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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, 41317
2: A Dream Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d, 361180
3: A Farewell My Horse's feet beside the lake, 88895
4: A Modern Sappho They are gone: all is still: Foolish heart, dost thou quiver? 40891
5: A Nameless Epitaph This sentence have I left behind: 111031
6: A Picture At Newstead What made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell? 14851
7: A Southern Night The sandy spits, the shore-lock’d lakes, 140849
8: A Summer Night In the deserted, moon-blanched street, 1273
9: A Wish I ask not that my bed of death 1299
10: Absence In this fair stranger’s eyes of grey 201177
11: Alaric at Rome Unwelcome shroud of the forgotten dead, 1840 2691035
12: Anti-Desperation Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, 141106
13: Apollo Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 52862
14: Apollo Musagetes Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 1154
15: Austerity Of Poetry That son of Italy who tried to blow, 141027
16: Bacchanalia The evening comes, the fields are still. 1024
17: Bacchanalia Or The New Age The evening comes, the fields are still. 899
18: Balder Dead (An Episode) So on the floor lay Balder dead; and round 1835 1230821
19: Cadmus And Harmonia Far, far from here, 1001
20: Calais Sands A thousand knights have rein’d their steeds 36906
21: Consolation Mist clogs the sunshine. 881
22: Courage True, we must tame our rebel will: 28992
23: Cromwell High fate is theirs, ye sleepless waves, whose ear 1843 245778
24: Desire Thou, who dost dwell alone; 976
25: Despondency The thoughts that rain their steady glow 8881
26: Destiny Why each is striving, from of old, 8929
27: Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. 956
28: Early Death And Fame For him who must see many years, 19885
29: East And West In the bare midst of Anglesey they show 14805
30: East London Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead 885
31: Empedocles On Etna - A Dramatic Poem I think, will not be here this hour. 1197791
32: Epilogue To Lessing’s Laocoön One Morn as through Hyde Park we walk’d. 210749
33: Excuse I too have suffer’d: yet I know 32891
34: Faded Leaves Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat 951043
35: Fragment Of An ‘Antigone’ Well hath he done who hath seiz’d happiness. 108875
36: Fragment Of Chorus Of A Dejaneira O frivolous mind of man, 31932
37: From The Hymn Of Empedocles Is it so small a thing 883
38: Funeral The gods held talk together, group’d in knots, 873
39: Growing Old What is it to grow old? 936
40: Haworth Churchyard Where, under Loughrigg, the stream 1855 190917
41: Hayeswater A region desolate and wild. 842
42: Heine’s Grave Henri Heine’, , ’tis here! 232885
43: Horatian Echo Omit, omit, my simple friend, 1847 36897
44: Human Life What mortal, when he saw, 30886
45: Immortality Foil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn, 877
46: In Utrumque Paratus If, in the silent mind of One all-pure, 42746
47: Indifference I must not say that thou wert true, 28792
48: Iseult Of Brittany A year had flown, and o’er the sea away, 234742
49: Iseult Of Ireland Raise the light, my page! that I may see her. 191758
50: Isolation - To Marguerite We were apart; yet, day by day, 837
51: Journey To The Dead Forth from the East, up the ascent of Heaven, 310833
52: Lines Written By A Death-Bed Yes, now the longing is o’erpast, 41814
53: Lines Written In Kensington Gardens In this lone, open glade I lie, 848
54: Longing Come to me in my dreams, and then 941
55: Marsyas As the sky-brightening south-wind clears the day, 70833
56: Memorial Verses - April 1850 Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, 875
57: Men Of Genius Silent, the Lord of the world 30767
58: Monica’s Last Prayer Oh could thy grave at home, at Carthage, be!’ 14818
59: Morality We cannot kindle when we will 890
60: Mycerinus Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, 834
61: Obermann In front the awful Alpine track 184807
62: Obermann Once More Glion? Ah, twenty years, it cuts 874
63: On The Rhine Vain is the effort to forget. 25790
64: Palladium Set where the upper streams of Simois flow 1057
65: Parting Ye storm-winds of Autumn 90789
66: Philomela Hark! ah, the nightingale 1077
67: Pis-Aller Man is blind because of sin; 12730
68: Poems - The New Edition - Preface In two small volumes of Poems, published anonymously, one in 1849, 30874
69: Power Of Youth And they remember With piercing untold anguish 7929
70: Progress The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. 1020
71: Quiet Work One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, 1101
72: Rachel In paris all look’d hot and like to fade. 42831
73: Religious Isolation Children (as such forgive them) have I known, 14786
74: Requiescat Strew on her roses, roses, 1010
75: Resignation To die be given us, or attain! 276779
76: Revolutions Before Man parted for this earthly strand, 20726
77: Richmond Hill Murmur of living! Stir of existence 10762
78: Rugby Chapel Coldly, sadly descends 962
79: Saint Brandan Saint Brandan sails the northern main; 1025
80: Self-Deception Say, what blinds us, that we claim the glory 28843
81: Self-Dependence Weary of myself, and sick of asking 1033
82: Separation Stop Not to me, at this bitter departing, 16750
83: Shakespeare Others abide our question. Thou art free. 954
84: Sohrab and Rustum - An Episode And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, 985
85: Sonnet One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, 1849 14781
86: Sonnet To The Hungarian Nation Not in sunk Spain’s prolong’d death agony; 1849 14741
87: Stagyrus - later titled ‘Desire’ Thou, who dost dwell alone, 62726
88: Stanzas - In Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq. I saw him sensitive in frame, 20736
89: Stanzas Composed At Carnac Far on its rocky knoll descried 1859 48783
90: Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused 829
91: Stanzas In Memory Of The Author Of 'Obermann' In front the awful Alpine track 861
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, 879
95: The Castle Down the Savoy valleys sounding, 112793
96: The Church Upon the glistening leaden roof 40754
97: The Church Of Brou Down the Savoy valleys sounding, 814
98: The Divinity Yes, write it in the rock!’ Saint Bernard said, 14755
99: The Forsaken Merman Come, dear children, let us away; 839
100: The Future A wanderer is man from his birth. 839
101: The Good Shepherd With The Kid He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save. 892
102: The Harp-Player On Etna The track winds down to the clear stream, 233745
103: The Hayswater Boat A region desolate and wild, 40847
104: The Lake Again I see my bliss at hand; 16752
105: The Last Glen The track winds down to the clear stream, 720
106: The Last Word Creep into thy narrow bed, 838
107: The Neckan In summer, on the headlands, 68783
108: The New Sirens - A Palinode In the cedar shadow sleeping, 278803
109: The Pagan World In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, 895
110: The Philosopher And The Stars And you, ye stars, Who slowly begin to marshal, 25823
111: The Progress Of Poesy - A Variation Youth rambles on life’s arid mount, 12714
112: The River Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat 20778
113: The Scholar-Gypsy Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; 1094
114: The Second Best Moderate tasks and moderate leisure, 24768
115: The Sick King In Bokhara O most just Vizier, send away 243785
116: The Song Of Callicles Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, 1108
117: The Song Of Empedocles And you, ye stars, 1090
118: The Strayed Reveller Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, 1049
119: The Terrace At Berne Ten years! and to my waking eye 52754
120: The Tomb So rest, for ever rest, O princely Pair! 46778
121: The Voice As the kindling glances, 854
122: The World And The Quietist Why, when the World’s great mind 32748
123: The World’s Triumphs So far as I conceive the World’s rebuke 14765
124: The Youth Of Man We, O Nature, depart: 118777
125: The Youth Of Nature Rais’d are the dripping oars 1343651
126: Thekla’s Answer Where I am, thou ask’st, and where I wended 24896
127: Thyrsis - A Monody How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! 1180
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? 14784
130: To A Gipsy Child By The Sea-Shore Who taught this pleading to unpractis’d eyes? 68889
131: To A Republican Friend God knows it, I am with you. If to prize 862
132: To A Republican Friend, 1848 God knows it, I am with you. If to prize 1848 14977
133: To a Republican Friend, 1848 - Continued Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem 1848 14867
134: To An Independent Preacher In harmony with Nature’? Restless fool, 14933
135: To Fausta Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows, 21878
136: To George Cruikshank, Esq. Artist, whose hand, with horror wing’d, hath torn 14892
137: To Marguerite We were apart: yet, day by day, 1857 42834
138: To Marguerite, In Returning A Volume Of The Letters Of Ortis Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d, 24894
139: To Marguriet Yes! in the sea of life enisled, 800
140: To My Friends Laugh, my Friends, and without blame 72868
141: To The Duke Of Wellington Because thou hast believ’d, the wheels of life 14662
142: Too Late Each on his own strict line we move, 8810
143: Tristram Is she not come? The messenger was sure. 390655
144: Tristram And Iseult Tristram. Is she not come? The messenger was sure, 935
145: Typho The lyre’s voice is lovely everywhere! 52670
146: West London Crouch'd on the pavement close by Belgrave Square 969
147: Worldly Place Even in a palace, life may be led well! 984
148: Written In Butler’s Sermons Affections, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, 14692
149: Written In Emerson’s Essays O monstrous, dead, unprofitable world, 14656
150: Youth And Calm Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here, 1026
151: Youth’s Agitations When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence, 14702




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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