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Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum, and other poems

INDEX TO NOTES

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Abbey towers, 192 Ader-baijan, 156 Ægean Isles, 202 Afrasiab, 156 Agog, 188 Ajax, 189 Alcmena's dreadful son, 182 All red ... bathed in foam, 170 Aloof he sits, etc., 159 And that ... more, 169 Ariosto, 192 Arno-vale, 208 Art, 180 Arthur's court, 169 Art thou not Rustum?, 160 Asopus, 181 As some grave Tyrian trader, etc., 202 As when some hunter, etc., 162 At my boy's years, 156 Attruck, 158 Austerity of Poetry, 194 Averse, as Dido did, etc., 200

Bablockhithe, 199 Bagley Wood, 199 Bahrein, 160 Beethoven, 192 Be govern'd, 160 Belgrave Square, 195 Bell, 166 Berkshire moors, 198 Bethnal Green, 195 Blessed sign, 171 Blow a strain the world at last shall heed, 206 Bokhara, 157 Bow'd his head, 161 Breathed on by rural Pan, 178 Broce-liande, 174 Bruited up, 162 Byron, 196 By thy father's head, 160

Cabin'd, 177 Cabool, 159 Caked the sand, 163 Casbin, 157 Centaurs, 181 Chambery, 176 Chancel, 176 Chatelaine, 170 Chian wine, 202 Chiel, 188 Chisell'd broideries, 176 Chorasma, 163 Chorasmian stream, 181 Christ Church hall, 199 Cirque, 172 City of God, 211 Clusters of lonely mounds, 181 Cobham, 187 Common chance, 156 [p.214] Common fight, 156 Consolation, 177 Cool gallery, 177 Corn, 158 Corselet, 162 Corydon, 206 Crest, 161 Cross and recross, 198 Cross the unpermitted ferry's flow, 207 Cruse, 198 Cunning, 162 Curdled, 161

Dais, 176 Dance around the Fyfield elm in May, 199 Dante, 192 Daphnis, 208 Daulis, 185 Dearer to the red jackals, etc., 162 Destiny, 178 Device, 160 Dight, 160 Dingles, 201 Ditty, 207 Dogg'd, 172 Do not we ... await it too? 200 Dover Beach, 183

East London, 195 Empire, 174 Ensham, 207 Epilogue to Lessing's LAOCOON, 191 Erst, 198 Eternal passion! eternal pain! 185 Eurydice, 197 Even clime, 194

Falcon, 159 Fane, 180 Farringford, 187 Faun with torches, 183 Favour'd guest of Circe, 180 Fay, 170 Fay, 174 Fell-fare, 173 Ferghana, 158 Ferment the milk of mares, 157 Fight unknown and in plain arms, 159 Find a father thou hast never seen, 156 First grey of morning fill'd the east, 155 Fix'd, 158 Flowers, 160 Flute his friend, like Orpheus, etc., 207 Foliaged marble forest, 177 Foolish, 195 For a cloud, etc., 161 Fretwork, 176 Frore, 157 Fugitive and gracious light, etc., 208 Full struck, 161

Geist, 188 Geist's Grave, 191 Girl's wiles, 161 Glad, 161 Glancing, 161 Glanvil, 200 Glanvil's book, 198 Glass, 162 Gloom, 210 Godstow Bridge, 199 Goethe, 192 [p.215] Goethe in Weimar sleeps, 196 Go to!, 159 Grand Old Man, 188 Grange, 200 Great Mother, 208 Green isle, 169 Green-muffled, 199 Griffin, 162 Gulls, 173

Hair that red, 164 Haman, 157 Happy Islands, 181 Hark ... sun, 166 Have found, 162 Heap a stately mound, etc., 163 Heaths starr'd with broom, 166 Heats, 194 Hebrides, 164 Hector, 189 Helen, 190 Helm, 161 Helmund, 163 Hera's anger, 181 Heroes, 182 He spoke ... men, 159 Hies, 193 High Midsummer pomps, 206 Hinksey, 199 His long rambles ... ground, 170 Hollow, 161 Holly trees and juniper, 172 Holy Lassa, 177 Holy well, 166 Homer, 193 Homily, 191 Honied nothings, 172 How thick the bursts, etc., 185 Huge world, 178 Human Life, 186 Hurrying fever, 194 Hurst, 198 Hurtling Polar lights, 164 Hydaspes, 161 Hyde Park, 191 Hyphasis, 161

Iacchus, 180 Iberians, 202 I came ... passing wind, 162 I know the Fyfield tree, 207 Ilsley Downs, 204 Incognisable, 186 Indian Caucasus, 159 In his light youth, 194 Inly-written chart, 186 Inviolable shade, 201 Iran, 159 Irk'd, 206 Iron age, 196 Iron coast, 173 Iseult, 169 Is Merlin prisoner, etc., 174 Isolation, 186 Is she not come?, 168 Ivy-cinctured, 179

Jaxartes, 158 Joppa, 164 Joy, 194 Just-pausing Genius, 200

Kai Khosroo, 159 Kaiser Dead, 187 Kalmucks, 158 Kara Kul, 157 Keep, 206 Ken, 195 [p.216] Kept uninfringed my nature's law, 186 Khiva, 157 Khorassan, 158 Kindled, 161 King Marc, 169 Kipchak, 158 Kirghizzes, 158 Kohik, 163 Kuzzaks, 158

Lapithæ, 182 Lasher pass, 199 Launcelot's guest at Joyous Gard, 170 Leads, 177 Leaguer, 171 Leper recollect, 164 Light comer, 206 Like that autumn star, 161 Like that bold Cæsar, 173 Lines Written in Kensington Gardens, 178 Lion's heart, 159 Lions sleeping, 180 Lips that rarely form them now, 191 Lityerses, 208 Loud Tyntagel's hill, 169 Lovely orphan child, 170 Luminous home, 163 Lyoness, 169

Mænad, 183 Mail, 166 Marcus Aurelius, 194 Margaret, 165 Matin-chime, 176 Memorial Verses, 196 Mendelssohn, 192 Midland waters, 202 Milk-barr'd onyx-stones, 181 Miserere Domine, 192 Moon,, 187 Moonstruck knight, 171 Moorghab, 163 Mountain-chalets, 176 Movement, 193 Mozart, 192 Muses, 180 My princess ... good night, 171

Needs must I lose them, etc., 206 Never was that field lost or that foe saved, 160 New bathed stars, 163 Northern Sir, 163 Nymphs, 180

O'er ... sea, 169 Of age and looks, etc., 162 Old-world Breton history, 173 Once pass'd I blindfold here, 205 One lesson, 193 One slight helpless girl, 159 On that day, 163 Orgunje, 163 Orpheus, 197 Outlandish, 199 Oxford towers, 198 Oxus, 155 O wanderer from a Grecian shore, 184

Painter and musician too, 193 Palladium, 189 Palmers, 176 Pamere, 156 [p.217] Pan's flute music, 180 Passing weary, 175 Pausanias, 191 Pelion, 181 Pen-bryn's bold bard, 187 Peran-Wisa, 156 Persepolis, 163 Persian King, 157 Perused, 160 Petrarch, 192 Philomela, 184 Phoebus-guarded ground, 191 Piping a ditty sad for Bion's fate, 206 Pleasaunce-walks, 169 Posting here and there, 173 Potsdam, 188 Prick'd upon this arm, etc., 162 Prickers, 176 Prie-dieu, 173 Priest, 166 Prince Alexander, 174 Prore, 186 Proserpine, 207

Quiet Work, 193

Range, 180 Raphael, 192 Rates, 195 Recks not, 171 Red-fruited yew tree, 200 Reed, 205 Remember all thy valour, 161 Requiescat, 177 Ride, 192 Right for the polar star, 163 Roman Emperor, 171 Rotha, 197 Rout, 180 Rugby Chapel, 209 Rustum!, 161

Sackcloth, 194 Saint Brandan, 164 Samarcand, 156 Sandford, 207 Sate, 159 Savoy, 176 Sconce, 172 Scythian ... embers, 181 Seal'd, 166 Secret in his breast, 171 See what the day brings, 180 Seistan, 156 Self-Dependence, 190 Self-murder, 164 Seneschal, 173 Shakespeare, 193 Shakespeare, 193 She knew each lily white which Enna yields, etc., 207 She knew the Dorian water's gush divine, 207 She loved the Dorian pipe, etc., 207 Shepherd-pipe, 205 Shore, 161 Sibylla's name, 204 Silenus, 183 Silly, 206 Simois, 189 Skye, 188 Snow-haired Zal, 159 Soft sheep, 208 Soft Sicily, 202 Sohrab and Rustum, 149 Sole, 162 Son of Italy, 194 [p.218] Sophocles, 183 So ... So ..., 206 Soudan, 174 South, 192 Spitalfields, 195 Sprent, 208 Stagshorn, 173 Stem, 186 Stranger-knight, ill-starr'd, 170 Strange unloved uproar, 178 Style, 162 Sunk, 156 Sun sparkled, etc., 161 Swains, 206 Syrtes, 202

Tagg'd, 199 Tale, 160 Tartar camp, 155 Tasso, 192 Teen, 200 Tejend, 163 That old king, 162 That sweet city with her dreaming spires, 205 Thebes, 181 The Church of Brou, 176 The Forsaken Merman, 165 The Last Word, 188 There, go! etc., 157 The Scholar-Gipsy, 197 Thessaly, 199 The Strayed Reveller, 179 Thine absent master, 191 Thou had'st one aim, etc., 200 Thou hast not lived, 200 Thou possessest an immortal lot etc., 200 Thou wilt not fright me so, 160 Thracian wild, 184 Thyrsis, 203 Tiresias, 181 Titans, 196 To a boon ... country he has fled, 208 Too clear web, etc., 185 Toorkmuns, 158 Tower'd, 160 Transept, 176 Tried, 160 Tristram and Iseult, 167 Troy, 182 Tukas, 158 Tunnies, 202 Tyntagel, 169

Ulysses, 180 Unconscious hand, 162 Unknown sea, 182 Unnatural, 161

Vacant, 192 Vale, 204 Vast, 160 Vasty, 177 Vaunt, 160 Virgilian cry, 191

Wanders, 169 Wattled cotes, 198 Weirs, 204 Welcomed here, 170 Western straits, 202 West London, 195 What boots it, 171 What endless active life, 178 What foul fiend rides thee?, 171 [p.219] Whether that ... or in some quarrel, 157 Which much to have tried, etc., 200 Wild white horses, 165 Wimple, 174 With a bitter smile, etc., 161 With blossoms red and white, 206 Wordsworth, 192 Worldly Place, 194 Wrack, 161 Wychwood bowers, 199 Wytham flats, 207

Xanthus, 189

Yellow Tiber, 177 Yes, 187 Youth's Agitations, 194

Zal, 157 Zirrah, 163

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