that shine are shut again     With dancing girls and sweet birds' cries     Behind the gate"

"Safe in the magic of my woods     I lay, and watched the dying light.     Faint in the pale high solitudes,     And washed with rain and veiled"

"Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world,     Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky,     Bearing, with quiet even ste"

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

"I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over,     But if to praise or blame you, cannot say.     For, who decries the loved, decries the lo"

"Your hands, my dear, adorable,     Your lips of tenderness     Oh, I've loved you faithfully and well,     Three years, or a bit less.     It"

"When love has changed to kindliness,     Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press     So tight that Time's an old god's dream     Nodding in heave"

"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"

"When you were there, and you, and you,     Happiness crowned the night; I too,     Laughing and looking, one of all,     I watched the quiverin"

"Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire     Of watching you; and swing me suddenly     Into the shade and loneliness and mire     Of the las"

"Swings the way still by hollow and hill,     And all the world's a song;     "She's far," it sings me, "but fair," it rings me,     "Quiet," it"

"Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,     And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.     The grey veils of the hal"

"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 cha"

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

"The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick     My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew     I must think hard of something, o"

"Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest     He who has found our hid security,     Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest,     And"

"In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood,     Amazed with sorrow. Down the morning one     Far golden horn in the gold of trees and sun     Rang"

""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 dow"

"Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng;     And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise,     High-throned you sit, and gracio"

"These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,     Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.     The years had given them kindness. Daw"

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

"When Beauty and Beauty meet     All naked, fair to fair,     The earth is crying-sweet,     And scattering-bright the air,     Eddying, dizzyi"

"From the candles and dumb shadows,     And the house where love had died,     I stole to the vast moonlight     And the whispering life outside"

"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"

"Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept     Softly along the dim way to your room,     And found you sleeping in the quiet gloom,     And h"

"Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree     Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes     Somewhere an 'eukaleli' thrills and c"

"Voices out of the shade that cried,     And long noon in the hot calm places,     And children's play by the wayside,     And country eyes, and"

"The day that YOUTH had died,     There came to his grave-side,     In decent mourning, from the country's ends,     Those scatter'd friends"

"They say there's a high windless world and strange,     Out of the wash of days and temporal tide,     Where Faith and Good, Wisdom and Truth ab"

"I strayed about the deck, an hour, to-night     Under a cloudy moonless sky; and peeped     In at the windows, watched my friends at table,"

"Some day I shall rise and leave my friends     And seek you again through the world's far ends,     You whom I found so fair     (Touch of your"