The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

Manuscript transcripts by Edward Marsh, [c.1916], of poems and a prose piece by Rupert Brooke, with notes by Edward Marsh as to the original papers, letters and notebooks from which material was copied. The contents comprise:

[ff.2-4] 'The reward' prose piece

[ff.4-5] GOD GIVE 'God give that through the labour of my day ...'

[ff.6-7] 'Hymn 666 (The stockbrokers' book of hymns, revised and augmented)' 'Lord, on this calm and holy day ...'

[f.8] IT IS WELL 'Nay, love, I weep not, but laugh o'er my dead ...'

[f.9] IN JANUARY 'What shall I tell thee of? ...'

[f.10] 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...'

[f.11] 'Only the slow rain falling ...'

[f.12] DEDICATION 'When I laid my head upon the breast ...'

[f.13] FRAGMENT ON PAINTERS] 'There is an evil which that Race attaints ...'

[f.14] Fragments

[f.15] SONG 'The way of Love was thus ...'

[f.16] 'Even as some hurried invalid would pass water ...'; 'And she will pull you into her ...'

[f.17] [IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN] 'I have known the most dear that is granted us here ...'

[f.18] [THE PINK AND LILY] 'Never came there to the Pink ...'

[f.19] 'Old Books or, the extraordinary discrepancies between the professions in the practice of the dead' 'The dead men that wrote long ago ...'

[ff.20-1] 'Ballade of middle age' 'The young men strut and squeak and roar ...'

[ff.22-4] SOMETIMES EVEN NOW ... 'Sometimes even now I may ...'

[f.25] THE TRUE BEATITUDE 'They say, when the Great Prompter's hand shall ring ...'

[ff.26-7] 'Poor Ka you see sit down with many a moan ...'

[f.27] 'He needs no wife ...'

[f.28] 'Lo! when we turn irrevocable feet ...'; 'Prince, you have suffered. I have suffered. Shake ...'

[f.29] TRAVEL ''Twas when I was in Neu Strelitz ...'

[ff.30-1] 'Asleep once in Love's tiny jewelled boat ...'; 'From the old French of Jehan de Borival. Of a town in the Marches' 'I looked at him with never a word ...'; 'Ah would I were in Bavarie ...'*

[f.32] IN FREIBURG STATION 'In Freiburg Station, waiting for a train ...'

[f.33] 'No, but because I loved you, when love slips ...'; fragments

[f.34] THE DESCENT 'Because you called, I left the mountain height ...'

[f.35] SONNET REVERSED 'Hand trembling toward hand; the amazing lights ...'

[ff.36-7] fragments

[f.38] SONG 'Oh! that apple bloom, and the pale spring sun ...'

[f.39] 'Suppose my friend there lived within a garden ...'; 'God give me joy of life ...'

[f.40] COLLOQUIAL 'It was not that you said I thought you knew ...'

[f.41] 'Bouts-rimés' 'They say Menalcas, being indigenous ...'

[f.42] 'For forty years he has taught Greek ...'

[f.43] 'Fly swallowing' 'In a splendid meadow of high July ...'

[f.44] fragments

[f.45] 'In the end' 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...'

[f.87] 'The beds of silver quiet grow ...'.

*includes lines by Frances Cornford

This item is the property of the Brooke Trustees and has been deposited at King's College, Cambridge.

The poem at f.18 THE PINK AND LILY, beginning with the line 'Never came there to the Pink ...' has been published in 'Collected poems of Rupert Brooke with a memoir' (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1918). The poem at f. 39 beginning with the line 'Suppose my friend there lived within a garden' has been published in Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), 'Poems of Rupert Brooke' (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1952).