1914 and other poems

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​1914 & other Poems

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By the same Author
POEMS
(Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.)

First edition, 1911
Reprinted 1913
May 1915 (twice)

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1914 & other Poems

By Rupert Brooke

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited
3 Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C. 1915

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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.

May 1915

E. M.

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CONTENTS   1914		PAGE
I.	Peace	11
II.	Safety	12
III.	The Dead	13
IV.	The Dead	14
V.	The Soldier	15
	The Treasure	16
THE SOUTH SEAS
	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
OTHER POEMS
	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
	The Old Vicarage, Grantchester	59

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.