Matthew Arnold

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Matthew Arnold Poems

• Journey To The Dead
  Forth from the East, up the ascent of Heaven,
  Day drove his courser with the Shining Mane;
  And in Valhalla, from his gable perch,
  The golden-crested Cock began to crow: ...
• Funeral
  The gods held talk together, group'd in knots,
  Round Balder's corpse, which they had thither borne;
  And Hermod came down towards them from the gate.
  And Lok, the Father of the Serpent, first ...
• The Last Glen
  Hist! once more!
  Listen, Pausanias!--Aye, 'tis Callicles!
  I know those notes among a thousand. Hark!
  ...
• Typho
  He advances to the edge of the crater. Smoke and fire break forth with a loud noise, and CALLICLES is heard below singing:
  
  
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• Marsyas
  CALLICLES (from below)
  
  
  As the sky-brightening south-wind clears the day, ...

Matthew Arnold Quotes

• Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
• Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
• Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
• It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Comments about Matthew Arnold

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