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P O E M S BY MATTHEW ARNOLD.
CONTENTS.
EARLY POEMS. SONNETS.
QUIET WORK.
TO A FRIEND.
SHAKSPEARE.
WRITTEN IN EMERSON’S ESSAYS.
WRITTEN IN BUTLER’S SERMONS.
TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. ON HEARING HIM MISPRAISED.
IN HARMONY WITH NATURE. TO A PREACHER.
TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. ON SEEING, IN THE COUNTRY, HIS PICTURE OF “THE BOTTLE.”
TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848.
CONTINUED.
RELIGIOUS ISOLATION. TO THE SAME FRIEND.
MYCERINUS.[2]
THE CHURCH OF BROU.
I. The Castle.
II. The Church.
III. The Tomb.
A MODERN SAPPHO.
REQUIESCAT.
YOUTH AND CALM.
A MEMORY-PICTURE.
THE NEW SIRENS.
THE VOICE.
YOUTH’S AGITATIONS.
THE WORLD’S TRIUMPHS.
STAGIRIUS.[3]
HUMAN LIFE.
TO A GYPSY CHILD BY THE SEASHORE; DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
A QUESTION. TO FAUSTA.
IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS.
THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST. TO CRITIAS.
THE SECOND BEST.
CONSOLATION.
RESIGNATION. TO FAUSTA.
NARRATIVE POEMS.
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM.[5] AN EPISODE.
THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA.
BALDER DEAD.[6]
I. SENDING.
II. JOURNEY TO THE DEAD.
III. FUNERAL.
TRISTRAM AND ISEULT.[7]
I. Tristram.
TRISTRAM AND ISEULT.
II. Iseult of Ireland.
TRISTRAM AND ISEULT.
III. Iseult of Brittany.
SAINT BRANDAN.
THE NECKAN.
THE FORSAKEN MERMAN.
SONNETS.
AUSTERITY OF POETRY.
A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD.
RACHEL.
I.
II.
III.
WORLDLY PLACE.
EAST LONDON.
WEST LONDON.
EAST AND WEST.
THE BETTER PART.
THE DIVINITY.
IMMORTALITY.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID.
MONICA’S LAST PRAYER.[11]
LYRIC AND DRAMATIC POEMS.
SWITZERLAND.
I. MEETING.
II. PARTING.
III. A FAREWELL.
IV. ISOLATION. TO MARGUERITE.
V. TO MARGUERITE. CONTINUED.
VI. ABSENCE.
VII. THE TERRACE AT BERNE.
THE STRAYED REVELLER.
FRAGMENT OF AN “ANTIGONE.”
FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A “DEJANEIRA.”
EARLY DEATH AND FAME.
PHILOMELA.
URANIA.
EUPHROSYNE.
CALAIS SANDS.
FADED LEAVES.
I. THE RIVER.
II. TOO LATE
III. SEPARATION.
IV. ON THE RHINE.
V. LONGING.
DESPONDENCY.
SELF-DECEPTION.
DOVER BEACH.
GROWING OLD.
THE PROGRESS OF POESY. A VARIATION.
PIS ALLER.
THE LAST WORD.
A NAMELESS EPITAPH.
EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA. A DRAMATIC POEM.
PERSONS.
ACT I.
Scene I.—Morning. A Pass in the forest region of Etna.
Scene II.—Noon. A Glen on the highest skirts of the woody region of Etna.
ACT II. Evening. The Summit of Etna.
BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE.
I.
II.
EPILOGUE TO LESSING’S LAOCOÖN.
PERSISTENCY OF POETRY.
A CAUTION TO POETS.
THE YOUTH OF NATURE.
THE YOUTH OF MAN.
PALLADIUM.
PROGRESS.
REVOLUTIONS.
SELF-DEPENDENCE.
MORALITY.
A SUMMER NIGHT.
THE BURIED LIFE.
LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
A WISH.
THE FUTURE.
ELEGIAC POEMS.
THE SCHOLAR-GYPSY.[17]
THYRSIS.[18]
MEMORIAL VERSES.
STANZAS.
STANZAS FROM CARNAC.
A SOUTHERN NIGHT.
HAWORTH CHURCHYARD.
EPILOGUE.
RUGBY CHAPEL. NOVEMBER, 1857.
HEINE’S GRAVE.
STANZAS FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE.
STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN.[26]
OBERMANN ONCE MORE.
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