"Sonnet Reversed" by Rupert Brooke

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 11, 2018   Sonnet Reversed   Rupert Brooke

Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights.   Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon!    Soon they returned, and, after strange adventures, Settled at Balham by the end of June.    Their money was in Can. Pacs. B. Debentures, And in Antofagastas. Still he went    Cityward daily; still she did abide At home. And both were really quite content    With work and social pleasures. Then they died. They left three children (besides George, who drank):    The eldest Jane, who married Mr. Bell, William, the head-clerk in the County Bank,    And Henry, a stock-broker, doing well.                This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Sonnet Reversed" was published in The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (Dodd, Mead, 1915).   Rupert Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. His books include The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (Dodd, Mead, 1915) and 1914 and Other Poems (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915), among others. He died on April 23, 1915. Poetry by Brooke   1914 and Other Poems (Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2017) "Honeymoon" by Louis Simpson "Canon 501" by Brian Swann "Marriage" by Nicole Callihan August Guest Editor: Evie Shockley   Thanks to Evie Shockley, author of semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Shockley​ and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038