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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: brooke, rupert Matches Found: 100 Brooke, Rupert Poet's Biography 100 poems available by this author 1914: 1. PEACE Poem Text First Line: Now god be thanked who has matched us with his hour Last Line: And the worst friend and enemy is but death. Variant Title(s): Peace Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 1914: 2. SAFETY Poem Text First Line: Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest Last Line: And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War 1914: 3. THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! Last Line: And we have come into our heritage. Variant Title(s): Gifts Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Liberty 1914: 4. THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares Last Line: A width, a shining peace, under the night. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War A CHANNEL PASSAGE Poem Text First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly. Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean A MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Last Line: Waikiki, october 1913 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ANTE ARAM Poem Text First Line: Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper Last Line: Or the soft moan of any grey-eyed lute-player. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BEAUTY AND BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: When beauty and beauty meet Last Line: After -- after -- Subject(s): Beauty; Soldiers' Writings BLUE EVENING Poem Text First Line: My restless blood now lies a-quiver Last Line: "and ""hush!"" she said, between the boughs." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHORIAMBICS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Ah! Not now, when desire burns, and the wind calls, and the Last Line: Bending over me, last light in the dark, once, as of old, your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHORIAMBICS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void, lost in the Last Line: Shrine therein. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: Down the blue night the unending columns press Last Line: The pacific, october 1913 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers' Writings DANCE First Line: As the wind, and as the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAWN Poem Text First Line: Opposite me two germans sweat and snore Last Line: Opposite me two germans sweat and snore. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAY AND NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Through my heart's palace thoughts unnumbered throng Last Line: You, like a queen, pass out into the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAY THAT I HAVE LOVED Poem Text First Line: Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes Last Line: Day that I loved, day that I loved, the night is here! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEAD MEN'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: There was a damned successful poet Last Line: The emptiness of eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEAR, THEY HAVE POACHED THE EYES YOU LOVED SO WELL First Line: The limbs that erstwhile charmed your sight Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DESERTION Poem Text First Line: So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone Last Line: Gay down the way, and on alo Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Soldiers' Writings DINING-ROOM TEA Poem Text First Line: When you were there, and you, and you Last Line: When you were there, and you, and you. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Soldiers' Writings; Tea DOUBTS Poem Text First Line: When she sleeps, her soul, I know Last Line: Why is fragrance in the hair? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DUST Poem Text First Line: When the white flame in us is gone Last Line: One moment, what it is to love. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAFAIA First Line: Stars that seem so close and bright Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAILURE Poem Text First Line: Because god put his adamantine fate Last Line: And st+irred the heavy curtains on the walls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FINDING Poem Text First Line: From the candles and dumb shadows Last Line: And a white dream of you. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Voices out of the shade that cried Last Line: And stroked my face. I fell asleep. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight Last Line: To other ghosts - this one, or that, or I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRAGMENT ON PAINTERS First Line: There is an evil which that race attaints Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HAUNTINGS Poem Text First Line: In the grey tumult of these after yearse Last Line: The pacific, 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HE WONDERS WHETHER TO PRAISE OR TO BLAME HER Poem Text First Line: I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over Last Line: For, foul or lovely, 'twas a fool that loved you. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers HOME Poem Text First Line: I came back late and tired last night Last Line: All night I could not sleep. Subject(s): Home; Soldiers' Writings IN EXAMINATION Poem Text First Line: Lo! From quiet skies Last Line: Still scribbling, blear-eyed and stolid immortals. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN FREIBURG STATION Poem Text First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN First Line: I have known the most dear that is granted us here Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: When I see you, who were so wise and cool Last Line: -- oh, when that time comes, you'll be dirty too! Subject(s): Jealousy; Soldiers' Writings KINDLINESS Poem Text First Line: When love has changed to kindliness Last Line: And love has changed to kindliness. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LETTER TO A LIVE POET First Line: Sir, since the last elizabethan died Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LIBIDO Poem Text First Line: How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Last Line: Quieter than a dead man on a bed. Subject(s): Desire; Soldiers' Writings LINES WRITTEN IN BELIEF THAT THE ANCIENT ROMAN FESTIVAL OF DEAD WAS CALLED AMBARVALIA Poem Text First Line: Swings the way still by hollow and hill LITTLE DOG'S DAY First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate Last Line: All this is love; and all love is but this. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MARY AND GABRIEL Poem Text First Line: Young mary, loitering once her garden way Last Line: The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MENELAUS AND HELEN Poem Text First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War MUMMIA Poem Text First Line: As those of old drank mummia Last Line: Love, that our love be this! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MUTABILITY Poem Text First Line: They say there's a high windless world and strange Last Line: South kensington -- makaweli, 1913 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings O THOU, GOD OF ALL Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings ON THE DEATH OF SMET-SMET, THE HIPPOTAMUS-GODDESS Poem Text First Line: She was wrinkled and huge and hideous? She was our mother Last Line: Now god is dying? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ONE DAY Poem Text First Line: Today I have been happy. All the day Last Line: Plays hourned to a little bitter mould. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PARALYSIS Poem Text First Line: For moveless limbs no pity I crave Last Line: To you alone with your hills and heaven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING Poem Text First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky! Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation RETROSPECT Poem Text First Line: In your arms was still delight Last Line: Mataiea, january 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands SEASIDE Poem Text First Line: Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band Last Line: And dies between the seawemple) Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SECOND BEST Poem Text First Line: Here in the dark, o heart Last Line: O heart, in the great dawn! Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology SLEEPING OUT: FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: They sleep within Last Line: Of light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOMETIMES EVEN NOW I MAY Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG Poem Text First Line: Oh love,' they said, 'is king of kings' Last Line: Love would be merely you. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings SONG Poem Text First Line: All suddenly the wind comes soft Last Line: And my heart puts forth its pain. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings SONG First Line: The way of love was thus Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET Poem Text First Line: I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true Last Line: And do not love at all. Of these am I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET Poem Text First Line: Oh! Death will find me Last Line: Amusedly, among the ancient dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET Poem Text First Line: Oh! Death will find me Last Line: Amusedly, among the ancient dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET REVERSED Poem Text First Line: Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Last Line: And henry, a stock-broker, doing well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: IN TIME OF REVOLT First Line: The thing must end. I am no boy! I am Last Line: This too avuncular officiousness, %intolerable consanguinity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET; SUGGESTED BY SOME OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETY PHYSICAL RESEARCH Poem Text First Line: Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun SUCCESS Poem Text First Line: I think if you had loved me when I wanted Last Line: And I'm alone; and you have not awoken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE BEGINNING Poem Text First Line: Some day I shall rise and leave my friends Last Line: -- and my heart is sick with memories. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE BUSY HEART Poem Text First Line: Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted Last Line: I have need to busy my heart with quietude. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CALL Poem Text First Line: Out of the nothingness of sleep Last Line: The dust of the dead gods, alone. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CHARM Poem Text First Line: In darkness the loud sea makes moan Last Line: And holiness upon the deep. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CHILTERNS Poem Text First Line: Your hands, my dear, adorable Last Line: And I daresay she will do. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE FISH Poem Text First Line: In a cool curving world he lies Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY Poem Text First Line: The day that youth had died Last Line: All, except only love. Love had died long ago. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE GODDESS IN THE WOOD Poem Text First Line: In a flowered dell the lady venus stood Last Line: And the immortal eyes to look on death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE GREAT LOVER Poem Text First Line: I have been so great a lover: filled my days Last Line: "praise you, ""all these were lovely""; say, ""he loved." Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; War THE HILL Poem Text First Line: Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill Last Line: -- and then you suddenly cried, and turned away. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Soldiers' Writings THE JOLLY COMPANY Poem Text First Line: The stars, a jolly company Last Line: Star to faint star, across the sky. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE LIFE BEYOND Poem Text First Line: He wakes, who never thought to wake again Last Line: It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE LITTLE DOG'S DAY Poem Text First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE NIGHT JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Hands and lit faces eddy to a line Last Line: The lamps fade; and the stars. We are alone. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER Poem Text First Line: Just now the lilac is in bloom Last Line: And is there honey still for tea? Subject(s): England; Grantchester, England; Soldiers' Writings; English THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I was in love again Last Line: You ever hurt abit! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE SONG OF THE BEASTS Poem Text First Line: Come away! Come away Last Line: To the black unresting plains of the calling sea. Subject(s): Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS Poem Text First Line: What light of unremembered skies Last Line: Among the forests of the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE TREASURE Poem Text First Line: When colour goes home into the eyes Last Line: When children sleep, ere night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE TRUE BEATITUDE Poem Text First Line: They say, when the great prompter's hand shall ring Subject(s): God; Peace THE VISION OF THE ARCHANGELS Poem Text First Line: Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world Last Line: With sorrowful quiet faces downward to the plain. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE VOICE Poem Text First Line: Safe in the magic of my woods Last Line: By god! I wish -- I wish that you were dead! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE WAY THAT LOVERS USE Poem Text First Line: The way that lovers use is this Last Line: -- so lovers say. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE WAYFARERS Poem Text First Line: Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place Last Line: Into the waste we know not, into the night? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THERE'S WISDOM IN WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Oh love is fair, and love is rare'; my dear one she said Last Line: Have cried on love so bitterly, with so true a tongue? Subject(s): Women; Soldiers' Writings THOUGHTS ON THE SHAPE OF THE HUMAN BODY Poem Text First Line: How can we find? How can we rest? How can Last Line: Patiently ever, through the eternal night! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TIARE TAHITI Poem Text First Line: Mamua, when our laughter ends Last Line: Papeete, february 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Tahiti TOWN AND COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Last Line: And dumb and mad and eyeless like the sky. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TRUE BEAUTITUDE First Line: They say, when the great prompter's hand shall ring Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings UNFORTUNATE Poem Text First Line: Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap Last Line: Kinder than god. But, heart, she will not care. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VICTORY Poem Text First Line: All night the ways of heaven were desolate Last Line: Thundered the black battalions of the gods. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Creeps in half wanton, half asleep Last Line: His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking. Subject(s): Composers; Soldiers' Writings; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WAIKIKI Poem Text First Line: Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Last Line: Waikiki, 1913 Subject(s): Hawaii; Soldiers' Writings |
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