# The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir

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Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke:
With a Memoir
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.
3 Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C. 1918
First ImpressionJuly 1918
Second ImpressionAugust 1918
All rights reserved
Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
Contents
| | PAGE |
| Memoir | xi |
POEMS 1911-1914
1914
| I. Peace | 5 |
| II. Safety | 6 |
| III. The Dead | 7 |
| IV. The Dead | 8 |
| V. The Soldier | 9 |
| The Treasure | 10 |
THE SOUTH SEAS
| Tiare Tahiti | 13 |
| Retrospect | 16 |
| The Great Lover | 18 |
| Heaven | 21 |
| Doubts | 23 |
| There's Wisdom in Women | 24 |
| He wonders whether to praise or to blame her | 25 |
| A Memory | 26 |
| One Day | 27 |
| Waikiki | 28 |
| Hauntings | 29 |
| Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research) | 30 |
| Clouds | 31 |
| Mutability | 32 |
OTHER POEMS
| The Busy Heart | 35 |
| Love | 36 |
| Unfortunate | 37 |
| The Chilterns | 38 |
| Home | 40 |
| The Night Journey | 41 |
| Song | 43 |
| Beauty and Beauty | 44 |
| The Way that Lovers use | 45 |
| Mary and Gabriel | 46 |
| The Funeral of Youth | 49 |
GRANTCHESTER
| The Old Vicarage, Grantchester | 53 |
POEMS 1905-1911
1908—1911
| Sonnet: "Oh! Death will find me" | 63 |
| Sonnet: "I said I splendidly loved you" | 64 |
| Success | 65 |
| Dust | 66 |
| Kindliness | 68 |
| Mummia | 70 |
| The Fish | 72 |
| Thoughts on the shape of the Human Body | 75 |
| Flight | 77 |
| The Hill | 79 |
| The One before the Last | 80 |
| The Jolly Company | 82 |
| The Life Beyond | 83 |
| Lines written in the Belief that the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead was called Ambarvalia | 84 |
| Dead Men's Love | 88 |
| Town and Country | 89 |
| Paralysis | 91 |
| Menelaus and Helen | 92 |
| Lust | 94 |
| Jealousy | 95 |
| Blue Evening | 97 |
| The Charm | 99 |
| Finding | 100 |
| Song | 102 |
| The Voice | 103 |
| Dining-Room Tea | 105 |
| The Goddess in the Wood | 108 |
| A Channel Passage | 109 |
| Victory | 110 |
| Day and Night | 111 |
EXPERIMENTS
| Choriambics—I. | 115 |
| Choriambics—II. | 117 |
| Desertion | 119 |
1905-1908
| Second Best | 123 |
| Day that I have Loved | 125 |
| Sleeping Out: Full Moon | 127 |
| In Examination | 129 |
| Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening | 130 |
| Wagner | 131 |
| The Vision of the Archangels | 132 |
| Seaside | 133 |
| On the Death of Smet-Smet | 134 |
| The Song of the Pilgrims | 136 |
| The Song of the Beasts | 138 |
| Failure | 140 |
| Ante Aram | 141 |
| Dawn | 142 |
| The Call | 143 |
| The Wayfarers | 145 |
| The Beginning | 146 |
APPENDIX
| "I strayed about the deck, an hour, to-night" | 149 |
| The Dance | 150 |
| Song | 151 |
| "Sometimes even now I may" | 152 |
| Sonnet in Time of Revolt | 153 |
| A Letter to a Live Poet | 154 |
| Fragment on Painters | 156 |
| The True Beatitude | 157 |
| Sonnet Reversed | 158 |
| The Little Dog's Day | 159 |
Introduction
I feel that an apology is due to those who have been looking for some time for a Memoir of my son. The chief reason for the delay has been my great desire to gain the collaboration of some of his contemporaries at Cambridge and during his young manhood, for I believe strongly that they knew the largest part of him. Up to now it has been found impossible to do this, much as I should have wished it; and as since his death many of them have also laid down their lives, there is no longer any hope of doing so in the future. I have therefore consented to the Memoir coming out now, although it is of necessity incomplete. I cannot speak strongly enough of the ability and loving care that Mr Marsh has given to the work.
M. R. B.
April 1918
Note
This memoir was written in August 1915, a few months after Rupert Brooke's death, and my intention was to publish it with his collected poems in the course of that year. Circumstances prevented this, and now that three years have passed I ought probably to rewrite it in the changed perspective and on a different scale. As this is impossible for several reasons, I have had to be contented with a general revision, and the addition of letters which have since come into my hands.
I am very grateful to his Mother and to those of his friends who have allowed me to quote from his letters and from their accounts of him.
E. M.
April 1918.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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