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Poem by Matthew Arnold


Youth's Agitations


When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence,
From this poor present self which I am now;
When youth has done its tedious vain expense
Of passions that for ever ebb and flow;

Shall I not joy youth's heats are left behind,
And breathe more happy in an even clime ?--
Ah no, for then I shall begin to find
A thousand virtues in this hated time!

Then I shall wish its agitations back,
And all its thwarting currents of desire;
Then I shall praise the heat which then I lack,
And call this hurrying fever, generous fire;

And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common--discontent. 



Matthew Arnold


Matthew Arnold's other poems:
  1. Religious Isolation
  2. Stanzas Composed at Carnac
  3. Heine’s Grave
  4. Written in Butler’s Sermons
  5. “In Harmony with Nature”


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