Poems 1905-1908

Second Best

Day that I Have Loved

Sleeping Out: Full Moon

In Examination

Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening

Wagner

The Vision of the Archangels

Seaside

On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess

The Song of the Pilgrims

The Song of the Beasts

Failure

Ante Aram

Dawn

The Call

The Wayfarers

The Beginning

Poems 1905-1908

These are the poems written by Rupert Brooke in his last year at Rugby, and his first two years at King's College Cambridge, before he moved to Grantchester.

They show the start of his development as a poet, advised by an older friend, St John Wells Lucas.