"The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair" in this 1867 Matthew Arnold Poem
The opening stanza reads "The 
sea is calm to-night/ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ / Come... [DOC] [TLE] Summary - MCLDSYS [PAR] Undoubtedly the most parodied of all poems is Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," 
... Arnold turned forty-five in 1867, the year the poem first appeared in print.