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=Matthew Arnold= Evie Gekas (1822-1888) Matthew Arnold was born December 24, 1822. Matthew Arnold was a british poet. One of Matthew Arnold's most famous poems is Dover Beach which was published in 1867. Matthew Arnold's father was the Headmaster of the Rugby School. Matthew went to school there and then he was sent to Winchester College. Matthew switched back over to the Rugby School and then he got a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. Matthew graduated in 1844 with a 2nd Class Honours degree in "Greats." In 1849 he publsihed his first poetry book called The Strayed Reveller. Mattew Arnold sadly died on April 15, 1888.

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By Matthew Arnold
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. Come to the window, sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Agean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.