Matthew Arnold (1822–88). The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. 1909.
New Poems, 1867A Picture at Newstead
[First published 1867.]
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’Twas not the thought of Byron, of his cry
Stormily sweet, his Titan agony;
It was the sight of that Lord Arundel
And the child’s reason flickered, and did die.
Painted (he will’d it) in the gallery
They hang; the picture doth the story tell.
The little fair-hair’d son, with vacant gaze,
Where no more lights of sense or knowledge are!
Baring his dumb remorse to future days,
Was woe than Byron’s woe more tragic far.