Rupert Brooke

One of the greatest modern [Great War era/early pre-Modernist, I mean] poets was British writer Rupert Brooke [1887-1915]. A great poem by him is "Beauty and Beauty", if you enjoy this be sure to try more of his work here. Brooke was exceptional at being a poet, even more for his early Great War poems--he blends the early trends of Modernism [concise style, ancient moods, Imagist hints] with an older, Romantic, Shelley-like style. His work is moving, lovely, subtle and also dark, eerie and draws you in:

When Beauty and Beauty meet
   All naked, fair to fair,
The earth is crying-sweet,
   And scattering-bright the air,
Eddying, dizzying, closing round,
   With soft and drunken laughter;
Veiling all that may befall
   After--after--

Where Beauty and Beauty met,
   Earth's still a-tremble there,
And winds are scented yet,
   And memory-soft the air,
Bosoming, folding glints of light,
   And shreds of shadowy laughter;
Not the tears that fill the years
   After--after--

1912.