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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-01-01 11:14 pm

Potential Titles: Matthew Arnold

Our war of mocking words - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

In the world's most crowded streets - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

A thirst to spend our fire - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

And demand of all the thousand nothings - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

The light gleams and is gone - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

The grating roar of pebbles - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Lie before us like a land of dreams - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Where ignorant armies clash by night - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Where the salt weed sways - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

A ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

The heart can bind itself alone - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Which never yet without remorse - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Haunt the place where passions reign - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

To hang over Endymion's sleep - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

From isolation without end - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Cold hearts and thankless tongues - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Splintered the silver arrows of the moon - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Which in every wind is blown - Matthew Arnold "Quiet Work"

Though never winds have whispered it - Matthew Arnold "Religious Isolation"

And never a spray of yew - Matthew Arnold "Requiescat"

In mazes of heat and sound - Matthew Arnold "Requiescat"

Who made the roots of trees his bed - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"

With furtive step and cheek of flame - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"

The foundations of that shadowy throne - Matthew Arnold "Written in Butler's Sermons"

The world smiled and passed by - Matthew Arnold "Written in Emerson's Essays"


Poet's works at Project Gutenberg.


Poet's page at poets.org.


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