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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.
Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
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Warwickshire
Rupert Chawner Brooke
Rupert Chaucer Brooke
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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, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
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But only agony, and that has ending And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
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Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.
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Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
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Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
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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.
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These laid the world away poured out the red Sweet wine of youth gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress and love has changed to kindliness.
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