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Matthew Arnold (1822–88).  The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867.  1909.
 
New Poems, 1867
A Caution to Poets
 
[First published 1867.]

WHAT poets feel not, when they make,
  A pleasure in creating,
The world, in its turn, will not take
  Pleasure in contemplating.
 
 
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