Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke...
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“My night shall be remembered for a star That outshone all the suns of all men's days”
“For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.”
“Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.”
“Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?”
“Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.”
“But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
“.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!”
“Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow”
“Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.”
“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.”
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”
“The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.”
“Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”
“I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.”
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.”
“And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.”
“I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.”
“I have need to busy my heart with quietude.”