Chapter I: Front Matter

POEMS

BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD.

_NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION._

NEW YORK:

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.,

NO. 13 ASTOR PLACE.

CONTENTS.

_EARLY POEMS._

PAGE

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

_NARRATIVE POEMS._

SOHRAB AND RUSTUM 59

THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA 86

BALDER DEAD:--

I. Sending 94

II. Journey to the Dead 104

III. Funeral 114

TRISTRAM AND ISEULT:--

I. Tristram 131

II. Iseult of Ireland 143

III. Iseult of Brittany 150

SAINT BRANDAN 157

THE NECKAN 160

THE FORSAKEN MERMAN 162

_SONNETS._

AUSTERITY OF POETRY 167

A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD 167

RACHEL: I., II., III 168

WORLDLY PLACE 170

EAST LONDON 170

WEST LONDON 171

EAST AND WEST 171

THE BETTER PART 172

THE DIVINITY 172

IMMORTALITY 173

THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID 173

MONICA’S LAST PRAYER 174

_LYRIC AND DRAMATIC POEMS._

SWITZERLAND:--

I. Meeting 175

II. Parting 176

III. A Farewell 179

IV. Isolation. To Marguerite 182

V. To Marguerite. Continued 183

VI. Absence 184

VII. The Terrace at Berne 185

THE STRAYED REVELLER 187

FRAGMENT OF AN “ANTIGONE” 197

FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A “DEJANEIRA” 201

EARLY DEATH AND FAME 202

PHILOMELA 202

URANIA 204

EUPHROSYNE 205

CALAIS SANDS 206

FADED LEAVES:--

I. The River 207

II. Too Late 208

III. Separation 208

IV. On the Rhine 209

V. Longing 209

DESPONDENCY 210

SELF-DECEPTION 210

DOVER BEACH 211

GROWING OLD 213

THE PROGRESS OF POESY 214

PIS ALLER 214

THE LAST WORD 215

A NAMELESS EPITAPH 215

EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA 216

BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE 254