Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Printer errors have been corrected, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book . The author's spelling has been retained. POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD First Complete Edition printed September 1890. Reprinted November and December 1890. July 1891. POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1891 All rights reserved CONTENTS EARLY POEMS Sonnets — PAGE Quiet Work 1 To a Friend 2 Shakespeare 2 Written in Emerson's Essays 3 Written in Butler's Sermons 4 To the Duke of Wellington 4 In Harmony With Nature 5 To George Cruikshank 6 To a Republican Friend, 1848 6 Continued 7 Religious Isolation 8 Mycerinus 8 The Church of Brou I. The Castle 13 II. The Church 17 III. The Tomb 18 A Modern Sappho 20 Requiescat 21 Youth and Calm 22 A Memory-Picture 23 A Dream 25 The New Sirens 26 The Voice 36 Youth's Agitations 37 The World's Triumphs 38 Stagirius 38 Human Life 40 To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-shore 41 A Question 44 In Utrumque Paratus 45 The World and the Quietist 46 Horatian Echo 47 The Second Best 49 Consolation 50 Resignation 52 NARRATIVE POEMS Sohrab and Rustum 65 The Sick King in Bokhara 92 Balder Dead— 1. Sending 101 2. Journey To the Dead 111 3. Funeral 121 Tristram and Iseult Tristram 138 Iseult of Ireland 150 Iseult of Brittany 158 Saint Brandan 165 The Neckan 167 The Forsaken Merman 170 SONNETS Austerity of Poetry 177 A Picture at Newstead 177 Rachel : I, II, III 178 Worldly Place 180 East London 180 West London 181 East and West 181 The Better Part 182 The Divinity 183 Immortality 183 The Good Shepherd with the Kid 184 Monica's Last Prayer 184 LYRIC POEMS Switzerland 1. Meeting 189 2. Parting 189 3. A Farewell 192 4. Isolation. To Marguerite 195 5. To Marguerite—Continued 197 6. Absence 198 7. The Terrace at Berne 199 The Strayed Reveller 201 Fragment of an "Antigone" 211 Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira" 214 Early Death and Fame 215 Philomela 216 Urania 217 Euphrosyne 218 Calais Sands 219 Faded Leaves 1. The River 221 2. Too Late 222 3. Separation 222 4. On the Rhine 223 5. Longing 224 Despondency 224 Self-Deception 225 Dover Beach 226 Growing Old 227 The Progress of Poesy 228 New Rome 229 Pis-Aller 230 The Last Word…