Arthur Hugh Clough

"Cease, empty Faith, the Spectrum saith,     I was, and lo, have been;     I, God, am nought: a shade of thought,     Which, but by darkness see"

"These are the words of Jacobs wives, the words     Which Leah spake and Rachel to his ears,     When, in the shade at eventide, he sat     By"

"To spend uncounted years of pain,     Again, again, and yet again,     In working out in heart and brain     The problem of our being here;"

"On grass, on gravel, in the sun,     Or now beneath the shade,     They went, in pleasant Kensington,     A prentice and a maid.     That Sun"

"It is not sweet content, be sure,     That moves the nobler Muse to song,     Yet when could truth come whole and pure     From hearts that inl"

"Farewell, farewell! Her vans the vessel tries, His iron might the potent engine plies: Haste, winged words, and ere 'tis useless, tell, Farewell, fare"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral IX     Arva, beata Petamus arva!     So on the morrows morrow, with Term-time dread returning,     Philip returned to"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral IV     Ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error     So in the golden weather they waited. But Philip returned not"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral VIII     Jam veniet virgo, jam dicetur hymenus.     But a revulsion again came over the spirit of Elspie,     When s"

"I     To think that men of former days     In naked truth deserved the praise     Which, fain to have in flesh and blood     An image of imagined"

"I dreamed a dream: I dreamt that I espied, Upon a stone that was not rolled aside, A Shadow sit upon a grave, a Shade, As thin, as unsubstantial, as o"

"If, when in cheerless wanderings, dull and cold,     A sense of human kindliness hath found us,     We seem to have around us     An atmosphere"

"Whence comest thou? shady lane, and why and how?     Thou, where with idle heart, ten years ago,     I wandered, and with childhoods paces slow"

"Edward and Jane a married couple were,     And fonder she of him or he of her     Was hard to say; their wedlock had begun     When in one year"

"SCENE I.     The Piazza at Venice, 9 p.m. Dipsychus and the Spirit.     Di. The scene is different, and the place, the air     Tastes of the"

"Old things need not be therefore true,     O brother men, nor yet the new;     Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,     And yet consider"

"Thou shalt have one God only; -who     Would be at the expense of two?     No graven images may be     Worshipped, except the currency:     Sw"

"Say not, the struggle nought availeth,     The labour and the wounds are vain,     The enemy faints not, nor faileth,     And as things have be"

"Across the sea, along the shore, In numbers more and ever more, From lonely hut and busy town, The valley through, the mountain down, What was it ye w"

"Some future day when what is now is not,     When all old faults and follies are forgot,     And thoughts of difference passed like dreams away,"

"What we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear; Ah! did he tell what we are here! A mind for"

""There is no God," the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us It's better only guessing." "There is no God," a"

"But that from slow dissolving pomps of dawn     No verity of slowly strengthening light     Early or late hath issued; that the day     Scarce-"

"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 a"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral     III     Namque canebat uti     So in the golden morning they parted and went to the westward.     And in the cott"

"Thou shalt have one God only; who     Would be at the expense of two?     No graven images may be     Worshipped, except the currency:     Swe"

"Where lies the land to which the ship would go?     Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know.     And where the land she travels from? Away,"

"Is it true, ye gods, who treat us     As the gambling fool is treated;     O ye, who ever cheat us,     And let us feel were cheated!     Is"

"Lips, lips, open!     Up comes a little bird that lives inside     Up comes a little bird, and peeps, and out he flies.     All the day he sit"

"I dreamed a dream: I dreamt that I espied,     Upon a stone that was not rolled aside,     A Shadow sit upon a grave, a Shade,     As thin, as"

"Over a mountain slope with lentisk, and with abounding Arbutus, and the red oak overtufted, 'mid a noontide Now glowing fervidly, the Leto-born, the d"

"If that we thus are guilty doth appear,     Ah, guilty tho we are, grave judges, hear!     Ah, yes; if ever you in your sweet youth     Midst"

"Scene I.     The interior Arcade of the Doges Palace.     Sp. Thunder and rain! O dear, O dear!     But see, a noble shelter here,     This"

"Come back, come back, behold with straining mast     And swelling sail, behold her steaming fast;     With one new sun to see her voyage oer,"

"O stream descending to the sea,     Thy mossy banks between,     The flowrets blow, the grasses grow,     The leafy trees are green.     In"

"O ship, ship, ship,     That travellest over the sea,     What are the tidings, I pray thee,     Thou bearest hither to me?     Are they tidi"

"O, richly soiled and richly sunned,     Exuberant, fervid, and fecund!     Is this the fixed condition     On which may Northern pilgrim come,"

"So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,     I with my secret self held communing of mine own.     So in the southern city spake the tong"

"O only Source of all our light and life,     Whom as our truth, our strength, we see and feel,     But whom the hours of mortal moral strife"

"In controversial foul impureness     The peace that is thy light to thee     Quench not: in faith and inner sureness     Possess thy soul and l"

"As, at a railway junction, men     Who came together, taking then     One the train up, one down, again     Meet never! Ah, much more as they"

"SCENE I. Adam and Eve. Adam. Since that last evening we have fallen indeed! Yes, we have fallen, my Eve! O yes! One, two, and three, and four; the App"

"I     That children in their loveliness should die     Before the dawning beauty, which we know     Cannot remain, has yet begun to go;     That"

"Or shall I say, Vain word, false thought,     Since prudence hath her martyrs too,     And Wisdom dictates not to do,     Till doing shall be n"

"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 w"

"I hope it is in good plain verse, said my uncle, none of your hurry-scurry anapsts, as you call them, in lines which sober people read for pla"

"Hope evermore and believe, O man, for een as thy thought     So are the things that thou seest; een as thy hope and belief.     Cowardly art"

"Across the sea, along the shore,     In numbers more and ever more,     From lonely hut and busy town,     The valley through, the mountain dow"

"Blessed are those who have not seen,     And who have yet believed     The witness, here that has not been,     From heaven they have received."

"So I went wrong,     Grievously wrong, but folly crushed itself,     And vanity oertoppling fell, and time     And healthy discipline and some"

"When panting sighs the bosom fill,     And hands by chance united thrill     At once with one delicious pain     The pulses and the nerves of t"

"Lo, here is God, and there is God!     Believe it not, O Man;     In such vain sort to this and that     The ancient heathen ran:     Though o"

"Christian.     A highland inn among the western hills,     A single parlour, single bed that fills     With fisher or with tourist, as may be;"

"Upon the water, in the boat,     I sit and sketch as down I float:     The stream is wide, the view is fair,     I sketch it looking backward t"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral V      Putavi     Stultus ego huic nostr similem.     So in the cottage with Adam the pupils five together     Duly"

"NAPOLEON.     Is it this, then, O world-warrior,     That, exulting, through the folds     Of the dark and cloudy barrier     Thine enfranchi"

"Come back again, my olden heart! Ah, fickle spirit and untrue, I bade the only guide depart Whose faithfulness I surely knew: I said, my heart is all"

"Were you with me, or I with you,     Theres nought, methinks, I might not do;     Could venture here, and venture there,     And never fear, n"

"Light words they were, and lightly, falsely said:     She heard them, and she started, and she rose,     As in the act to speak; the sudden thou"

"O happy they whose hearts receive     The implanted word with faith; believe     Because their fathers did before,     Because they learnt, and"