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    1914 and Other Poems
    1914 and Other Poems
    1914 and Other Poems
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    1914 and Other Poems

    By Rupert Brooke

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateDec 1, 1994
    1914 and Other Poems

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      1914 and Other Poems - Rupert Brooke

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of 1914 and Other Poems, by Rupert Brooke

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      Title: 1914 and Other Poems

      Author: Rupert Brooke

      Release Date: October 29, 2010 [EBook #33902]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1914 AND OTHER POEMS ***

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      1914

      AND OTHER POEMS

      BY RUPERT BROOKE

      LONDON

      SIDGWICK & JACKSON LIMITED

      3 ADAM STREET ADELPHI W.C.

      1915

      Copyright 1915 by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.

      All rights reserved

      PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS

      WEST NORWOOD

      LONDON

      By the same Author

      POEMS

      (Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.)

      First edition, 1911

      Reprinted 1913

      May 1915 (twice)

      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.

      1914

      I. PEACE

      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,

      Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,

      Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,

      And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,

      And all the little emptiness of love!

      Oh! we,

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