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.
| 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 |
