Quote #66
Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes?
More from Matthew Arnold
- So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.
- The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe, Returning home on summer-nights, have met Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, Trailing…
- We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
- Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose…
- Thou hast no right to bliss.
- And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.