Matthew Arnold (1822–88). The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. 1909.
Empedocles on Etna, and Other PoemsDestiny
[First published 1852. Not reprinted by the author.]
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To love more deeply than he can?
Still would be true, yet still grows cold?
—Ask of the Powers that sport with man!
A heart of ice, a soul of fire;
And hurl’d him on the Field of Life,
An aimless unallay’d Desire.