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Rupert Brooke's Poetry, by first line

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  • Second Best
    Here in the dark, O heart;
    Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,
    39 lines
  • Failure
    Because God put His adamantine fate
    Between my sullen heart and its desire,
    14 lines
  • Ante Aram
    Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper,
    Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies,
    19 lines
  • The Wayfarers
    Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place
    Made fair by one another for a while.
    14 lines
  • The Beginning
    Some day I shall rise and leave my friends
    And seek you again through the world's far ends,
    20 lines
  • Day That I Have Loved
    Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,
    And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.
    30 lines
  • Success
    I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
    If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,
    14 lines
  • Dust
    When the white flame in us is gone,
    And we that lost the world's delight
    44 lines, 8 comments
  • The Fish
    In a cool curving world he lies
    And ripples with dark ecstasies.
    77 lines
  • Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body
    How can we find? how can we rest? how can
    We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man?
    30 lines
  • The Jolly Company
    The stars, a jolly company,
    I envied, straying late and lonely;
    18 lines
  • Sleeping Out: Full Moon
    They sleep within. . . .
    I cower to the earth, I waking, I only.
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • The Life Beyond
    He wakes, who never thought to wake again,
    Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Dead Men's Love
    There was a damned successful Poet;
    There was a Woman like the Sun.
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • Paralysis
    For moveless limbs no pity I crave,
    That never were swift! Still all I prize,
    26 lines
  • Libido
    How should I know? The enormous wheels of will
    Drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet.
    14 lines
  • Jealousy
    When I see you, who were so wise and cool,
    Gazing with silly sickness on that fool
    37 lines
  • Blue Evening
    My restless blood now lies a-quiver,
    Knowing that always, exquisitely,
    33 lines
  • In Examination
    Lo! from quiet skies
    In through the window my Lord the Sun!
    26 lines
  • Finding
    From the candles and dumb shadows,
    And the house where love had died,
    42 lines
  • The Voice
    Safe in the magic of my woods
    I lay, and watched the dying light.
    37 lines, 1 comment
  • The Goddess In The Wood
    In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood,
    Amazed with sorrow. Down the morning one
    14 lines
  • A Channel Passage
    The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick
    My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Victory
    All night the ways of Heaven were desolate,
    Long roads across a gleaming empty sky.
    14 lines
  • Day And Night
    Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng;
    And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise,
    15 lines
  • Choriambics -- I
    Ah! not now, when desire burns, and the wind calls, and the suns of spring
    Light-foot dance in the woods, whisper of life, woo me to wayfaring;
    19 lines
  • Choriambics -- II
    Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void,
    lost in the haunted wood,
    23 lines
  • Pine-Trees And The Sky: Evening
    I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky,
    And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Desertion
    So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone,
    And the way was laid so certainly, that, when I'd gone,
    20 lines
  • The War Sonnets: IV The Dead
    These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
    Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.
    14 lines, 2 comments
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