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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

by Matthew Arnold

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  1. 1Quiet Work
  2. 2To a Friend
  3. 3Shakespeare
  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
  8. 8To George Cruikshank on Seeing, in the Country, His Picture of “The…
  9. 9To a Republican Friend, 1848
  10. 10Continued
  11. 11Religious Isolation
  12. 12Mycerinus
  13. 13The Church of Brou
  14. 14A Modern Sappho
  15. 15Requiescat
  16. 16Youth and Calm
  17. 17A Memory-Picture
  18. 18A Dream
  19. 19The New Sirens
  20. 20The Voice
  21. 21Youth’s Agitations
  22. 22The World’s Triumphs
  23. 23Stagirius
  24. 24Human Life
  25. 25To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore
  26. 26A Question to Fausta
  27. 27In Utrumque Paratus
  28. 28The World and the Quietist to Critias
  29. 29Horatian Echo
  30. 30The Second Best
  31. 31Consolation
  32. 32Resignation to Fausta
  33. 33Narrative Poems
  34. 34The Sick King in Bokhara
  35. 35Balder Dead
  36. 36Tristram and Iseult
  37. 37Saint Brandan
  38. 38The Neckan
  39. 39The Forsaken Merman
  40. 40Sonnets
  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. 52Lyric Poems
  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
  67. 67New Rome
  68. 68Pis-Aller
  69. 69The Last Word
  70. 70The Lord’s Messengers
  71. 71A Nameless Epitaph — Bacchanalia; or, the New Age
  72. 72Epilogue — To Lessing’s Laocoön
  73. 73Persistency of Poetry · A Caution to Poets — The Youth of Nature
  74. 74The Youth of Man
  75. 75Palladium
  76. 76Progress
  77. 77Revolutions
  78. 78Self-Dependence
  79. 79Morality
  80. 80A Summer Night
  81. 81The Buried Life
  82. 82Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
  83. 83A Wish
  84. 84The Future
  85. 85Elegiac Poems
  86. 86Thyrsis
  87. 87Memorial Verses
  88. 88Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan
  89. 89Stanzas From Carnac
  90. 90A Southern Night
  91. 91Haworth Churchyard
  92. 92Epilogue
  93. 93Rugby Chapel
  94. 94Heine’s Grave
  95. 95Stanzas From the Grande Chartreuse
  96. 96Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”
  97. 97Obermann Once More
  98. 98Dramatic Poems
  99. 99Merope
  100. 100Empedocles on Etna
  101. 101Scene I
  102. 102Scene II
  103. 103Act II
  104. 104Later Poems
  105. 105Geist’s Grave
  106. 106Poor Matthias
  107. 107Kaiser Dead

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