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Matthew Arnold
1822 - 1888
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Dover Beach
The sea is calm tonight. / The tide is full, the moon lies fair / Upon the straits; on the French coast, the light
Early Death And Fame
For him who must see many years, / I praise the life which slips away / Out of the light and mutely; which avoids
East And West
In the bare midst of Anglesey they show / Two springs which close by one another play, / And, ‘Thirteen hundred years agone,’ they say,
East London
’Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead / Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, / And the pale weaver, through his windows seen
Empedocles On Etna - A Dramatic Poem
PERSONS: / EMPEDOCLES. / PAUSANIAS, a Physician.
Epilogue To Lessing’s Laocoön
One Morn as through Hyde Park we walk’d. / My friend and I, by chance we talk’d / Of Lessing’s famed Laocoön;
Excuse
I too have suffer’d: yet I know / She is not cold, though she seems so: / She is not cold, she is not light;
Faded Leaves
I / THE RIVER / Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat
Fragment Of An ‘Antigone’
THE CHORUS / Well hath he done who hath seiz’d happiness. / For little do the all-containing Hours,
Fragment Of Chorus Of A Dejaneira
O frivolous mind of man, / Light ignorance, and hurrying, unsure thoughts, / Though man bewails you not,
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