Matthew Arnold. 1822-1888.
Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
Shakespeare.
Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew!
In quiet she reposes;
Ah, would that I did too!
Requiescat.
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.
Growing Old.
Time may restore us in his course
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force;
But where will Europe's latter hour
Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
Memorial Verses.
Wandering between two worlds,—one dead,
The other powerless to be born.
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.
Essays in Criticism. Heinrich Heine.
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
Culture and Anarchy. P. 8.