Bacchanalia or The New Age (Matthew Arnold Poems)
IThe evening comes, the fields are still.The tinkle of the thirsty rill,Unheard all day, ascends again;Deserted is the half-mown plain,Silent ...
IThe evening comes, the fields are still.The tinkle of the thirsty rill,Unheard all day, ascends again;Deserted is the half-mown plain,Silent ...
AN hour ago the music at the wood,And the low chant of waves came o'er the glade,But now no murmur ...
For a while the salt brine leaves me O'er my terraced rocks to fall,And my broad swift-gliding waters Olden memories recall.Ere the ...
How has New England's romance fled,Even as a vision of the morning!Its rites foredone, its guardians dead,Its priestesses, bereft of ...
The sun has gone down, spreading wide onThe sky-line one ray of red fire ;Prepare the soft cushions ...
Haunted by unknown feet-Ways of the midnight hour!Strangely you murmur below me,Strange is your half-silent power.Places of life and of ...
The sea is calm to-night.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;—on the French coast the lightGleams and ...
I.Shall we roam, my love,To the twilight grove,When the moon is rising bright;Oh, I'll whisper there,In the cool night-air,What I ...
O moon, large golden summer moon, Hanging between the linden trees, Which in the intermittent breezeBeat with the rhythmic pulse of June!O ...
'Twas a brave old spot, and deep was the shadeBy the fast-locked boughs of the elm-trees made,Where the sun scarce ...
I love this byre. Shadows are kindly here.The light is flecked with travelling stars of dust,So quiet it seems after ...
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you ...
I have put on my great coat it is cold. It is an outer garment. Coarse, woolen. Of unknown origin. ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The evening comes, the fields are still. The tinkle of the thirsty rill, Unheard all day, ascends again; Deserted is ...
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow ...
WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was ...
There are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing, And lamps from every casement shown; While voices blithe within are ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
The fervent, pale-faced Mother ere she sleep, Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted square, The beautiful bare trees, the blue night-air, ...
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