E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, Carla Foust, J. C. Byers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: Printer errors have been corrected and are listed at the end. The author's spelling has been retained. POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD _First Complete Edition printed September 1890. Reprinted November and December 1890. July 1891._ POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD London MacMillan And Co. and New York 1891 All rights reserved CONTENTS EARLY POEMS SONNETS-- PAGE QUIET WORK 1 TO A FRIEND 2 SHAKESPEARE 2 WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS 3 WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS 4 TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON 4 IN HARMONY WITH NATURE 5 TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 6 TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848 6 CONTINUED 7 RELIGIOUS ISOLATION 8 MYCERINUS 8 THE CHURCH OF BROU-- I. THE CASTLE 13 II. THE CHURCH 17 III. THE TOMB 18 A MODERN SAPPHO 20 REQUIESCAT 21 YOUTH AND CALM 22 A MEMORY-PICTURE 23 A DREAM 25 THE NEW SIRENS 26 THE VOICE 36 YOUTH'S AGITATIONS 37 THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS 38 STAGIRIUS 38 HUMAN LIFE 40 TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE 41 A QUESTION 44 IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS 45 THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST 46 HORATIAN ECHO 47 THE SECOND BEST 49 CONSOLATION 50 RESIGNATION 52 NARRATIVE POEMS SOHRAB AND RUSTUM 65 THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA 92 BALDER DEAD-- 1. SENDING 101 2. JOURNEY TO THE DEAD 111 3. FUNERAL 121 TRISTRAM AND ISEULT-- 1. TRISTRAM 138 2. ISEULT OF IRELAND 150 3. ISEULT OF BRITTANY 158