Rupert Brooke
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.Collection: Valentines
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.Collection: Romantic
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.Collection: Cool
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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.
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.Collection: Writing
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.Collection: Army
Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.Collection: Beauty
Youth is stranger than fiction.Collection: Fiction
I have need to busy my heart with quietude.Collection: Heart
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.Collection: Life
I have a thousand images of you in an hour; all different and all coming back to the same. I think of you once against a sky line: and on the hill that Sunday morning. The light and the shadow and quietness and the rain and the wood. And you. Your arms and lips and hair and shoulders and voice - you.Collection: Morning
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.Collection: Passion
But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.Collection: Wisdom
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.Collection: Wise
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.Collection: Friendship
Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.Collection: Heart
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.Collection: Eye
All the little emptiness of love!Collection: Love
And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fishCollection: Land
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.Collection: Wise
There's little comfort in the wiseCollection: Wise
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.Collection: Fun
Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.Collection: Country
And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.Collection: Love
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.Collection: Wall
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.Collection: Lonely
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!Collection: Death
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.Collection: Rivers
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.Collection: Life
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?Collection: Heaven
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?Collection: Tea
Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.Collection: Night
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.Collection: Love
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.Collection: Smile