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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, ESQ., ON SEEING HIS PICTURE ..., by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artist, whose hand with horror wing'd, hath torn Last Line: Know thou the worst. So much, not more, he can.' Subject(s): Abstinence; Caricature & Caricaturists; Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) | |||
ON SEEING FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS PICTURE OF 'THE BOTTLE', IN THE COUNTRY ARTIST, whose hand, with horror wing'd, hath torn From the rank life of towns this leaf: and flung The prodigy of full-blown crime among Valleys and men to middle fortune born, Not innocent, indeed, yet not forlorn: Say, what shall calm us, when such guests intrude, Like comets on the heavenly solitude? Shall breathless glades, cheer'd by shy Dian's horn, Cold-bubbling springs, or caves? Not so! The Soul Breasts her own griefs: and, urg'd too fiercely, says: 'Why tremble? True, the nobleness of man May be by man effac'd: man can control To pain, to death, the bent of his own days. Know thou the worst. So much, not more, he can.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM by MATTHEW ARNOLD GEIST'S GRAVE by MATTHEW ARNOLD HAWORTH CHURCHYARD by MATTHEW ARNOLD LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS by MATTHEW ARNOLD MEMORIAL VERSES by MATTHEW ARNOLD |
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