Quote

Spend in pure converse our eternal day Think each in each, immediately wise Learn all we lacked before hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies And feel, who have laid our groping hands away And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

Rupert Brooke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
Poet
Rugby
Warwickshire
Rupert Chawner Brooke
Rupert Chaucer Brooke
Feel
Wise
Laid
Feels
Hear
Immediately
Tumultuous
Think
Eyes
Deny
Groping
Thinking
Eye
Spend
Lacked
Learn
Eternal
Converse
Away
Pure
Converses
Hands
Growth
Denies
Body
Longer
Blinded

More quotes by Rupert Brooke

Image
Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!
Rupert Brooke
Image
All the little emptiness of love!
Rupert Brooke
Image
Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!
Rupert Brooke
Image
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.
Rupert Brooke
Image
.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
Rupert Brooke
Image
There's little comfort in the wise
Rupert Brooke
Image
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.
Rupert Brooke
Image
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.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
Rupert Brooke
Image
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
Rupert Brooke
Image
But only agony, and that has ending And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
Rupert Brooke
Image
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.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! 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.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
Rupert Brooke
Image
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.
Rupert Brooke
Image
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour Safe though all safety's lost safe where men fall And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.
Rupert Brooke
Image
Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.
Rupert Brooke