POEMS BY MATTHEW ARNOLD. _NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION._ [Illustration: colophon] NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., NO. 13 ASTOR PLACE. CONTENTS. _EARLY POEMS._ PAGE SONNETS:-- Quiet Work 1 To a Friend 2 Shakspeare 2 Written in Emerson’s Essays 3 Written in Butler’s Sermons 3 To the Duke of Wellington 4 “In Harmony with Nature” 5 To George Cruikshank 5 To a Republican Friend, 1848 6 Continued 7 Religious Isolation 7 MYCERINUS 8 THE CHURCH OF BROU:-- I. The Castle 12 II. The Church 16 III. The Tomb 18 A MODERN SAPPHO 19 REQUIESCAT 21 YOUTH AND CALM 22 A MEMORY-PICTURE 23 THE NEW SIRENS 25 THE VOICE 34 YOUTH’S AGITATIONS 36 THE WORLD’S TRIUMPHS 36 STAGIRIUS 37 HUMAN LIFE 39 TO A GYPSY CHILD BY THE SEASHORE 40 A QUESTION 43 IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS 43 THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST 45 THE SECOND BEST 46 CONSOLATION 47 RESIGNATION 49 _NARRATIVE POEMS._ SOHRAB AND RUSTUM 59