Matthew Arnold
1822–1888
Best-known poems
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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 … -
The Scholar-Gipsy
Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill;
Go, Shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes:
No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed, … -
The Forsaken Merman
come, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below.
Now my brothers call from the bay; …
All poems (16)
- DesireThou, who dost dwell alone;
- Dover BeachThe Sea is calm to-night.
- Early JuneFrom “Thyrsis”
- From the Hymn of Empedoclesis it so small a thing
- LongingCome to me in my dreams, and then
- Memorial VersesApril, 1860
- OxusFrom “Sohrab and Rustum”
- PhilomenaHark! ah, the nightingale!
- RequiescatStrew on her roses, roses,
- ShakespeareOthers abide our question. Thou art free.
- The Forsaken Mermancome, dear children, let us away;
- The Good Shepherd with the KidHe saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save.
- The Scholar-GipsyGo, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill;
- The Song of CalliclesThrough the black, rushing smoke-bursts,
- The World and the Quietist“WHY, when the world’s great mind
- To MargueriteYes: in the sea of life enisled,
