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MATTHE\V ARNOLD
POETICAL WORKS
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MATTHEW ARNOLD
l..onbon MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK Fl',st Complete Edition printtd September 1890 Rejrz'Hled Novellilur Ilna Dtctmkr 18go. July 18gl, 1892
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EARLY POEMS SONNETS- PAGE
QUIET WOIlK
To A FIlIEND
SHAKESPKAIlK WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS 3 WRITTEN IN BUTI.ER'S SERMONS 4 To THB DUKB OF WEI.LlNGTON 4 IN HARMONY WITH NATURE, S To GEORGI!. CRUIKSHANK 6
To A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848 6 CONTINUED 7 RELIGIOUS ISOLATION, 8
MYCERINUS, 8
THE CHURCH OF BROU
I. TilE CASTI.It 13 II, THI!. CHURCH 17
III. THB TOMB 18
A MODERN SAPPHO 20
REQtJI ESCAT 21
YOUTH AND CALM. 22 viii CONTENTS
PAGB A MEMORy-PICTURE 23 A DREAM 25 THE NEW SIRENS 26 THE VOICE _ 36 YOUTH'S AGITATIONS 37 THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS 38 STAGIRIUS _ 38 HUMAN LIFE 40 To A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE " 41 A QUESTION 44 IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS 45 THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST _ 46 HORATIAN ECHO 47 THE SECOND BEST._ 49 CONSOLATION 50 RESIGNATION 52
NARRATIVE POEMS
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM
THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA
BALDER DEAD- 1_ SENDING 101
2. JOURNEY TO THE DEAD III
3. FUNERAL 121
TRISTRAM AND ISEULT
I. TRISTRAM -. 2. ISEULT OF IRELAND
3. ISEULT OF BRITTANY CONTENTS
SAINT BIlANDAN •165 ,liE NECKAN ~;;;~ THE FORSAKEN MEllMAN 170
SONNETS
AUSTEIlITY 0
RACHEL:• I, II, III
WORLDLY PLACE
EAST LoNDON
WEST LoNDON
EAST AND WEST
Tlllt BETTER PART
THE DIVINITY
IMMORTALITY
TilE Goon SHEPHERD WITH THE Km
MONICA'S LAST PRAYER
/' LYRIC POEMS SWITZEIlLAND-
I. MKKTING
2. rARTING
3· A FAREWELL ... ISOLATION • To IIIAIlGUKRITK s· To MAIlGUERITL-CoI'TINUED 6- ABSENCE ,. THE TKRRACE AT BERNE . x CONTENTS
PAC THE STRAYED REVELLER. 2(
FRAGMENT OF AN "ANTIGONE" 21
FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A "DEJANEIRA" 21
EARLY DI(ATH AND FAME. 21
, PHILOMELA . 21
URANIA 21
EUPHROSYNE 21
CALAIS SANDS 21
FADED LEAVES-
I. THE RIVER. 22
2. Too LATE. 22
3.. SEPARATION 22
4. ON THE RHINB 22
S. LONGING 22
DESPONDENCY 22
SELF-DECEPTION 22,
DOVER BEACH 221
GROWING OLD
THE PROGRESS OF POESY 22:
NEW ROME.
PIs-ALLER • 23C
THE LAST WORD
THE LORD'S MESSENGERS
A'NAMELESS EPITAPH
BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE
EPILOGUE TO LESSING'S LAOCOON
PERSISTENCY OF POETRY 243
A CAUTION 1'0 POETS 243 CONTENTS xi
PAGB THB YOUTH OF NATUIlK
THE YOUTH OF MAN
PALLADIUM.
PIlOGRESS ,.,REVOLUTIONS SELF-DEPENDENCE
MOIlALlTY I) A SUM";1l NIGHT.
THE BUlliED LIFB •
LINES WIlITT&N IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
A WISH
TilE FUTURE
ELEGIAC POEMS
THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY 273
TIIYRSIS 281
MEMORIAL VERSES. 289
STANZAS IN MEMORY OF EDWAIlD QUILLINAN 292
STANZAS ."ROM CAIlNAC 292
A SOllTIIERN NIGHT 294
HAWORTH CHURCJlYAIlV 299
Erll.OGuE 303
RUGBY CHAPEL 304
HEISE'S GIlAYE 311
STANZAS FIlOM THB GIlANDE CHARTREUSE 318
ST.u;ZAS IN MEMOIlY OF THE AUTHOR OF "OBERMANN" 325
OIlF.IlMANN ONCE MORE 332 xii CONTENTS
DRAMATIC POEMS PAGB MEROPE, A TRAGEDY 347 EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA 436
LATER POEMS
'VESTMINSTER ABBEY 479 GEIST'S GRAVE (,. 485 POOR MATTHIAS 488 KAISER DEAD 495 NOTES 501