(1887-1915 / Warwickshire / England)

poet Rupert Brooke
#55 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''He leaves a white
    Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance,
    A width, a shining peace, under the night.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. 1914 (l. 26-28). . . Poetry Anthology, The, 1912-1977. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi, eds. (1978) Houghton Mifflin Company.
    50 person liked.
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  • ''But only agony, and that has ending;
    And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. 1914 (l. 13-14). . . Poetry Anthology, The, 1912-1977. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi, eds. (1978) Houghton Mifflin Company.
    33 person liked.
    		41 person did not like.
  • ''Down the blue night the unending columns press
    In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Clouds (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
    27 person liked.
    		35 person did not like.
  • ''Mud unto mud!—Death eddies near—
    Not here the appointed End, not here!
    But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
    Is wetter water, slimier slime!''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven (l. 15-18). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.
    20 person liked.
    		42 person did not like.
  • ''Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
    Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven (l. 1-2). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.
    2 person liked.
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  • ''But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
    Is wetter water, slimier slime!
    And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
    Who swam ere rivers were begun,
    Immense, of fishy form and mind,
    Squamous, omnipotent, and kind.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven, 1914 and Other Poems (1915).
    2 person liked.
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  • ''Infinite hungers leap no more
    In the chance swaying of your dress;
    And love has changed to kindliness.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Kindliness.
    2 person liked.
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  • ''Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Letters from America, ch. 3 (1916).
    6 person liked.
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  • ''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.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. New Numbers, no. 4 (1914). Peace, 1914 and Other Poems (1915).
    5 person liked.
    		2 person did not like.
  • ''Oh! death will find me long before I tire
    Of watching you.''
    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Sonnet, Collected Poems (1966).
    10 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.

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Sonnet Reversed

Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights
Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights.

Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon!
Soon they returned, and, after strange adventures,
Settled at Balham by the end of June.
Their money was in Can. Pacs. B. Debentures,
And in Antofagastas. Still he went
Cityward daily; still she did abide

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