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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

Matthew Arnold

Bird, Tree, Dawn

'Parting' (1852) l. 19

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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Matthew Arnold

Men, Saint, World

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

Matthew Arnold

Men, Frozen, World

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Matthew Arnold

Life Is, Obscure

Matthew Arnold (1979). “The Poems of Matthew Arnold”, Longman Publishing Group

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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

Matthew Arnold

Gay, Years, Age

Matthew Arnold (1954). “A selection of his poems”

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The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

Matthew Arnold

Happiness, Joy, Bears

Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

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Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Matthew Arnold

Passion, Light, Culture

1873 Literature and Dogma, preface.

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The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

Matthew Arnold

Gone

'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 57

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He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Matthew Arnold

Book, Perfect, Speech

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Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

Matthew Arnold

Love, Heart, Speak

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

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For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Matthew Arnold

Teacher, Stars, Fire

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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Matthew Arnold

Rose, Yew, Quiet

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

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For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Matthew Arnold

God, Science, Law

Matthew Arnold (1970). “Literature and dogma”, Continuum

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He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

Matthew Arnold

Art, Tears, Lap

Lines on Wordsworth in 'Memorial Verses, April 1850' l. 47

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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Men, World

Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

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I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, Believer

Culture and Anarchy introduction (1869)

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When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Eye, Taught Us

Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

Matthew Arnold

Summer, Lonely, Gay

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

Matthew Arnold

Art, Men, Light

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

Matthew Arnold

Son, Men, Wind

Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Matthew Arnold

Fall, Waiting, Heaven

'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 119

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That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Matthew Arnold

Class, America, England

A Word About America (1882)

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We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Matthew Arnold

Chance, Ill, Ought

Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.24

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Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Matthew Arnold

Energy, Genius, May

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Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Matthew Arnold

Ancient Literature, Want, Sanity

Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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Born: December 24, 1822
Died: April 15, 1888
Occupation: Poet
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