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Poems by Matthew Arnold

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

[VOLUME I] EARLY POEMS, NARRATIVE POEMS AND SONNETS

WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS.

WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS.

TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

IN HARMONY WITH NATURE.

TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848.

II.

III.

THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS.

STAGIRIUS.

HUMAN LIFE.

TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE, DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

A QUESTION.

IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS.

THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST.

THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA.

BALDER DEAD.

1. SENDING.

2. JOURNEY TO THE DEAD.

3. FUNERAL.

TRISTRAM AND ISEULT.

I. Tristram.

II.

II. Iseult of Ireland.

III.

III. Iseult of Brittany.

A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID.

MONICA'S LAST PRAYER.

II.

[VOLUME II] DRAMATIC AND LATER POEMS

II.

II.

III.

[VOLUME III] LYRIC AND ELEGIAC POEMS

1. MEETING.

4. ISOLATION. TO MARGUERITE.

5. TO MARGUERITE.—CONTINUED.

6. ABSENCE.

7. THE TERRACE AT BERNE.

THE STRAYED REVELLER.

FRAGMENT OF AN “ANTIGONE.”

FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A “DEJANEIRA.”

EARLY DEATH AND FAME.

THE PROGRESS OF POESY.

NEW ROME.

PIS-ALLER.

THE LAST WORD.

THE LORD'S MESSENGERS.

A NAMELESS EPITAPH.

BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE.

II.

EPILOGUE TO LESSING'S LAOCOÖN.

PERSISTENCY OF POETRY.

LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.

STANZAS IN MEMORY OF EDWARD QUILLINAN.

STANZAS FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE.

STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF “OBERMANN.”

OBERMANN ONCE MORE.

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1. MEETING.

Again I see my bliss at hand,
The town, the lake are here;
My Marguerite smiles upon the strand,

See in the first volume, among “Early Poems,” the poem called A Memory-Picture.

Unalter'd with the year.

I know that graceful figure fair,
That cheek of languid hue;
I know that soft, enkerchief'd hair,
And those sweet eyes of blue.

Again I spring to make my choice;
Again in tones of ire
I hear a God's tremendous voice:
“Be counsell'd, and retire.”

Ye guiding Powers who join and part,
What would ye have with me?
Ah, warn some more ambitious heart,
And let the peaceful be!