Arts & Sciences
Persistency of Poetry
From Lyric Poems
Arts & Sciences
Though the Muse be gone away,
Though she move not earth to-day,
Souls, erewhile who caught her word,
Ah! still harp on what they heard.
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Codex Note
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Macmillan, 1891)
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Arnold, Matthew. “Persistency of Poetry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/arnold/83/.
Chicago
Arnold, Matthew. “Persistency of Poetry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/arnold/83/.
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