The poetical works of Matthew Arnold

by Matthew Arnold

MATTHEW ARNOLD.

THE POETICAL WORKS

 

OF

 

MATTHEW ARNOLD

 

COMPLETE EDITION
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION

 

 

NEW YORK: 46 East 14th Street

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY

BOSTON: 100 Purchase Street

 

Copyright, 1897,
By T. Y. CROWELL & CO.

 

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

 

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
Note	viii
Biographical Introduction	ix
Bibliography	xxiii
EARLY POEMS.
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
A Dream	58
Horatian Echo	59
NARRATIVE POEMS.
Sohrab and Rustum	61
The Sick King in Bokhara	88
Balder Dead:—
I. Sending	96
II. Journey to the Dead	106
III. Funeral	116
Tristram and Iseult:—
I. Tristram	133
II. Iseult of Ireland	145
III. Iseult of Brittany	152
Saint Brandan	159
The Neckan	162
The Forsaken Merman	164
SONNETS.
Austerity of Poetry	169
A Picture at Newstead	169
Rachel: I., II., III.	170
Worldly Place	172
East London	172
West London	173
East and West	173
The Better Part	174
The Divinity	174
Immortality	175
The Good Shepherd with the Kid	175
Monica's Last Prayer	176
LYRIC AND DRAMATIC POEMS.
Switzerland:—
I. Meeting	177
II. Parting	178
III. A Farewell	181
IV. Isolation. To Marguerite	184
V. To Marguerite. Continued	185
VI. Absence	186
VII. The Terrace at Berne	187
The Strayed Reveller	189
Fragment of an "Antigone"	199
Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira"	203
Early Death and Fame	204
Philomela	204
Urania	206
Euphrosyne	207
Calais Sands	208
Faded Leaves:—
I. The River	209
II. Too Late	210
III. Separation	210
IV. On the Rhine	211
V. Longing	211
Despondency	212
Self-Deception	212
Dover Beach	213
Growing Old	215
The Progress of Poesy	216
Pis Aller	216
The Last Word	217
A Nameless Epitaph	217
Empedocles on Etna	218
Bacchanalia; or, the New Age	256
Epilogue to Lessing's Laocoön	260
Persistency of Poetry	266
A Caution to Poets	266
The Youth of Nature	267
The Youth of Man	271
Palladium	275
Progress	275
Revolutions	277
Self-Dependence	278
Morality	279
A Summer Night	280
The Buried Life	283
Lines written in Kensington Gardens	286
A Wish	288
The Future	290
New Rome	293
The Lord's Messengers	294
Merope	295
ELEGIAC POEMS.
The Scholar-Gypsy	381
Thyrsis	389
Memorial Verses	397
Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan	400
Stanzas from Carnac	401
A Southern Night	402
Haworth Churchyard	407
Epilogue	411
Rugby Chapel	411
Heine's Grave	418
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse	425
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of Obermann	432
Obermann Once More	438
LATER POEMS.
Westminster Abbey	451
Geist's Grave	457
Poor Matthias	460
Kaiser Dead	467
S. S. "Lusitania"	470
ADDITIONAL EARLY POEMS.
Alaric at Rome	471
Cromwell	481
The Hayswater Boat	488
Sonnet to the Hungarian Nation	490
Destiny	490
Courage	491
Thekla's Answer	492
Notes	493