Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 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 [Illustration: Rupert Brooke 1913] _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. _May 1915_ E. M. 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