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
heart thinking years
Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
suicidal alive strive
Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.
grace given
Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
lying liars dupes
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
military land sun
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.
almost sorrows strike
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.