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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

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Author
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
Credits
E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, Carla Foust, J. C. Byers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- 19th century
Category
Text
eBook-No.
27739
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27739
Release Date
January 7, 2009
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber's note — POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD
  2. 2.CONTENTS — EARLY POEMS — NARRATIVE POEMS — SONNETS — LYRIC POEMS — ELEGIAC POEMS — DRAMATIC POEMS — LATER POEMS
  3. 3.EARLY POEMS
  4. 4.SONNETS
  5. 5.QUIET WORK
  6. 6.TO A FRIEND
  7. 7.SHAKESPEARE
  8. 8.WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS
  9. 9.WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS
  10. 10.TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON — ON HEARING HIM MISPRAISED
  11. 11.IN HARMONY WITH NATURE — TO A PREACHER
  12. 12.TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK — ON SEEING, IN THE COUNTRY, HIS PICTURE OF "THE BOTTLE"
  13. 13.TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848
  14. 14.CONTINUED
  15. 15.RELIGIOUS ISOLATION — TO THE SAME FRIEND
  16. 16.MYCERINUS [2]
  17. 17.THE CHURCH OF BROU — I — The Castle — II — The Church — III — The Tomb
  18. 18.A MODERN SAPPHO
  19. 19.REQUIESCAT
  20. 20.YOUTH AND CALM
  21. 21.A MEMORY-PICTURE
  22. 22.A DREAM
  23. 23.THE NEW SIRENS
  24. 24.THE VOICE
  25. 25.YOUTH'S AGITATIONS
  26. 26.THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS
  27. 27.STAGIRIUS [3]
  28. 28.HUMAN LIFE
  29. 29.TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE — DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN
  30. 30.A QUESTION — TO FAUSTA
  31. 31.IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS
  32. 32.THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST — TO CRITIAS
  33. 33.HORATIAN ECHO [4] — (TO AN AMBITIOUS FRIEND)
  34. 34.THE SECOND BEST
  35. 35.CONSOLATION — FOOTNOTE:
  36. 36.RESIGNATION — TO FAUSTA
  37. 37.NARRATIVE POEMS
  38. 38.SOHRAB AND RUSTUM [6] — AN EPISODE
  39. 39.THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA
  40. 40.BALDER DEAD [7]
  41. 41.TRISTRAM AND ISEULT [8]
  42. 42.SAINT BRANDAN
  43. 43.THE NECKAN
  44. 44.THE FORSAKEN MERMAN
  45. 45.SONNETS
  46. 46.AUSTERITY OF POETRY
  47. 47.A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD
  48. 48.RACHEL
  49. 49.WORLDLY PLACE
  50. 50.EAST LONDON
  51. 51.WEST LONDON
  52. 52.EAST AND WEST
  53. 53.THE BETTER PART
  54. 54.THE DIVINITY
  55. 55.IMMORTALITY
  56. 56.THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID
  57. 57.MONICA'S LAST PRAYER [12]
  58. 58.LYRIC POEMS
  59. 59.SWITZERLAND
  60. 60.THE STRAYED REVELLER — THE PORTICO OF CIRCE'S PALACE. EVENING
  61. 61.FRAGMENT OF AN "ANTIGONE"
  62. 62.FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A "DEJANEIRA"
  63. 63.EARLY DEATH AND FAME
  64. 64.PHILOMELA
  65. 65.URANIA
  66. 66.EUPHROSYNE
  67. 67.CALAIS SANDS
  68. 68.FADED LEAVES
  69. 69.DESPONDENCY
  70. 70.SELF-DECEPTION
  71. 71.DOVER BEACH
  72. 72.GROWING OLD
  73. 73.THE PROGRESS OF POESY — A VARIATION
  74. 74.NEW ROME — LINES WRITTEN FOR MISS STORY'S ALBUM
  75. 75.PIS-ALLER
  76. 76.THE LAST WORD
  77. 77.THE LORD'S MESSENGERS
  78. 78.A NAMELESS EPITAPH
  79. 79.BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE
  80. 80.EPILOGUE TO LESSING'S LAOCOÖN
  81. 81.PERSISTENCY OF POETRY
  82. 82.A CAUTION TO POETS
  83. 83.THE YOUTH OF NATURE
  84. 84.THE YOUTH OF MAN
  85. 85.PALLADIUM
  86. 86.PROGRESS
  87. 87.REVOLUTIONS
  88. 88.SELF-DEPENDENCE
  89. 89.MORALITY
  90. 90.A SUMMER NIGHT
  91. 91.THE BURIED LIFE
  92. 92.LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
  93. 93.A WISH
  94. 94.THE FUTURE
  95. 95.ELEGIAC POEMS
  96. 96.THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY [16]
  97. 97.THYRSIS [17] — A Monody , to commemorate the author's friend , Arthur Hugh Clough , who died at Florence , 1861.
  98. 98.MEMORIAL VERSES — APRIL, 1850
  99. 99.STANZAS IN MEMORY OF EDWARD QUILLINAN
  100. 100.STANZAS FROM CARNAC
  101. 101.A SOUTHERN NIGHT
  102. 102.HAWORTH CHURCHYARD — APRIL, 1855
  103. 103.EPILOGUE
  104. 104.RUGBY CHAPEL — November 1857
  105. 105.HEINE'S GRAVE
  106. 106.STANZAS FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE
  107. 107.STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF "OBERMANN" [25] — November , 1849
  108. 108.OBERMANN ONCE MORE — (COMPOSED MANY YEARS AFTER THE PRECEDING) — Savez-vous quelque bien qui console du regret d'un monde?
  109. 109.DRAMATIC POEMS
  110. 110.MEROPE A TRAGEDY — STORY OF THE DRAMA — PERSONS OF THE DRAMA
  111. 111.MEROPE
  112. 112.EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA — A DRAMATIC POEM
  113. 113.ACT I. SCENE I.
  114. 114.SCENE II
  115. 115.ACT II
  116. 116.LATER POEMS
  117. 117.WESTMINSTER ABBEY — July 25, 1881. — ( The Day of Burial, in the Abbey, of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , Dean of Westminster. )
  118. 118.GEIST'S GRAVE — FOOTNOTE:
  119. 119.POOR MATTHIAS
  120. 120.KAISER DEAD — April 6, 1887.
  121. 121.NOTES
  122. 122.MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. — BY THE SAME AUTHOR. — Transcriber's note

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