CONTENTS EARLY POEMS Sonnets PAGE Quiet Work 1 To a Friend 2
EARLY POEMS
SONNETS
QUIET WORK
TO A FRIEND
SHAKESPEARE
WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS
WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS
TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON HEARING HIM MISPRAISED Because
IN HARMONY WITH NATURE TO A PREACHER "In harmony with Nature?"
TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK ON SEEING, IN THE COUNTRY, HIS PICTURE OF
TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848
CONTINUED
RELIGIOUS ISOLATION TO THE SAME FRIEND Children (as such
MYCERINUS [2]
THE CHURCH OF BROU I The Castle Down the Savoy valleys
A MODERN SAPPHO
REQUIESCAT
YOUTH AND CALM
A MEMORY-PICTURE
A DREAM
THE NEW SIRENS
THE VOICE
YOUTH'S AGITATIONS
THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS
STAGIRIUS [3]
HUMAN LIFE
TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN Who
A QUESTION TO FAUSTA Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS
THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST TO CRITIAS "Why, when the world's
HORATIAN ECHO [4] (TO AN AMBITIOUS FRIEND) Omit, omit, my
THE SECOND BEST
CONSOLATION
RESIGNATION TO FAUSTA To die be given us, or attain! Fierce
NARRATIVE POEMS
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM [6] AN EPISODE And the first grey of morning
THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA
BALDER DEAD [7]
TRISTRAM AND ISEULT [8]
SAINT BRANDAN
THE NECKAN
THE FORSAKEN MERMAN
SONNETS (2)
AUSTERITY OF POETRY
A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD
RACHEL
WORLDLY PLACE
EAST LONDON
WEST LONDON
EAST AND WEST
THE BETTER PART
THE DIVINITY
IMMORTALITY
THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID
MONICA'S LAST PRAYER [12]
LYRIC POEMS
SWITZERLAND
THE STRAYED REVELLER THE PORTICO OF CIRCE'S PALACE. EVENING
FRAGMENT OF AN "ANTIGONE"
FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A "DEJANEIRA"
EARLY DEATH AND FAME
PHILOMELA
URANIA
EUPHROSYNE
CALAIS SANDS
FADED LEAVES
DESPONDENCY
SELF-DECEPTION
DOVER BEACH
GROWING OLD
THE PROGRESS OF POESY A VARIATION Youth rambles on life's arid
NEW ROME LINES WRITTEN FOR MISS STORY'S ALBUM The armless
PIS-ALLER
THE LAST WORD
THE LORD'S MESSENGERS
A NAMELESS EPITAPH
BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE
EPILOGUE TO LESSING'S LAOCOON
PERSISTENCY OF POETRY
A CAUTION TO POETS
THE YOUTH OF NATURE
THE YOUTH OF MAN
PALLADIUM
PROGRESS
REVOLUTIONS
SELF-DEPENDENCE
MORALITY
A SUMMER NIGHT
THE BURIED LIFE
LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
A WISH
THE FUTURE
ELEGIAC POEMS
THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY [16]
THYRSIS [17] A Monody , to commemorate the author's friend ,
MEMORIAL VERSES APRIL, 1850 Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and
STANZAS IN MEMORY OF EDWARD QUILLINAN
STANZAS FROM CARNAC
A SOUTHERN NIGHT
HAWORTH CHURCHYARD APRIL, 1855 Where, under Loughrigg, the
EPILOGUE
RUGBY CHAPEL November 1857 Coldly, sadly descends The
HEINE'S GRAVE
STANZAS FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE
STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF "OBERMANN" [25] November ,
OBERMANN ONCE MORE (COMPOSED MANY YEARS AFTER THE PRECEDING)
DRAMATIC POEMS
MEROPE A TRAGEDY STORY OF THE DRAMA
MEROPE
EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA A DRAMATIC POEM
ACT I. SCENE I.
SCENE II
ACT II
LATER POEMS
WESTMINSTER ABBEY July 25, 1881. ( The Day of Burial, in the
GEIST'S GRAVE
POOR MATTHIAS
KAISER DEAD April 6, 1887. What, Kaiser dead? The heavy news
NOTES
MESSRS. MACMILLAN and CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Title: Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
Author: Matthew Arnold
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POETICAL WORKS
OF
MATTHEW ARNOLD
First Complete Edition printed September 1890.
Reprinted November and December 1890. July 1891.
POETICAL WORKS
OF
MATTHEW ARNOLD
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1891
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