Showing posts with label Robert Brooke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Brooke. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Saturday Poetry Corner 28: I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true



 Today a little short poem by Rupert Brooke whose life was also short.

Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as "Chaucer;" 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) 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.”
(from here)