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Poems of Matthew Arnold

by Matthew Arnold

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  1. 1Quiet Work
  2. 2To a Friend
  3. 3Shakspeare
  4. 4Written in Emerson’s Essays
  5. 5Written in Butler’s Sermons
  6. 6To the Duke of Wellington. on Hearing Him Mispraised
  7. 7In Harmony with Nature. to a Preacher
  8. 8To George Cruikshank. on Seeing, in the Country, His Picture of “Th…
  9. 9To a Republican Friend, 1848
  10. 10Continued
  11. 11Religious Isolation. to the Same Friend
  12. 12Mycerinus
  13. 13The Church of Brou
  14. 14A Modern Sappho
  15. 15Requiescat
  16. 16Youth and Calm
  17. 17A Memory-Picture
  18. 18The New Sirens
  19. 19The Voice
  20. 20Youth’s Agitations
  21. 21The World’s Triumphs
  22. 22Stagirius
  23. 23Human Life
  24. 24To a Gypsy Child by the Seashore; Douglas, Isle of Man
  25. 25A Question. to Fausta
  26. 26In Utrumque Paratus
  27. 27The World and the Quietist. to Critias
  28. 28The Second Best
  29. 29Consolation
  30. 30Resignation. to Fausta
  31. 31Sohrab and Rustum. an Episode
  32. 32The Sick King in Bokhara
  33. 33Balder Dead
  34. 34Tristram and Iseult
  35. 35Tristram and Iseult
  36. 36Tristram and Iseult
  37. 37Saint Brandan
  38. 38The Neckan
  39. 39The Forsaken Merman
  40. 40Austerity of Poetry
  41. 41A Picture at Newstead
  42. 42Rachel
  43. 43Worldly Place
  44. 44East London
  45. 45West London
  46. 46East and West
  47. 47The Better Part
  48. 48The Divinity
  49. 49Immortality
  50. 50The Good Shepherd with the Kid
  51. 51Monica’s Last Prayer
  52. 52Switzerland
  53. 53The Strayed Reveller
  54. 54Fragment of an “Antigone.”
  55. 55Fragment of Chorus of a “Dejaneira.”
  56. 56Early Death and Fame
  57. 57Philomela
  58. 58Urania
  59. 59Euphrosyne
  60. 60Calais Sands
  61. 61Faded Leaves
  62. 62Despondency
  63. 63Self-Deception
  64. 64Dover Beach
  65. 65Growing Old
  66. 66The Progress of Poesy. a Variation
  67. 67Pis Aller
  68. 68The Last Word
  69. 69A Nameless Epitaph — Empedocles on Etna. a Dramatic Poem
  70. 70Act I — Scene I. — Morning. A Pass in the forest region of Etna
  71. 71Act II — Evening. The Summit of Etna
  72. 72Bacchanalia; Or, the New Age
  73. 73Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoön
  74. 74Persistency of Poetry · A Caution to Poets — The Youth of Nature
  75. 75The Youth of Man
  76. 76Palladium
  77. 77Progress
  78. 78Revolutions
  79. 79Self-Dependence
  80. 80Morality
  81. 81A Summer Night
  82. 82The Buried Life
  83. 83Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
  84. 84A Wish
  85. 85The Future
  86. 86The Scholar-Gypsy
  87. 87Thyrsis
  88. 88Memorial Verses
  89. 89Stanzas
  90. 90Stanzas from Carnac
  91. 91A Southern Night
  92. 92Haworth Churchyard
  93. 93Epilogue
  94. 94Rugby Chapel. November, 1857
  95. 95Heine’s Grave
  96. 96Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
  97. 97Stanzas in Memory of the Author of Obermann
  98. 98Obermann Once More

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