Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold 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. Matthew Arnold dream doe men 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. Matthew Arnold dream pay night Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. Matthew Arnold mock light mind The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Matthew Arnold light moon lying The same heart beats in every human breast. Matthew Arnold breasts beats heart We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily. Matthew Arnold fate god air For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers. Matthew Arnold soul change men He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible. Matthew Arnold speech perfect book For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire. Matthew Arnold stars fire teacher Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Matthew Arnold yew rose quiet To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. Matthew Arnold men life world When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life. Matthew Arnold taught-us eye life In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant. Matthew Arnold lost-ones home class He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. Matthew Arnold lap tears art We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. Matthew Arnold soul fire heart Saw life steadily and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold whole-life saws life Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Matthew Arnold incomplete science-and-religion philosophy Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. Matthew Arnold light strong children Not deep the poet sees, but wide. Matthew Arnold wide poet Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare. Matthew Arnold genius energy may
