The speaker of this poem invokes "Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair" in describing how "weothers pine, and wish the long unhappy dream would end, and waive all claim to bliss." The speaker of thispoem says, "Thou hadst one aim, one business, one desire: else wert thou long since numbered with thedead," in reference to the title character, who averts "this strange disease of modern life" and perpetuallywaits for "the spark from Heaven." A passage in "Glanvil's book" describes the title student of this poem,who leaves Oxford to join a band of Roma. For 10 points, name this poem by Matthew Arnold.
The speaker of this poem invokes "Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair" in describing how "weothers pine, and wish the long unhappy dream would end, and waive all claim to bliss." The speaker of thispoem says, "Thou hadst one aim, one business, one desire: else wert thou long since numbered with thedead," in reference to the title character, who averts "this strange disease of modern life" and perpetuallywaits for "the spark from Heaven." A passage in "Glanvil's book" describes the title student of this poem,who leaves Oxford to join a band of Roma. For 10 points, name this poem by Matthew Arnold.
The speaker of this poem invokes "Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair" in describing how "weothers pine, and wish the long unhappy dream would end, and waive all claim to bliss.
"The Scholar-Gipsy"