# The Collected poems of Rupert Brooke

See also: 1914 and other poems (1915). Additional poems and 'fragments' not included in this edition can be found in the 1918 'Memoir' edition which contains a Memoir by Brooke's executor and friend Edward Marsh and a brief introduction by the father of Rupert Brooke. Note: The poem entitled "Libido" in this edition is entitled "Lust" in the 1918 edition.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE
RUPERT BROOKE
Born at Rugby, August 3, 1887 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 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
COPYRIGHT 1914, HUTCHINSON, CHICAGO
1914
THE
COLLECTED POEMS
OF
RUPERT BROOKE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
AND A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
BY MARGARET LAVINGTON
New York
JOHN LANE COMPANY
MCMXV
Copyright, 1915, by JOHN LANE COMPANY
SEVENTH THOUSAND
CONTENTS
| Introduction (not included in original ToC) | v |
1905—1908
| Second Best | 21 |
| Day That I Have Loved | 23 |
| Sleeping Out: Full Moon | 25 |
| In Examination | 27 |
| Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening | 28 |
| Wagner | 29 |
| The Vision of the Archangels | 30 |
| Seaside | 31 |
| On the Death of Smet-Smet | 32 |
| The Song of the Pilgrims | 34 |
| The Song of the Beasts | 36 |
| Failure | 38 |
| Ante Aram | 39 |
| Dawn | 40 |
| The Call | 41 |
| The Wayfarers | 43 |
| The Beginning | 44 |
1908—1911
| Sonnet: | |
| "Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire" | 47 |
| Sonnet: | |
| "I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true" | 48 |
| Success | 49 |
| Dust | 50 |
| Kindliness | 52 |
| Mummia | 54 |
| The Fish | 56 |
| Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body | 59 |
| Flight | 61 |
| The Hill | 63 |
| The One Before the Last | 64 |
| The Jolly Company | 66 |
| The Life Beyond | 67 |
| Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia | 68 |
| Dead Men's Love | 72 |
| Town and Country | 73 |
| Paralysis | 75 |
| Menelaus and Helen | 76 |
| Libido | 78 |
| Jealousy | 79 |
| Blue Evening | 81 |
| The Charm | 83 |
| Finding | 85 |
| Song | 87 |
| The Voice | 88 |
| Dining-Room Tea | 90 |
| The Goddess in the Wood | 93 |
| A Channel Passage | 94 |
| Victory | 95 |
| Day and Night | 96 |
EXPERIMENTS
| Choriambics—I | 99 |
| Choriambics—II | 101 |
| Desertion | 103 |
1914
| I. Peace | 107 |
| II. Safety | 108 |
| III. The Dead | 109 |
| IV. The Dead | 110 |
| V. The Soldier | 111 |
| The Treasure | 112 |
THE SOUTH SEAS
| Tiare Tahiti | 115 |
| Retrospect | 118 |
| The Great Lover | 120 |
| Heaven | 123 |
| Doubts | 125 |
| There's Wisdom in Women | 126 |
| He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her | 127 |
| A Memory | 128 |
| One Day | 129 |
| Waikiki | 130 |
| Hauntings | 131 |
| Sonnet (suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research) | 132 |
| Clouds | 133 |
| Mutability | 134 |
OTHER POEMS
| The Busy Heart | 137 |
| Love | 138 |
| Unfortunate | 139 |
| The Chilterns | 140 |
| Home | 142 |
| The Night Journey | 143 |
| Song | 145 |
| Beauty and Beauty | 146 |
| The Way That Lovers Use | 147 |
| Mary and Gabriel | 148 |
| The Funeral of Youth: Threnody | 151 |
GRANTCHESTER
| The Old Vicarage, Grantchester | 155 |
| Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note (not included in original ToC) | 161 |