English poet & critic (1822-1888)
The hour, whose happy
Unalloy'd moments
I would eternalise,
Ten thousand mourners
Well pleased see end.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"Consolation"
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture and Anarchy
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Literature & Dogma
The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture and Anarchy
Calm soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"
Yes: in the sea of life enisl'd,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis"
But thou, my son, study to make prevail
One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Merope
I knew the mass of men conceal'd
Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
They would by other men be met
With blank indifference.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"The Buried Life"
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control,
His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"Resignation"