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Rupert Brooke's Poetry, by title

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  • 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
  • A Letter To A Live Poet
    Sir, since the last Elizabethan died,
        Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse,
    51 lines
  • A Memory (From A Sonnet- Sequence)
    Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept
    Softly along the dim way to your room,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • And Love Has Changed To Kindliness
    When love has changed to kindliness,
        Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press
    35 lines, 1 comment
  • Ante Aram
    Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper,
    Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies,
    19 lines
  • Beauty and Beauty
    When Beauty and Beauty meet
    All naked, fair to fair,
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • Blue Evening
    My restless blood now lies a-quiver,
    Knowing that always, exquisitely,
    33 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
  • Clouds
    Down the blue night the unending columns press
    In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,
    14 lines
  • Dawn
    Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat.
    Through sullen swirling gloom we jolt and roar.
    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
  • 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
  • Dead Men's Love
    There was a damned successful Poet;
    There was a Woman like the Sun.
    25 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
  • Dining-Room Tea
    When you were there, and you, and you,
    Happiness crowned the night; I too,
    74 lines, 1 comment
  • Doubts
    When she sleeps, her soul, I know,
    Goes a wanderer on the air,
    18 lines
  • Dust
    When the white flame in us is gone,
    And we that lost the world's delight
    44 lines, 8 comments
  • Fafaia
    Stars that seem so close and bright,
    Watched by lovers through the night,
    15 lines
  • Failure
    Because God put His adamantine fate
    Between my sullen heart and its desire,
    14 lines
  • Finding
    From the candles and dumb shadows,
    And the house where love had died,
    42 lines
  • Flight
    Voices out of the shade that cried,
    And long noon in the hot calm places,
    41 lines
  • Fragment
    I strayed about the deck, an hour, to-night
    Under a cloudy moonless sky; and peeped
    19 lines
  • Fragment On Painters
    There is an evil which that Race attaints
    Who represent God’s World with oily paints,
    9 lines
  • Hauntings
    In the grey tumult of these after years
    Oft silence falls; the incessant wranglers part;
    14 lines
  • He Wonders Whether To Praise Or To Blame Her
    I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over,
    But if to praise or blame you, cannot say.
    14 lines
  • Heaven
    Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
    Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
    34 lines
  • Home
    I came back late and tired last night
    Into my little room,
    24 lines, 3 comments
  • In Examination
    Lo! from quiet skies
    In through the window my Lord the Sun!
    26 lines
  • In Time of Revolt
    The Thing must End. I am no boy! I am
    No boy! I being twenty-one. Uncle, you make
    16 lines
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