At the end of 1913, Brooke travelled through North America to New Zealand, and the South Seas. In early 1915, he settled for a few months at Mataiea on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, where much of the happiness he had lost at the end of 1911 returned to him. He lived an open-air life with his Tahitian lover, Taatamaata, the Mamua of Tiare Tahiti.

Brooke produced some of his best poetry in this period, of which Tiare Tahiti is probably the most widely known and loved.