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Album of manuscript poems, 1907 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB/V/2

Scope and Contents

A group of poems, including some fragmentary jottings, formerly comprising the leaves of a notebook. These were taken down, arranged and mounted by Edward Marsh. The contents the volume are as follows:
[f.5] Front cover of notebook, signed by Rupert Brooke
[ff.10-11] DINING-ROOM TEA 'When you were there, and you, and you ...'
[ff.28-9] [KINDLINESS] 'When love has changed to kindliness ...' 2 incomplete drafts
[f.32] [A CHANNEL PASSAGE] 'The damned ship lurched and slithered ...'
[f.38] [THE CHARM] 'In the darkness the loud sea makes moan ...'
[f.46] PARALYSIS 'For moveless limbs no pity I crave ...'
[f.49] FLIGHT also titled 'The Tracker' and 'Pursuit' 'Voices out of the shade that cried ...'
[f.50] THE GODDESS IN THE WOOD 'In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood ...'
[f.52] [SONNET] 'O! Death will find me, long before I tire ...'
[f.54] [FINDING] 'From the candles and dumb shadows ...'
[ff.56-9] [LINES WRITTEN IN THE BELIEF THAT THE ANCIENT ROMAN FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD WAS CALLED AMBARVALIA] 'Swings the road still by hollow and hill ...'
[f.72] [WAGNER] 'Creeps in half wanton, half asleep ...'
[f.78] [THE HILL] 'Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill ...'
[f.79] [SUCCESS] 'I think if you had loved me when I wanted ...'
[f.80] [SONNET] 'I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true ...'
[ff.102-3] [THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST] 'I dreamt I was in love again ...'
[ff.104-6] THE FISH 'In a cool curving world he lies ...'
[f.107] [SONG] here titled 'Love' '"Oh Love" they said "is King of Kings ...'
[ff.109-10] THE LIFE BEYOND 'He wakes, who never thought to wake again ...'
[f.113] MUMMIA 'As those of old drank Mummia ...'
[f.118] JEALOUSLY 'When I see you, who were so wise and cool ...'
[f.122] [SONG] 'Oh! that apple bloom, and the pale spring sun ...'
[f.129] IN FREIBERG STATION 'In Freiburg Station, waiting for a train ...'
[f.135] THE DESCENT 'Because you called, I left the mountain height ...'
[f.145] SONNET REVERSED 'Hand trembling towards hand ...'
[f.146] Back cover of notebook.

























Dates

  • Creation: 1907 - 1912

Creator

Extent

1 volume(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This item is the property of King's College, Cambridge.

Bibliography

Further details are given in Geoffrey Keynes, 'A Bibliography of Rupert Brooke' (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964), pp.126-7.

Date information

DateText: Dates have been estimated.

Finding aid date

1999-07-24 14:02:24+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge Repository

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