Rupert Brooke Quotes

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". Wikipedia  

✵ 3. August 1887 – 23. April 1915
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Famous Rupert Brooke Quotes

“And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink.”

"The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" (1912)

“Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”

"The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" (1912), concluding lines

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