Poems

Matthew Arnold

EARLY POEMS. SONNETS. QUIET WORK. One lesson, Nature, let me

NARRATIVE POEMS. SOHRAB AND RUSTUM. [5] AN EPISODE.

SONNETS. AUSTERITY OF POETRY.

LYRIC AND DRAMATIC POEMS. SWITZERLAND. I. MEETING. Again I see

ELEGIAC POEMS. THE SCHOLAR-GYPSY. [17] Go , for they call you,

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EARLY POEMS.
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Sonnets:—
Quiet Work"	1
To a Friend"	2
Shakspeare"	2
Written in Emerson’s Essays"	3
Written in Butler’s Sermons"	3
To the Duke of Wellington"	4
“In Harmony with Nature”	5
To George Cruikshank"	5
To a Republican Friend, 1848"	6
Continued"	7
Religious Isolation"	7
Mycerinus	8
The Church of Brou:—
I. The Castle"	12
II. The Church"	16
III. The Tomb"	18
A Modern Sappho	19
Requiescat	21
Youth and Calm	22
A Memory-Picture	23
The New Sirens	25
The Voice	34
Youth’s Agitations	36
The World’s Triumphs	36
Stagirius	37
Human Life	39
To a Gypsy Child by the Seashore	40
A Question	43
In Utrumque Paratus	43
The World and the Quietist	45
The Second Best	46
Consolation	47
Resignation	49
NARRATIVE POEMS.
Sohrab and Rustum	59
The Sick King in Bokhara	86
Balder Dead:—
I. Sending"	94
II. Journey to the Dead"	104
III. Funeral"	114
Tristram and Iseult:—
I. Tristram"	131
II. Iseult of Ireland"	143
III. Iseult of Brittany"	150
Saint Brandan	157
The Neckan	160
The Forsaken Merman	162
SONNETS.
Austerity of Poetry	167
A Picture at Newstead	167
Rachel: I., II., III	168
Worldly Place	170
East London	170
West London	171
East and West	171
The Better Part	172
The Divinity	172
Immortality	173
The Good Shepherd with the Kid	173
Monica’s Last Prayer	174
LYRIC AND DRAMATIC POEMS.
Switzerland
I. Meeting"	175
II. Parting"	176
III. A Farewell"	179
IV. Isolation. To Marguerite"	182
V. To Marguerite. Continued"	183
VI. Absence"	184
VII. The Terrace at Berne"	185
The Strayed Reveller	187
Fragment of an “Antigone”	197
Fragment of Chorus of a “Dejaneira”	201
Early Death and Fame	202
Philomela	202
Urania	204
Euphrosyne	205
Calais Sands	206
Faded Leaves:—
I. The River"	207
II. Too Late"	208
III. Separation"	208
IV. On the Rhine"	209
V. Longing"	209
Despondency	210
Self-Deception	210
Dover Beach	211
Growing Old	213
The Progress of Poesy	214
Pis Aller	214
The Last Word	215
A Nameless Epitaph	215
Empedocles on Etna	216
Bacchanalia; or, The New Age	254
Epilogue to Lessing’s LaocoÖn	258