If it is thou whose casual hand withdraws What it at first as casually did make. Say what amount of ages it will take With tardy rare concurrences of laws, And subtle multiplicities of cause, The thing they once had made us to remake; [awake, May hopes dead slumbering dare to reEen after utmost interval of pause, What revolutions must have passed, before The great celestial cycles shall restore The starry sign whose present hour is gone; What worse than dubious chances interpose. [pose With cloud and sunny gleam to recomThe skiey picture we had gazed upon. BUT if as not by that the soul desired Swayed in the judgment, wisest men have thought And furnishing the evidence it sought, Man's heart hath ever fervently required, And story, for that reason deemed inspired, COME, PO COME, Poet, come! Come, Poet, Whether NOLD EFERENCES ESTIONS s: Poetical Works, 3 volumes; Poetical ame; Selected Poems (Golden Treasury Letters, 2 volumes, see below. * GARNETT ther Arnold, edited by G. W. E. Russell, 2 volumes, st Thomas and Matthew Arnold (Great Educators (W. H. Life of Matthew Arnold, 1887. in the Dictionary of National Biography. SAINTSBURY of Matthew Arnold (Modern English Writers), 1899. PAUL thew Arnold (English Men of Letters Series), 1902. RUSSELL Matthew Arnold (Literary Lives), 1904. REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM *Roscoe (W. C), (F. W. Men I Have Known. CLOUGH (A. H.), Prose Remains egally in the North American Review, July, 1853). es and Essays, Vol. II; The Classical School of English Poetry, MatArnold, 1859. *SWINBURNE, Essays and Studies: Matthew Arnold's Poems (Originally in the Fortnightly Review, October, 1867). FORMazine, September, 1868). AUSTIN (Alfred), The Poetry of the Period WAN (HB) Our Living Poets: Matthew Arnold (Originally in Tinsley's (Originally in Temple Bar, August and September, 1869). WHIPPLE (EP) Recollections: Matthew Arnold, 1887. of BIRRELL (Augustine), Res Judicata; Papers and Essays. BURROUGHS (John), The Light of Day: Spiritual Insight of Matthew Arnold. DowDEN (Edward), Transcripts and Studies. GARNETT (Richard), Essays o an Ex-Librarian. GATES (L. E.), Three Studies in Literature. GATES (L. E.), Studies and Appreciations: The Return of Conventional Life. HARRISON (Frederic), The Choice of Books. HARRISON (Frederic), Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates. HENLEY (W. E.), Views and Reviews. HUDSON (W. H.), Studies in Interpretation. * HUTTON (R. H.), Literary Essays. Modern Guides of English Thought in Matters of Faith. MUSTARD (W. P.), Homeric Echoes in Matthew Arnold's Balder. NENCIONI (E.), Letteratura Inglese. OLIPHANT (Margaret), Victorian Age of English Literature. PAUL (H. W.), Men and Letters: Matthew Arnold's Letters. SAINTSBURY (George), Corrected Impressions. * STEDMAN (E. C.), Victorian Poets. STEPHEN (Leslie), Studies of a Biographer. TRAILL (II. D.), New Fiction and Other Essays on Literary Subjects. *WOODBERRY (G. E.), Makers of Literature. CHENEY (J. V.) The Golden Guess. DAWSON (W. H.), Matthew Arnold and His Relation to the Thought of Our Time. DAWSON (W. J.), Makers of Modern English. DIXON (W. M.) English Poetry: Blake to Browning. DuFF (M. E. G.), Out of the Past. GALTON (A.), Urbana Scripta. GALTON (A.), Two Essays on Matthew Arnold, with Some of His Letters to the Author. MACARTHUR (Henry), Realism and Romance. NADAL (E. S.) Essays at Home and Elsewhere. SELKIRK (J. B.), Ethics and Æsthetics of Modern Poetry: Modern Creeds and Modern Poetry. SHARP (Amy), Victorian Poets. STEARNS (F. P.), Sketches from Concord and Appledore. SWANWICK (A.), Poets the Interpreters of Their Age. WALKER (Hugh), The Great Victorian Poets. TRIBUTES IN VERSE BOURDILLON (F. W.), Sursum Corda: To Matthew Arnold in America. SHAIRP (J. C.), Glen d'Esseray and Other Poems: Balliol Scholars, 18401843; A Remembrance. TRUMAN (Joseph), Afterthoughts: Laleham, a Poem. BIBLIOGRAPHY * SMART (Thomas B.), The Bibliography of Matthew Arnold. ぐ Then come down! She will not come though you call all day; Come away, come away! Children dear, was it yesterday We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Where the salt weed sways in the stream, Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture ground; Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Children dear, was it yesterday sea, And the youngest sate on her knee. She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well, When down swung the sound of a far-off bell. She sigh'd, she look'd up through the clear green sea; moan; Long prayers," I said, "in the world they say; Come!" I said; and we rose through the surf in the bay. We went up the beach, by the sandy down Where the sea-stocks bloom, to the white-wall'd town; Through the narrow paved streets, where all was still, To the little gray church on the windy hill. From the church came a murmur of folk at their prayers, But we stood without in the cold blowing airs. We climb'd on the graves, on the stones worn with rains, |