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    Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
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    Selected Poems

    By Rupert Brooke

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    Rupert Brooke (1887-1905) was an English lyricist celebrated for his romantic war sonnets. Contents: Day that I have Loved, On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess, Second Best, The Hill, Sonnet ("Oh! Death will find me"), Dust, Song, Kindliness, The Voice and many more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMar 16, 2020
    ISBN4064066096397
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      Selected Poems - Rupert Brooke

      Rupert Brooke

      Selected Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2020

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066096397

      Table of Contents

      Day that I have Loved

      On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess

      Second Best

      The Hill

      Sonnet

      Dust

      Song

      Kindliness

      The Voice

      Menelaus and Helen

      The Jolly Company

      Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body

      Town and Country

      The Fish

      Dining-room Tea

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      Day that I have Loved

      Table of Contents

      Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,

      And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.

      The grey veils of the half-light deepen; colour dies.

      I bear you, a light burden, to the shrouded sands,

      Where lies your waiting boat, by wreaths of the sea's making

      Mist-garlanded, with all grey weeds of the water crowned.

      There you'll be laid, past fear of sleep or hope of waking;

      And over the unmoving sea, without a sound,

      Faint hands will row you outward, out beyond our sight,

      Us with stretched arms and empty eyes on the far-gleaming

      And marble sand. …

      Beyond the shifting cold twilight,

      Further than laughter goes, or tears, further than dreaming,

      There'll be no port, no dawn-lit islands! But the drear

      Waste darkening, and, at length, flame ultimate on the deep.

      Oh, the last fire—and you, unkissed, unfriended there!

      Oh, the lone way's red ending, and we not there to weep!

      (We found you pale and quiet, and strangely crowned with flowers,

      Lovely and secret as a child. You came with us,

      Came happily, hand in hand with the young dancing hours,

      High on the downs at dawn!) Void now and tenebrous,

      The grey sands curve before me. …

      From the inland meadows,

      Fragrant of June and clover, floats the dark and

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