Soldier
Author: first_name: Rupert
last_name: Brooke
Language: English
Year: 1914

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of <em>The Soldier</em> by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to a battle at Gallipoli.<BR /><BR />This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 8th, 2009.