Download 1914 And Other Poems by the "handsomest young man in England," Rupert Brooke.
Brooke wrote these poems in the autumn following the outbreak of World War I. Although The Solider is the most famous of these poems, Brooke's favorite was The Dead (IV). The Soldier's fame and popularity was established three weeks before Brooke's death in April 1915, when the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral read it at the Easter Sunday service. The Treasure was the first poem Brooke wrote after August 1914, and it acts as a preface to the five war sonnets.
“Love is a flame; - we have beaconed the world's night.
A city: - and we have built it, these and I.
An emperor: - we have taught the world to die.”
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