Arthur Hugh Clough Poems (28 Poems)
Amours de Voyage, Canto IV (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Eastward, or Northward, or West? I wander and ask as I wander;Weary, yet eager and sure, Where shall I come to my love?Whitherward hasten to seek her? Ye daughters of Italy, tell me,Graceful and tender and dark, is she consorting … Continue reading
Noli Aemulari (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
In controversial foul impurenessThe peace that is thy light to theeQuench not: in faith and inner surenessPossess thy soul and let it be. No violence–perverse–persistent–What cannot be can bring to be;No zeal what is make more existent,And strife but blinds … Continue reading
Perch (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
To spend uncounted years of pain,Again, again, and yet again,In working out in heart and brainThe problem of our being here;To gather facts from far and near,Upon the mind to hold them clear,And, knowing more may yet appear,Unto one’s latest … Continue reading
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? Does there a spirit we know not, though seek, though we find, comprehend not, Here to entice and confuse, tempt … Continue reading
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter earth, Come, let us go,—to a land wherein gods of the old time wandered, Where every breath even now changes … Continue reading
Amours De Voyage, Canto III (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Yet to the wondrous St. Peter’s, and yet to the solemn Rotunda, Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the Vatican Walls, Yet may we go, and recline, while a whole mighty world seems above us, Gathered and fixed to … Continue reading
Spectator ab Extra (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
As I sat in the Caf? I said to myself,They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant … Continue reading
The Latest Decalogue (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Thou shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two? No graven images may be Worshipp’d, except the currency: Swear not at all; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none … Continue reading
Elegiac II. (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Trunks the forest yielded with gums ambrosial oozing, Boughs with apples laden beautiful, Hesperian,Golden, odoriferous, perfume exhaling about them, Orbs in a dark umbrage luminous and radiant;To the palate grateful, more luscious were not in Eden, Or … Continue reading
Say not the Struggle nought Availeth (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain; If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; … Continue reading
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