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Category Archives: Arnold Matthew
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless sadness o’er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know, we know that we can smile! … Continue reading
Morality by Matthew Arnold
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will’d Can be through hours of gloom fulfill’d. With aching … Continue reading
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse by Matthew Arnold
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from Saint Laurent goes. The bridge is cross’d, and slow we ride, Through forest, up the mountain-side. The autumnal evening darkens … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, belief, Christianity, death, doubt, faith, industrial, irrationality, Matthew Arnold, monasticism, monateries, monks, mountains, pleasure, poem, poetry, rationality, religion, Romanticism, Russell Boyle, science, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, stream, Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused, trek, Victorian, writing
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight. 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Dover Beach, human, Matthew Arnold, misery, poem, poetry, Russell Boyle, the moon lies fair, The sea is calm tonight, The tide is full, writing
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