Poems by Matthew ArnoldMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1896 - 161 páginas |
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... Oxford in the autumn of 1841 . As an undergraduate he was both distinguished and popular . He won the prize for English verse with a poem on Cromwell , ' and though he did not read hard enough to obtain a first - class in the schools ...
... Oxford in the autumn of 1841 . As an undergraduate he was both distinguished and popular . He won the prize for English verse with a poem on Cromwell , ' and though he did not read hard enough to obtain a first - class in the schools ...
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... Dead and a fresh instalment of poems from the two anonymous volumes . Two years later appeared Merope , a drama on the model of a Greek tragedy . 66 In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford X INTRODUCTION .
... Dead and a fresh instalment of poems from the two anonymous volumes . Two years later appeared Merope , a drama on the model of a Greek tragedy . 66 In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford X INTRODUCTION .
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Matthew Arnold George Campbell Macaulay. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and was re - elected for a second term of five years in 1862 . In 1859 he was sent as Commissioner to inquire into the state of elementary ...
Matthew Arnold George Campbell Macaulay. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and was re - elected for a second term of five years in 1862 . In 1859 he was sent as Commissioner to inquire into the state of elementary ...
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... Oxford's towers . And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book— Come , let me read the oft - read tale again ! The story of the Oxford scholar poor , Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain , Who , tired of knocking at preferment's ...
... Oxford's towers . And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book— Come , let me read the oft - read tale again ! The story of the Oxford scholar poor , Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain , Who , tired of knocking at preferment's ...
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... Oxford halls , And the grave Glanvil did the tale inscribe That thou wert wander'd from the studious walls To learn strange arts , and join a gipsy - tribe ; And thou from earth art gone Long since , and in some quiet churchyard laid ...
... Oxford halls , And the grave Glanvil did the tale inscribe That thou wert wander'd from the studious walls To learn strange arts , and join a gipsy - tribe ; And thou from earth art gone Long since , and in some quiet churchyard laid ...
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Página 65 - 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.
Página 147 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Página 66 - 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 in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Página 54 - For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden, And the gleam of her golden hair. Come away, away, children. Come children, come down. The hoarse wind blows colder; Lights shine in the town.
Página 138 - He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...
Página 66 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Página 52 - Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Página 52 - Where the winds are all asleep ; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam. Where the salt weed sways in the stream, Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground ; 40 Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine ; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye?
Página 83 - At some lone homestead in the Cumner hills, Where at her open door the housewife darns, Thou hast been seen, or hanging on a gate To watch the threshers in the mossy barns. Children, who early range these slopes and late For cresses from the rills...
Página 86 - O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames ; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims...