“Have
something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.” - Matthew Arnold
Arnold is sometimes called the third great
Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning. In an 1869 letter to his mother, he wrote:
“My poems represent, on the whole, the main
movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably
have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement
of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it."
“Poetry is simply the most
beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.” For Saturday’s poem, here is Arnold’s,
Longing
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!
Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!
Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
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