The Poems of Matthew Arnold
1840–1867
Matthew Arnold
While Arnold’s place among the great Victorian authors was solidified by his prose, his verse represents a bridge to the Modern era.
Bibliographic Record
Introduction
Contents
Bibliographical Note
LONDON, NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1909
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
| Author’s Preface, 1853 |
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Advertisement to the Second Edition, 1854 |
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Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, 1840 |
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Cromwell: A Prize Poem, 1843 |
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Horatian Echo, 1847 |
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Sonnet to the Hungarian Nation, 1849 |
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| The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. By A. 1849 |
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Sonnet |
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Mycerinus |
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Sonnet. To a Friend |
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The Strayed Reveller |
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Fragment of an ‘Antigone’ |
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The Sick King in Bokhara |
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| Sonnets— |
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Shakespeare |
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To the Duke of Wellington |
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Written in Butler’s Sermons |
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Written in Emerson’s Essays |
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To an Independent Preacher |
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To George Cruikshank, Esq. |
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To a Republican Friend |
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To a Republican Friend (Continued) |
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Religious Isolation |
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To my Friends |
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A Modern Sappho |
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The New Sirens |
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The Voice |
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To Fausta |
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Desire |
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Stanzas on a Gipsy Child by the Sea-shore |
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The Hayswater Boat |
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The Forsaken Merman |
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The World and the Quietist |
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In utrumque paratus |
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Resignation |
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| Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. By A. 1852
Empedocles on Etna |
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Act I. Scene I |
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Act I. Scene II |
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Act II |
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| Poems:— |
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The River |
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Excuse |
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Indifference |
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Too Late |
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On the Rhine |
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Longing |
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The Lake |
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Parting |
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Absence |
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Destiny |
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To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis |
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Human Life |
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Despondency |
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Youth’s Agitations |
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Self-Deception |
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Lines written by a Death-Bed |
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| Tristram and Iseult |
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Tristram |
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Iseult of Ireland |
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Iseult of Brittany |
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Memorial Verses |
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Courage |
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Self-Dependence |
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A Summer Night |
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The Buried Life |
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A Farewell |
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Obermann |
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Consolation |
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Lines written in Kensington Gardens |
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The World’s Triumphs |
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The Second Best |
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Revolutions |
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The Youth of Nature |
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The Youth of Man |
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Morality |
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Progress |
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The Future |
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| Poems; A New Edition. 1853 |
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Sohrab and Rustum. An Episode |
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Philomela |
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Thekla’s Answer |
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| The Church of Brou |
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The Castle |
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The Church |
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The Tomb |
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The Neckan |
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A Dream |
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Requiescat |
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The Scholar Gipsy |
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Stanzas in Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq. |
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| Poems, Second Series, 1855
Balder Dead. An Episode |
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Sending |
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Journey to The Dead |
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Funeral |
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Separation |
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| Two Poems from Magazines, 1855 |
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Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse |
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Haworth Churchyard, April, 1855 |
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| Poems, Third Edition, 1857 |
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To Marguerite |
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| Merope. A Tragedy. 1858 |
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Preface |
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Historical Introduction |
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Merope |
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| Poems from Magazines, 1860–1866 |
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Men of Genius |
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Saint Brandan |
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A Southern Night |
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Thyrsis |
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| New Poems, 1867 |
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A Picture at Newstead |
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Rachel |
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East London |
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West London |
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Anti-Desperation |
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Immortality |
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Worldly Place |
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The Divinity |
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The Good Shepherd with the Kid |
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Austerity of Poetry |
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East and West |
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Monica’s Last Prayer |
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Calais Sands |
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Dover Beach |
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The Terrace at Berne |
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Stanzas composed at Carnac |
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Fragment of Chorus of a Dejaneira |
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Palladium |
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Early Death and Fame |
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Youth and Calm |
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Growing Old |
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The Progress of Poesy |
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A Nameless Epitaph |
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The Last Word |
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A Wish |
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A Caution to Poets |
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Pis-Aller |
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Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoön |
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Bacchanalia; Or, The New Age |
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Rugby Chapel |
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Heine’s Grave |
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Obermann once more |
