Matthew Arnold

(1822-1888 / Middlesex / England)

poet Matthew Arnold
#193 on top 500 poets

Matthew Arnold Poems

1. A Dream 4/2/2010
2. A Summer Night 4/2/2010
3. A Wish 12/31/2002
4. Absence 4/2/2010
5. Apollo Musagetes 5/6/2001
6. Austerity Of Poetry 4/2/2010
7. Bacchanalia 1/3/2003
8. Cadmus And Harmonia 5/6/2001
9. Consolation 5/6/2001
10. Desire 4/2/2010
11. Dover Beach 5/6/2001
12. East London 12/31/2002
13. Epilogue To Lessing's Laocooen 4/2/2010
14. From The Hymn Of Empedocles 5/6/2001
15. Geist's Grave 4/2/2010
16. Growing Old 12/31/2002
17. Hayeswater 12/31/2002
18. Human Life 4/2/2010
19. Immortality 5/6/2001
20. Isolation: To Marguerite 5/6/2001
21. Kaiser Dead 4/2/2010
22. Lines Written In Kensington Gardens 5/6/2001
23. Longing 12/31/2002
24. Memorial Verses 5/6/2001
25. Morality 5/6/2001
26. Mycerinus 5/6/2001
27. Obermann Once More 5/6/2001
28. Palladium 5/6/2001
29. Philomela 5/6/2001
30. Progress 1/1/2004
31. Quiet Work 5/6/2001
32. Requiescat 5/6/2001
33. Revolutions 4/2/2010
34. Rugby Chapel 5/6/2001
35. Saint Brandan 4/2/2010
36. Self-Dependence 5/6/2001
37. Shakespeare 5/6/2001
38. Sohrab And Rustum 12/31/2002
39. Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse 5/6/2001
40. The Better Part 4/2/2010

Comments about Matthew Arnold

  • Subhas Chandra Chakra Subhas Chandra Chakra (8/20/2017 2:38:00 AM)

    I am a fan of this great poetic personality.

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  • Bernard Kennedy Bernard Kennedy (10/3/2016 7:16:00 AM)

    Beautiful-winsome-elegaic.

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  • Matt Ancient Matt Ancient (5/1/2011 3:13:00 PM)

    like his poetries and personality

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  • Janice Wilkins (4/28/2009 5:45:00 PM)

    Dover Beach is one of my favorite things to read and I think it's about a world

    without Faith and God to trust. With God everything is possible. Jan 4-28-09

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  • Daphne Grant (5/21/2007 3:06:00 PM)

    The poem like Dover Beach leads me to think that something happened to embitter the poet. Therefore I feel I should read more about him.
    Daphne Grant

    53 person liked.
    		37 person did not like.
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Best Poem of Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness ...

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Worldly Place

Even in a palace, life may be led well!
So spake the imperial sage, purest of men,
Marcus Aurelius. But the stifling den
Of common life, where, crowded up pell-mell,

Our freedom for a little bread we sell,
And drudge under some foolish master's ken
Who rates us if we peer outside our pen--
Match'd with a palace, is not this a hell?

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