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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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• 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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• 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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• Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Trying, Christ

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.406, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Expression, Class, Mind

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “English Literature and Irish Politics”, p.168, University of Michigan Press

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• Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Philosophy, Science And Religion, Incomplete

  'Essays in Criticism' Second Series (1888) 'The Study of Poetry'

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Dark, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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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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• 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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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Faith, Night, Wind

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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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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• But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Wish, Poor

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.180

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• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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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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• All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
  All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
  Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Success, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1854). “Poems”, p.226

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• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Perfection, Reason

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1

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• ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Thee

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 80

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• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

  Matthew Arnold

  Air, Whispering, Rooms

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Night, Pay

  'Faded Leaves' (1855) no. 5 (first published, 1852, as 'Longing')

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• And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dust, Soul, Each Day

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• The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teaching, Discipline, May

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.137

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hope, Impossible, Standing Alone

  'A Summer Night' l. 68

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• Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, Morality, Certain

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.11

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