Poems by Rupert Brooke
Success
... One last shame's spared me, one black word's unspoken ...
II. Safety
... We have built a house that is not for Time's throwing ...
Clouds
... I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, ...
Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour
... And all the little emptiness of love!Oh! we who have known shame, we have found release there, ...
Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body
... how can We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man ...
Failure
... and beat Thrice on the Gate, and entered with a cry --All the great courts were quiet in the sun, ...
Finding
... And suddenly I found you white and radiant, ...
1914 I: Peace
... And all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, ...
The Song of the Pilgrims
... (Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees ...
Funeral Of Youth, The: Threnody
... Who had to catch a train, and LUST, poor, snivelling boy ...
A Letter to a Live Poet
... We heard -- With rapturous breath half-held, as a dreamer dreams ...
Menelaus and Helen
... Menelaus bold Waxed garrulous, and sacked a hundred Troys ...
1914 III: The Dead
... Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, ...
I. Peace
... And all the little emptiness of love!Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, ...
Love
... Even then, When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking, ...
