Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brookewas an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 August 1887
death men wind
But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.
good-friend good-friendship conversation
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
funny book reading
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
land heaven wish
And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
sleep kissing males
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
lonely memorial-day military
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
death long admiration
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
flower thinking bed
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.
nostalgia longing
.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
night clouds blue
Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
wall heart fate
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
passion slave worst
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
death loneliness swings
Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!
laughter autumn wind
I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.