Love is a flame; - we have beaconed the world's night. A city: - and we have built it, these and I. An emperor: - we have taught the world to die.
Rupert BrookeAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: August 3, 1887
- Died: April 23, 1915
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