Who is Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".

Early life

Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, and named after a great-grandfather on his mother's side, Rupert Chawner (1750–1836), a distinguished doctor descended from the regicide Thomas Chaloner (the middle name has however sometimes been erroneously given as "Chaucer"). He was the third of four children of William Parker "Willie" Brooke, a schoolmaster (teacher), and Ruth Mary Brooke, née Cotterill, a ...
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Rupert Brooke Poems

• The Dance (a Song)
  As the Wind, and as the Wind,
  In a corner of the way,
  Goes stepping, stands twirling,
  Invisibly, comes whirling, ...
• Retrospect (the South Seas)
  In your arms was still delight,
  Quiet as a street at night;
  And thoughts of you, I do remember,
  Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, ...
• Tiare Tahiti (the South Seas)
  Mamua, when our laughter ends,
  And hearts and bodies, brown as white,
  Are dust about the doors of friends,
  Or scent ablowing down the night, ...
• On The Death Of Smet-smet, The Hippopotamus-goddess - Song Of A Tribe Of The Ancient Egyptians
  (The Priests within the Temple)
  She was wrinkled and huge and hideous? She was our Mother.
  She was lustful and lewd? but a God; we had none other.
  In the day She was hidden and dumb, but at nightfall moaned in the shade; ...
• It's Not Going To Happen Again
  I have known the most dear that is granted us here,
  More supreme than the gods know above,
  Like a star I was hurled through the sweet of the world,
  And the height and the light of it, Love. ...

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Rupert Brooke Quotes

• A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
• A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

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