Rupert Brooke

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

"There was a damned successful Poet;     There was a Woman like the Sun.     And they were dead. They did not know it.     They did not know the"

"In darkness the loud sea makes moan;     And earth is shaken, and all evils creep     About her ways.     Oh, now to know you sleep!     Out o"

"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 em"

"All in the town were still asleep,     When the sun came up with a shout and a leap.     In the lonely streets unseen by man,     A little dog"

"Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,     Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)     Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,     Each secret fishy hope or"

"Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper,     Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies,     Incense of dirges, prayers that"

"How can we find? how can we rest? how can     We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man?     We, the gaunt zanies of a witless Fate,     Who"

"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 agai"

"I have been so great a lover: filled my days     So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise,     The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,"

"Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,     Where that comes in that shall not go again;     Love sells the proud heart's citadel to Fate."

"When the white flame in us is gone,     And we that lost the world's delight     Stiffen in darkness, left alone     To crumble in our separate"

"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 grant"

"(Sung, on one night, in the cities, in the darkness.)     Come away! Come away!     Ye are sober and dull through the common day,     But no"

"Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void, lost in the haunted wood,     I have tended and loved, year upon year, I in the solitude"

"When I see you, who were so wise and cool,     Gazing with silly sickness on that fool     You've given your love to, your adoring hands     To"

"I have known the most dear that is granted us here,     More supreme than the gods know above,     Like a star I was hurled through the sweet of"

"They sleep within. . . .     I cower to the earth, I waking, I only.     High and cold thou dreamest, O queen, high-dreaming and lonely.     W"

"As the Wind, and as the Wind,     In a corner of the way,     Goes stepping, stands twirling,     Invisibly, comes whirling,     Bows before,"

"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"

"Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place     Made fair by one another for a while.     Now, for a god-speed, one last mad embrace;     The l"

"Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side     Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall.     In every touch more intimate meanings"

"They say when the Great Prompter's hand shall ring     Down the last curtain upon earth and sea,     All the Good Mimes will have eternity"

"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"

"There is an evil which that Race attaints     Who represent God's World with oily paints,     Who mock the Universe, so rare and sweet,     Wit"

"Because God put His adamantine fate     Between my sullen heart and its desire,     I swore that I would burst the Iron Gate,     Rise up, and"

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

"Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,     Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.     You said, "Through glory and ecstasy we pass"

"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"

"I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky,     And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover,     And heard the waves, and the seagull's moc"

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

"Here in the dark, O heart;     Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,     And Silence, and the warm strange smell of clover;     Clear-visio"

"Ah! not now, when desire burns, and the wind calls, and the suns of spring     Light-foot dance in the woods, whisper of life, woo me to wayfarin"

"I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true.     Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea.     On gods or fools the high risk falls, on"

"Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap     That's tossed down dusty pavements by the wind;     Saying, "She is most wise, patient and kind."

"Lo! from quiet skies     In through the window my Lord the Sun!     And my eyes     Were dazzled and drunk with the misty gold,     The golden"

"All night the ways of Heaven were desolate,     Long roads across a gleaming empty sky.     Outcast and doomed and driven, you and I,     Alone"

"He wakes, who never thought to wake again,     Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes     Slowly, to one long livid oozing plain     Closed"

"(The Priests within the Temple)     She was wrinkled and huge and hideous? She was our Mother.     She was lustful and lewd? but a God; we had n"