Matthew Arnold. 1909. The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867

And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night.

—Dover Beach, ll. 35–7.

Matthew
Arnold

The Poems of Matthew Arnold

1840–1867

Matthew Arnold

While Arnold’s place among the great Victorian authors was solidified by his prose, his verse represents a bridge to the Modern era.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Introduction Bibliographical Note

LONDON, NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1909
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

Author’s Preface, 1853 Advertisement to the Second Edition, 1854 Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, 1840 Cromwell: A Prize Poem, 1843 Horatian Echo, 1847 Sonnet to the Hungarian Nation, 1849 The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. By A. 1849 Sonnet Mycerinus Sonnet. To a Friend The Strayed Reveller Fragment of an ‘Antigone’ The Sick King in Bokhara Sonnets— Shakespeare To the Duke of Wellington Written in Butler’s Sermons Written in Emerson’s Essays To an Independent Preacher To George Cruikshank, Esq. To a Republican Friend To a Republican Friend (Continued) Religious Isolation To my Friends A Modern Sappho The New Sirens The Voice To Fausta Desire Stanzas on a Gipsy Child by the Sea-shore The Hayswater Boat The Forsaken Merman The World and the Quietist In utrumque paratus Resignation Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. By A. 1852 Empedocles on Etna Act I. Scene I Act I. Scene II Act II Poems:— The River Excuse Indifference Too Late On the Rhine Longing The Lake Parting Absence Destiny To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis Human Life Despondency Youth’s Agitations Self-Deception Lines written by a Death-Bed Tristram and Iseult I. Tristram II. Iseult of Ireland III. Iseult of Brittany Memorial Verses Courage Self-Dependence A Summer Night The Buried Life A Farewell Obermann Consolation Lines written in Kensington Gardens The World’s Triumphs The Second Best Revolutions The Youth of Nature The Youth of Man Morality Progress The Future Poems; A New Edition. 1853 Sohrab and Rustum. An Episode Philomela Thekla’s Answer The Church of Brou I. The Castle II. The Church III. The Tomb The Neckan A Dream Requiescat The Scholar Gipsy Stanzas in Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq. Poems, Second Series, 1855 Balder Dead. An Episode I. Sending II. Journey to The Dead III. Funeral Separation Two Poems from Magazines, 1855 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse Haworth Churchyard, April, 1855 Poems, Third Edition, 1857 To Marguerite Merope. A Tragedy. 1858 Preface Historical Introduction Merope Poems from Magazines, 1860–1866 Men of Genius Saint Brandan A Southern Night Thyrsis New Poems, 1867 A Picture at Newstead Rachel East London West London Anti-Desperation Immortality Worldly Place The Divinity The Good Shepherd with the Kid Austerity of Poetry East and West Monica’s Last Prayer Calais Sands Dover Beach The Terrace at Berne Stanzas composed at Carnac Fragment of Chorus of a Dejaneira Palladium Early Death and Fame Youth and Calm Growing Old The Progress of Poesy A Nameless Epitaph The Last Word A Wish A Caution to Poets Pis-Aller Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoön Bacchanalia; Or, The New Age Rugby Chapel Heine’s Grave Obermann once more

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