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MATTHE\V ARNOLD

POETICAL WORKS

OF

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