First recited from the pulpit of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1915 on Easter Sunday, then published the next day in The Times ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke quickly became renowned as one of the ...

During his Easter sermon of 1915, the Dean of St Paul’s read out Rupert Brooke’s poem The Soldier, which begins: ‘If I should die, think only this of me: / That there’s some corner of a ...

In it, she quoted The Soldier, by soldier Rupert Brooke, which dates back to the same year, saying: 'There is in that rich earth a richer dust concealed'. The sonnett was written while Brooke ...

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

Among other quintessentially English anniversaries—Shakespeare’s birthday, St. George’s Day—April 23rd marks a hundred years since the death of Rupert Brooke ... Soldier,” was a war poem.

Rupert Brooke ... "The Soldier" is a sonnet from the early months of World War I. Its blend of sheer patriotism and ethereal religious nostalgia had taken the country by storm, and the poem ...

The Remembrance Day poem ... War by Rupert Brooke. He was part of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and died of an infection in 1915. The most famous lines from The Soldier are ...

Rupert Brooke ... men in the country. Brooke was one of the best - a prize winner and founder of a school magazine. Nine months into the conflict Brooke's poem The Soldier was read to the ...

Rupert Brooke (born August ... especially The Soldier, which was read from the pulpit of St Paul’s Cathedral on Easter Sunday of 1915. Brooke was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer ...