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Matthew Arnold

24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Caution To Poets What poets feel not, when they make, 41184
2: A Dream Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d, 361125
3: A Farewell My Horse's feet beside the lake, 88834
4: A Modern Sappho They are gone: all is still: Foolish heart, dost thou quiver? 40844
5: A Nameless Epitaph This sentence have I left behind: 11905
6: A Picture At Newstead What made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell? 14801
7: A Southern Night The sandy spits, the shore-lock’d lakes, 140790
8: A Summer Night In the deserted, moon-blanched street, 1196
9: A Wish I ask not that my bed of death 1239
10: Absence In this fair stranger’s eyes of grey 201127
11: Alaric at Rome Unwelcome shroud of the forgotten dead, 1840 269997
12: Anti-Desperation Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, 141055
13: Apollo Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 52797
14: Apollo Musagetes Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 1114
15: Austerity Of Poetry That son of Italy who tried to blow, 14992
16: Bacchanalia The evening comes, the fields are still. 975
17: Bacchanalia Or The New Age The evening comes, the fields are still. 859
18: Balder Dead (An Episode) So on the floor lay Balder dead; and round 1835 1230779
19: Cadmus And Harmonia Far, far from here, 937
20: Calais Sands A thousand knights have rein’d their steeds 36854
21: Consolation Mist clogs the sunshine. 829
22: Courage True, we must tame our rebel will: 28936
23: Cromwell High fate is theirs, ye sleepless waves, whose ear 1843 245731
24: Desire Thou, who dost dwell alone; 909
25: Despondency The thoughts that rain their steady glow 8835
26: Destiny Why each is striving, from of old, 8882
27: Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. 902
28: Early Death And Fame For him who must see many years, 19824
29: East And West In the bare midst of Anglesey they show 14761
30: East London Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead 827
31: Empedocles On Etna - A Dramatic Poem I think, will not be here this hour. 1197732
32: Epilogue To Lessing’s Laocoön One Morn as through Hyde Park we walk’d. 210705
33: Excuse I too have suffer’d: yet I know 32824
34: Faded Leaves Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat 95994
35: Fragment Of An ‘Antigone’ Well hath he done who hath seiz’d happiness. 108832
36: Fragment Of Chorus Of A Dejaneira O frivolous mind of man, 31893
37: From The Hymn Of Empedocles Is it so small a thing 834
38: Funeral The gods held talk together, group’d in knots, 812
39: Growing Old What is it to grow old? 884
40: Haworth Churchyard Where, under Loughrigg, the stream 1855 190874
41: Hayeswater A region desolate and wild. 784
42: Heine’s Grave Henri Heine’, , ’tis here! 232841
43: Horatian Echo Omit, omit, my simple friend, 1847 36860
44: Human Life What mortal, when he saw, 30838
45: Immortality Foil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn, 836
46: In Utrumque Paratus If, in the silent mind of One all-pure, 42696
47: Indifference I must not say that thou wert true, 28743
48: Iseult Of Brittany A year had flown, and o’er the sea away, 234700
49: Iseult Of Ireland Raise the light, my page! that I may see her. 191714
50: Isolation - To Marguerite We were apart; yet, day by day, 798
51: Journey To The Dead Forth from the East, up the ascent of Heaven, 310789
52: Lines Written By A Death-Bed Yes, now the longing is o’erpast, 41757
53: Lines Written In Kensington Gardens In this lone, open glade I lie, 803
54: Longing Come to me in my dreams, and then 875
55: Marsyas As the sky-brightening south-wind clears the day, 70775
56: Memorial Verses - April 1850 Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, 831
57: Men Of Genius Silent, the Lord of the world 30718
58: Monica’s Last Prayer Oh could thy grave at home, at Carthage, be!’ 14769
59: Morality We cannot kindle when we will 834
60: Mycerinus Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, 787
61: Obermann In front the awful Alpine track 184727
62: Obermann Once More Glion? Ah, twenty years, it cuts 828
63: On The Rhine Vain is the effort to forget. 25743
64: Palladium Set where the upper streams of Simois flow 996
65: Parting Ye storm-winds of Autumn 90736
66: Philomela Hark! ah, the nightingale 1025
67: Pis-Aller Man is blind because of sin; 12673
68: Poems - The New Edition - Preface In two small volumes of Poems, published anonymously, one in 1849, 30841
69: Power Of Youth And they remember With piercing untold anguish 7868
70: Progress The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. 967
71: Quiet Work One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, 1056
72: Rachel In paris all look’d hot and like to fade. 42774
73: Religious Isolation Children (as such forgive them) have I known, 14743
74: Requiescat Strew on her roses, roses, 966
75: Resignation To die be given us, or attain! 276733
76: Revolutions Before Man parted for this earthly strand, 20677
77: Richmond Hill Murmur of living! Stir of existence 10706
78: Rugby Chapel Coldly, sadly descends 916
79: Saint Brandan Saint Brandan sails the northern main; 975
80: Self-Deception Say, what blinds us, that we claim the glory 28790
81: Self-Dependence Weary of myself, and sick of asking 980
82: Separation Stop Not to me, at this bitter departing, 16699
83: Shakespeare Others abide our question. Thou art free. 915
84: Sohrab and Rustum - An Episode And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, 947
85: Sonnet One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, 1849 14714
86: Sonnet To The Hungarian Nation Not in sunk Spain’s prolong’d death agony; 1849 14697
87: Stagyrus - later titled ‘Desire’ Thou, who dost dwell alone, 62683
88: Stanzas - In Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq. I saw him sensitive in frame, 20689
89: Stanzas Composed At Carnac Far on its rocky knoll descried 1859 48725
90: Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused 793
91: Stanzas In Memory Of The Author Of 'Obermann' In front the awful Alpine track 811
92: The Better Part Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, 788
93: The Buried Life Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, 806
94: The Buried Life Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, 828
95: The Castle Down the Savoy valleys sounding, 112731
96: The Church Upon the glistening leaden roof 40682
97: The Church Of Brou Down the Savoy valleys sounding, 761
98: The Divinity Yes, write it in the rock!’ Saint Bernard said, 14687
99: The Forsaken Merman Come, dear children, let us away; 787
100: The Future A wanderer is man from his birth. 769
101: The Good Shepherd With The Kid He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save. 837
102: The Harp-Player On Etna The track winds down to the clear stream, 233694
103: The Hayswater Boat A region desolate and wild, 40794
104: The Lake Again I see my bliss at hand; 16701
105: The Last Glen The track winds down to the clear stream, 655
106: The Last Word Creep into thy narrow bed, 770
107: The Neckan In summer, on the headlands, 68713
108: The New Sirens - A Palinode In the cedar shadow sleeping, 278749
109: The Pagan World In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, 823
110: The Philosopher And The Stars And you, ye stars, Who slowly begin to marshal, 25765
111: The Progress Of Poesy - A Variation Youth rambles on life’s arid mount, 12666
112: The River Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat 20709
113: The Scholar-Gypsy Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; 1043
114: The Second Best Moderate tasks and moderate leisure, 24717
115: The Sick King In Bokhara O most just Vizier, send away 243721
116: The Song Of Callicles Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 1052
117: The Song Of Empedocles And you, ye stars, 1043
118: The Strayed Reveller Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, 998
119: The Terrace At Berne Ten years! and to my waking eye 52713
120: The Tomb So rest, for ever rest, O princely Pair! 46718
121: The Voice As the kindling glances, 795
122: The World And The Quietist Why, when the World’s great mind 32703
123: The World’s Triumphs So far as I conceive the World’s rebuke 14714
124: The Youth Of Man We, O Nature, depart: 118710
125: The Youth Of Nature Rais’d are the dripping oars 1343081
126: Thekla’s Answer Where I am, thou ask’st, and where I wended 24844
127: Thyrsis - A Monody How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! 1106
128: To a Friend Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind? 1006
129: To A Friend Who prop, thou ask’st in these bad days, my mind? 14745
130: To A Gipsy Child By The Sea-Shore Who taught this pleading to unpractis’d eyes? 68853
131: To A Republican Friend God knows it, I am with you. If to prize 808
132: To A Republican Friend, 1848 God knows it, I am with you. If to prize 1848 14930
133: To a Republican Friend, 1848 - Continued Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem 1848 14824
134: To An Independent Preacher In harmony with Nature’? Restless fool, 14882
135: To Fausta Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows, 21833
136: To George Cruikshank, Esq. Artist, whose hand, with horror wing’d, hath torn 14845
137: To Marguerite We were apart: yet, day by day, 1857 42785
138: To Marguerite, In Returning A Volume Of The Letters Of Ortis Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d, 24844
139: To Marguriet Yes! in the sea of life enisled, 751
140: To My Friends Laugh, my Friends, and without blame 72817
141: To The Duke Of Wellington Because thou hast believ’d, the wheels of life 14625
142: Too Late Each on his own strict line we move, 8748
143: Tristram Is she not come? The messenger was sure. 390607
144: Tristram And Iseult Tristram. Is she not come? The messenger was sure, 894
145: Typho The lyre’s voice is lovely everywhere! 52630
146: West London Crouch'd on the pavement close by Belgrave Square 914
147: Worldly Place Even in a palace, life may be led well! 940
148: Written In Butler’s Sermons Affections, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, 14647
149: Written In Emerson’s Essays O monstrous, dead, unprofitable world, 14612
150: Youth And Calm Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here, 969
151: Youth’s Agitations When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence, 14649




About:
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools.
He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.


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