And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, in the fields of...
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold was a prominent English poet and literary critic of the Victorian era. He was born on December 24, 1822, in Laleham, Middlesex, England, and passed away on April 15, 1888, in Liverpool. Arnold is known for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy), the “Philistines” (the commercial middle class), and the “Populace” . |
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffusedWith rain, where thick the crocus blows,Past the dark forges long...
Yes! in the sea of life enisled,With echoing straits between us thrown,Dotting the shoreless...
Hark! ah, the nightingale—The tawny-throated!Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst!What triumph! hark!—what...
In his cool hall, with haggard eyes,The Roman noble lay;He drove abroad, in furious...
A region desolate and wild.Black, chafing water: and afloat,And lonely as a truant childIn...
A wanderer is man from his birth.He was born in a shipOn the breast...
Strew on her roses, roses,And never a spray of yew!In quiet she reposes;Ah, would...
‘Twas August, and the fierce sun overheadSmote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green,And...
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,Long since, saw Byron’s struggle cease.But one such death...