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<h1>1914</h1> <h2>AND OTHER POEMS</h2> <h2>BY RUPERT BROOKE</h2>   <h3>LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON LIMITED 3 ADAM STREET ADELPHI W.C. 1915</h3> <hr class="large" /> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i003.jpg" width-obs="366" height-obs="500" alt="" title="" /></div> <hr class="large" /> Copyright 1915 by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. All rights reserved PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD LONDON <hr class="large" /> <div class="poem">By the same Author POEMS</div> <div class="poem">(Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.) First edition, 1911 Reprinted 1913 May 1915 (twice)</div> <hr class="large" /> <div class="poem">RUPERT BROOKE</div> <div class="poem">Born at Rugby, August 3, 1887 Fellow of King's, 1913 Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., September 1914 Antwerp Expedition, October 1914 Sailed with British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, February 28, 1915 Died in the Ægean, April 23, 1915</div> <hr class="large" /> These poems have appeared in New Numbers, the old Poetry Review, Poetry and Drama, Rhythm, The Blue Review, The New Statesman, The Pall Mall Magazine, and Basileon. Acknowledgements are due to the Editors who have allowed them to be reprinted. The Author had thought of publishing a volume of poems this spring, but he did not prepare the present book for publication. <div class="centered"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" summary="EDITORSSIGNATURE"> <tr><td align="left">May 1915</td> <td align="right">E. M.</td></tr> </table></div> <hr class="large" /> <div class="centered"> <table border="0" width="70%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" summary="CONTENTS"> <tr><td align="left">CONTENTS</td> <td align="right"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left">1914</td> <td align="right">PAGE</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">I. Peace</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">II. Safety</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">III. The Dead</td> <td align="right">13</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">IV. The Dead</td> <td align="right">14</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">V. The Soldier</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Treasure</td> <td align="right">16</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">THE SOUTH SEAS</td> <td align="right"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Tiare Tahiti</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Retrospect</td> <td align="right">22</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Great Lover</td> <td align="right">24</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Heaven</td> <td align="right">27</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Doubts</td> <td align="right">29</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">There's Wisdom in Women</td> <td align="right">30</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">He wonders whether to praise or to blame her</td> <td align="right">31</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">A Memory</td> <td align="right">32</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">One Day</td> <td align="right">33</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Waikiki</td> <td align="right">34</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Hauntings</td> <td align="right">35</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research)</td> <td align="right">36</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Clouds</td> <td align="right">37</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Mutability</td> <td align="right">38</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">OTHER POEMS</td> <td align="right"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Busy Heart</td> <td align="right">41</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Love</td> <td align="right">42</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Unfortunate</td> <td align="right">43</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Chilterns</td> <td align="right">44</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Home</td> <td align="right">46</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Night Journey</td> <td align="right">47</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Song</td> <td align="right">49</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Beauty and Beauty</td> <td align="right">50</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Way that Lovers use</td> <td align="right">51</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Mary and Gabriel</td> <td align="right">52</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Funeral of Youth</td> <td align="right">55</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">GRANTCHESTER</td> <td align="right"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left">The Old Vicarage, Grantchester</td> <td align="right">59</td></tr> </table></div> <hr class="large" /> <h2>1914</h2> [Pg 11] <div class="poem">I. PEACE</div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! </div> <div class="stanza"> Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending, Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. </div> </div> <hr class="large" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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