# The poetical works of 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 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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