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Matthew Arnold was an English poet, born on December 24, 1822, and died on April 15, 1888. His poetry is known for its profound philosophy and admiration for nature.

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“Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.”

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Book:Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma

Source: Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma

“Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.”

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“Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.”

Men World Doe Dream Aim Welfare Self-importance

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”

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Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.”

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Book:New poems

Source: New poems

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

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Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

About the Author

Born: December 24, 1822
Died: April 15, 1888
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 252

Books & Sources

Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)Related source material

Dover Beach and Other PoemsRelated source material

New poemsRelated source material

Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other WritingsRelated source material

Culture and AnarchyRelated source material

Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the BibleRelated source material

PoemsRelated source material

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social CriticismRelated source material

Essays in CriticismRelated source material

Poetry and Criticism of Matthew ArnoldRelated source material

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