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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, 41320
2: A Dream Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d, 361181
3: A Farewell My Horse's feet beside the lake, 88896
4: A Modern Sappho They are gone: all is still: Foolish heart, dost thou quiver? 40892
5: A Nameless Epitaph This sentence have I left behind: 111032
6: A Picture At Newstead What made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell? 14852
7: A Southern Night The sandy spits, the shore-lock’d lakes, 140850
8: A Summer Night In the deserted, moon-blanched street, 1275
9: A Wish I ask not that my bed of death 1300
10: Absence In this fair stranger’s eyes of grey 201178
11: Alaric at Rome Unwelcome shroud of the forgotten dead, 1840 2691036
12: Anti-Desperation Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, 141107
13: Apollo Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 52863
14: Apollo Musagetes Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 1155
15: Austerity Of Poetry That son of Italy who tried to blow, 141028
16: Bacchanalia The evening comes, the fields are still. 1025
17: Bacchanalia Or The New Age The evening comes, the fields are still. 900
18: Balder Dead (An Episode) So on the floor lay Balder dead; and round 1835 1230822
19: Cadmus And Harmonia Far, far from here, 1002
20: Calais Sands A thousand knights have rein’d their steeds 36908
21: Consolation Mist clogs the sunshine. 882
22: Courage True, we must tame our rebel will: 28993
23: Cromwell High fate is theirs, ye sleepless waves, whose ear 1843 245779
24: Desire Thou, who dost dwell alone; 977
25: Despondency The thoughts that rain their steady glow 8882
26: Destiny Why each is striving, from of old, 8930
27: Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. 957
28: Early Death And Fame For him who must see many years, 19886
29: East And West In the bare midst of Anglesey they show 14806
30: East London Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead 886
31: Empedocles On Etna - A Dramatic Poem I think, will not be here this hour. 1197792
32: Epilogue To Lessing’s Laocoön One Morn as through Hyde Park we walk’d. 210750
33: Excuse I too have suffer’d: yet I know 32892
34: Faded Leaves Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat 951044
35: Fragment Of An ‘Antigone’ Well hath he done who hath seiz’d happiness. 108876
36: Fragment Of Chorus Of A Dejaneira O frivolous mind of man, 31933
37: From The Hymn Of Empedocles Is it so small a thing 884
38: Funeral The gods held talk together, group’d in knots, 874
39: Growing Old What is it to grow old? 937
40: Haworth Churchyard Where, under Loughrigg, the stream 1855 190918
41: Hayeswater A region desolate and wild. 843
42: Heine’s Grave Henri Heine’, , ’tis here! 232886
43: Horatian Echo Omit, omit, my simple friend, 1847 36898
44: Human Life What mortal, when he saw, 30887
45: Immortality Foil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn, 878
46: In Utrumque Paratus If, in the silent mind of One all-pure, 42747
47: Indifference I must not say that thou wert true, 28793
48: Iseult Of Brittany A year had flown, and o’er the sea away, 234743
49: Iseult Of Ireland Raise the light, my page! that I may see her. 191759
50: Isolation - To Marguerite We were apart; yet, day by day, 838
51: Journey To The Dead Forth from the East, up the ascent of Heaven, 310834
52: Lines Written By A Death-Bed Yes, now the longing is o’erpast, 41815
53: Lines Written In Kensington Gardens In this lone, open glade I lie, 849
54: Longing Come to me in my dreams, and then 941
55: Marsyas As the sky-brightening south-wind clears the day, 70834
56: Memorial Verses - April 1850 Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, 876
57: Men Of Genius Silent, the Lord of the world 30768
58: Monica’s Last Prayer Oh could thy grave at home, at Carthage, be!’ 14819
59: Morality We cannot kindle when we will 891
60: Mycerinus Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, 835
61: Obermann In front the awful Alpine track 184809
62: Obermann Once More Glion? Ah, twenty years, it cuts 876
63: On The Rhine Vain is the effort to forget. 25791
64: Palladium Set where the upper streams of Simois flow 1059
65: Parting Ye storm-winds of Autumn 90790
66: Philomela Hark! ah, the nightingale 1079
67: Pis-Aller Man is blind because of sin; 12731
68: Poems - The New Edition - Preface In two small volumes of Poems, published anonymously, one in 1849, 30875
69: Power Of Youth And they remember With piercing untold anguish 7930
70: Progress The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. 1021
71: Quiet Work One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, 1102
72: Rachel In paris all look’d hot and like to fade. 42833
73: Religious Isolation Children (as such forgive them) have I known, 14787
74: Requiescat Strew on her roses, roses, 1012
75: Resignation To die be given us, or attain! 276779
76: Revolutions Before Man parted for this earthly strand, 20727
77: Richmond Hill Murmur of living! Stir of existence 10763
78: Rugby Chapel Coldly, sadly descends 963
79: Saint Brandan Saint Brandan sails the northern main; 1025
80: Self-Deception Say, what blinds us, that we claim the glory 28844
81: Self-Dependence Weary of myself, and sick of asking 1034
82: Separation Stop Not to me, at this bitter departing, 16751
83: Shakespeare Others abide our question. Thou art free. 955
84: Sohrab and Rustum - An Episode And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, 986
85: Sonnet One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, 1849 14782
86: Sonnet To The Hungarian Nation Not in sunk Spain’s prolong’d death agony; 1849 14742
87: Stagyrus - later titled ‘Desire’ Thou, who dost dwell alone, 62728
88: Stanzas - In Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq. I saw him sensitive in frame, 20737
89: Stanzas Composed At Carnac Far on its rocky knoll descried 1859 48784
90: Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused 832
91: Stanzas In Memory Of The Author Of 'Obermann' In front the awful Alpine track 863
92: The Better Part Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, 838
93: The Buried Life Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, 860
94: The Buried Life Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, 880
95: The Castle Down the Savoy valleys sounding, 112795
96: The Church Upon the glistening leaden roof 40755
97: The Church Of Brou Down the Savoy valleys sounding, 815
98: The Divinity Yes, write it in the rock!’ Saint Bernard said, 14756
99: The Forsaken Merman Come, dear children, let us away; 840
100: The Future A wanderer is man from his birth. 840
101: The Good Shepherd With The Kid He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save. 893
102: The Harp-Player On Etna The track winds down to the clear stream, 233746
103: The Hayswater Boat A region desolate and wild, 40848
104: The Lake Again I see my bliss at hand; 16753
105: The Last Glen The track winds down to the clear stream, 720
106: The Last Word Creep into thy narrow bed, 839
107: The Neckan In summer, on the headlands, 68784
108: The New Sirens - A Palinode In the cedar shadow sleeping, 278804
109: The Pagan World In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, 896
110: The Philosopher And The Stars And you, ye stars, Who slowly begin to marshal, 25824
111: The Progress Of Poesy - A Variation Youth rambles on life’s arid mount, 12715
112: The River Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat 20779
113: The Scholar-Gypsy Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; 1095
114: The Second Best Moderate tasks and moderate leisure, 24769
115: The Sick King In Bokhara O most just Vizier, send away 243786
116: The Song Of Callicles Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 1109
117: The Song Of Empedocles And you, ye stars, 1091
118: The Strayed Reveller Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, 1051
119: The Terrace At Berne Ten years! and to my waking eye 52755
120: The Tomb So rest, for ever rest, O princely Pair! 46779
121: The Voice As the kindling glances, 855
122: The World And The Quietist Why, when the World’s great mind 32749
123: The World’s Triumphs So far as I conceive the World’s rebuke 14766
124: The Youth Of Man We, O Nature, depart: 118778
125: The Youth Of Nature Rais’d are the dripping oars 1343654
126: Thekla’s Answer Where I am, thou ask’st, and where I wended 24897
127: Thyrsis - A Monody How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! 1181
128: To a Friend Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind? 1058
129: To A Friend Who prop, thou ask’st in these bad days, my mind? 14785
130: To A Gipsy Child By The Sea-Shore Who taught this pleading to unpractis’d eyes? 68890
131: To A Republican Friend God knows it, I am with you. If to prize 863
132: To A Republican Friend, 1848 God knows it, I am with you. If to prize 1848 14978
133: To a Republican Friend, 1848 - Continued Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem 1848 14868
134: To An Independent Preacher In harmony with Nature’? Restless fool, 14934
135: To Fausta Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows, 21879
136: To George Cruikshank, Esq. Artist, whose hand, with horror wing’d, hath torn 14893
137: To Marguerite We were apart: yet, day by day, 1857 42835
138: To Marguerite, In Returning A Volume Of The Letters Of Ortis Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d, 24895
139: To Marguriet Yes! in the sea of life enisled, 801
140: To My Friends Laugh, my Friends, and without blame 72869
141: To The Duke Of Wellington Because thou hast believ’d, the wheels of life 14663
142: Too Late Each on his own strict line we move, 8810
143: Tristram Is she not come? The messenger was sure. 390656
144: Tristram And Iseult Tristram. Is she not come? The messenger was sure, 937
145: Typho The lyre’s voice is lovely everywhere! 52670
146: West London Crouch'd on the pavement close by Belgrave Square 970
147: Worldly Place Even in a palace, life may be led well! 985
148: Written In Butler’s Sermons Affections, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, 14692
149: Written In Emerson’s Essays O monstrous, dead, unprofitable world, 14657
150: Youth And Calm Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here, 1027
151: Youth’s Agitations When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence, 14704




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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