Janus: The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

King's/PP/RCB/V contains:
1	Album of manuscript poems
2	Album of manuscript poems
3	Manuscript of [1914 IV.] THE DEAD.
4	Poems and poetic criticism
5	Poems
5A	'Calypso' and 'Sohrab and Rustam' (a Latin translation)
6	Fragmentary poems and verse jottings
7	Poems and jottings
8	EVENING
9	[SONG], here titled 'Spring'
10	'The sad story of Professor Montagu'
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The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

Title	Album of manuscript poems
Reference	RCB/V/2
Covering Dates	1907–1912 (Dates have been estimated.)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper

Content and context

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.

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

Further information

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

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