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Matthew Arnold (1822–88). The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. 1909.

New Poems, 1867

A Caution to Poets

[First published 1867.]

WHAT poets feel not, when they make,

A pleasure in creating,

The world, in its turn, will not take

Pleasure in contemplating.