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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WORLDLY PLACE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in a palace, life may be led well!
Last Line: "the aids to noble life are all within."
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature
First Line: Even in a palace, life may be led well!
Last Line: "the aids to noble life are all within."
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature
Even in a palace, life may be led well!
So spake the imperial sage, purest of men,
Marcus Aurelius. But the stifling den
Of common life, where, crowded up pell-mell,
Our freedom for a little bread we sell,
And drudge under some foolish master's ken
Who rates us if we peer outside our pen --
Match'd with a palace, is not this a hell?
Even in a palace! On his truth sincere,
Who spoke these words, no shadow ever came;
And when my ill-school'd spirit is aflame
Some nobler, ampler stage of life to win,
I'll stop, and say: "There were no succour here!
The aids to noble life are all within."
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