P O E M S BY MATTHEW ARNOLD.

NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION. NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., No. 13 Astor Place.

CONTENTS.

EARLY POEMS.

PAGE

Sonnets:—

Quiet Work"1

To a Friend"2

Shakspeare"2

Written in Emerson’s Essays"3

Written in Butler’s Sermons"3

To the Duke of Wellington"4

“In Harmony with Nature”5

To George Cruikshank"5

To a Republican Friend, 1848"6

Continued"7

Religious Isolation"7

Mycerinus8

The Church of Brou:—

I. The Castle"12

II. The Church"16

III. The Tomb"18

A Modern Sappho19

Requiescat21

Youth and Calm22

A Memory-Picture23

The New Sirens25

The Voice34

Youth’s Agitations36

The World’s Triumphs36

Stagirius37

Human Life39

To a Gypsy Child by the Seashore40

A Question43

In Utrumque Paratus43

The World and the Quietist45

The Second Best46

Consolation47

Resignation49

NARRATIVE POEMS.

Sohrab and Rustum59

The Sick King in Bokhara86

Balder Dead:—

I. Sending"94

II. Journey to the Dead"104

III. Funeral"114

Tristram and Iseult:—

I. Tristram"131

II. Iseult of Ireland"143

III. Iseult of Brittany"150

Saint Brandan157

The Neckan160

The Forsaken Merman162

SONNETS.

Austerity of Poetry167

A Picture at Newstead167

Rachel: I., II., III168

Worldly Place170

East London170

West London171

East and West171

The Better Part172

The Divinity172

Immortality173

The Good Shepherd with the Kid173

Monica’s Last Prayer174

LYRIC AND DRAMATIC POEMS.

Switzerland

I. Meeting"175

II. Parting"176

III. A Farewell"179

IV. Isolation. To Marguerite"182

V. To Marguerite. Continued"183

VI. Absence"184

VII. The Terrace at Berne"185

The Strayed Reveller187

Fragment of an “Antigone”197

Fragment of Chorus of a “Dejaneira”201

Early Death and Fame202

Philomela202

Urania204

Euphrosyne205

Calais Sands206

Faded Leaves:—

I. The River"207

II. Too Late"208

III. Separation"208

IV. On the Rhine"209

V. Longing"209

Despondency210

Self-Deception210

Dover Beach211

Growing Old213

The Progress of Poesy214

Pis Aller214

The Last Word215

A Nameless Epitaph215

Empedocles on Etna216

Bacchanalia; or, The New Age254

Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoön258

Persistency of Poetry264

A Caution to Poets264

The Youth of Nature265

The Youth of Man269

Palladium273

Progress273

Revolutions275

Self-Dependence276

Morality277

A Summer Night278

The Buried Life281

Lines written in Kensington Gardens284

A Wish286

The Future288

ELEGIAC POEMS.

The Scholar-Gypsy291

Thyrsis299

Memorial Verses307

Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan310

Stanzas from Carnac311

A Southern Night312

Haworth Churchyard317

Epilogue321

Rugby Chapel321

Heine’s Grave328

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse335

Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”342

Obermann Once More348

Notes361