Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Cloughwas an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham College, Cambridge...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 January 1819
world facts enough
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
faithful helping fidelity
Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.
moving gondolas delicious
Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?
two league long
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
sweet boys men
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.
eye men years
Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.
heart doe quitting
O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!
idols may currency
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
struggle enemy vain
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.
fields providence my-friends
There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.
summer rain heart
Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.
doubt juxtaposition prophet
Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.
tired light land
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!
people pleasure horrible
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.