1914 & other Poems
By the same Author
POEMS
(Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.)
- First edition, 1911
- Reprinted 1913
- May 1915 (twice)
1914 & other Poems
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited
3 Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C. 1915
First Edition, May 1915
Second and Third Impressions, June 1915
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Impressions, July 1915
Seventh Impression, August 1915
Eighth Impression, September 1915
Ninth Impression, October 1915
Tenth Impression, November 1915
Copyright 1915 by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.
All rights reserved
PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS
WEST NORWOOD
LONDON
RUPERT BROOKE
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
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.
CONTENTS
| 1914 | PAGE |
| I. Peace | 11 |
| II. Safety | 12 |
| III. The Dead | 13 |
| IV. The Dead | 14 |
| V. The Soldier | 15 |
| The Treasure | 16 |
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| Tiare Tahiti | 19 |
| Retrospect | 22 |
| The Great Lover | 24 |
| Heaven | 27 |
| Doubts | 29 |
| There's Wisdom in Women | 30 |
| He wonders whether to praise or to blame her | 31 |
| A Memory | 32 |
| One Day | 33 |
| Waikiki | 34 |
| Hauntings | 35 |
| Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research) | 36 |
| Clouds | 37 |
| Mutability | 38 |
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| The Busy Heart | 41 |
| Love | 42 |
| Unfortunate | 43 |
| The Chilterns | 44 |
| Home | 46 |
| The Night Journey | 47 |
| Song | 49 |
| Beauty and Beauty | 50 |
| The Way that Lovers Use | 51 |
| Mary and Gabriel | 52 |
| The Funeral of Youth | 55 |
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| The Old Vicarage, Grantchester | 59 |