Waikiki by Rupert Brooke
b'Brooke read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n Waikiki \\nby Rupert Brooke (1887 \\u2013 1915) \\n\\nWarm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree\\n Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes,\\n Somewhere an eukaleli thrills and cries\\nAnd stabs with pain the night\\u2019s brown savagery.\\nAnd dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,\\n Gleam like a woman\\u2019s hair, stretch out, and rise;\\n And new stars burn into the ancient skies,\\nOver the murmurous soft Hawaian sea.\\n \\nAnd I recall, lose, grasp, forget again,\\n And still remember, a tale I have heard, or known,\\nAn empty tale, of idleness and pain,\\n Of two that loved\\u2014or did not love\\u2014and one\\nWhose perplexed heart did evil, foolishly,\\nA long while since, and by some other sea.'