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The poems and prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough

With a selection from his letters and a memoir: Edited by his wife: In two volumes: With a portrait
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

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VOL. II. POEMS
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EARLY POEMS.
  
THOUGHTS OF HOME.
  
AN EVENING WALK IN SPRING.
  
AN INCIDENT.
  
THE THREAD OF TRUTH.
  
REVIVAL.
  
THE SHADY LANE.
  
THE HIGHER COURAGE.
  
WRITTEN ON A BRIDGE.
  
A RIVER POOL.
  
IN A LECTURE-ROOM.
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‘BLANK MISGIVINGS OF A CREATURE MOVING ABOUT IN WORLDS NOT REALISED.’
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A SONG OF AUTUMN.
  
το καλον.
  
παντα ρει: ουδεν μενει.
  
THE SILVER WEDDING.
  
THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD AND OF THE SOUL.
  
LOVE, NOT DUTY.
  
LOVE AND REASON.
  
Ο Θεος μετα σου!
  
WIRKUNG IN DER FERNE.
  
επι Λατμω.
  
A PROTEST.
  
SIC ITUR.
  
PARTING.
  
QUA CURSUM VENTUS.
  
‘WEN GOTT BETRÜGT, IST WOHL BETROGEN.’
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POEMS ON RELIGIOUS AND BIBLICAL SUBJECTS.
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FRAGMENTS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE FALL.
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Scene XIV.
  
THE SONG OF LAMECH.
  
GENESIS XXIV.
  
JACOB.
  
JACOB'S WIVES.
  
THE NEW SINAI.
  
QUI LABORAT, ORAT.
  
υμνος αυμνος.
  
THE HIDDEN LOVE.
  
SHADOW AND LIGHT.
  
‘WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING.’
  
IN STRATIS VIARUM.
  
‘PERCHÈ PENSA? PENSANDO S'INVECCHIA.’
  
‘O THOU OF LITTLE FAITH.’
  
‘THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.’
  
AH! YET CONSIDER IT AGAIN!
  
NOLI ÆMULARI.
  
‘WHAT WENT YE OUT FOR TO SEE?’
  
EPI-STRAUSS-IUM.
  
THE SHADOW.
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EASTER DAY.
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DIPSYCHUS
  
PROLOGUE TO DIPSYCHUS.
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Part I.
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Part II.
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EPILOGUE TO DIPSYCHUS.
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DIPSYCHUS CONTINUED.
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POEMS ON LIFE AND DUTY.
  
DUTY.
  
LIFE IS STRUGGLE.
  
IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
  
THE LATEST DECALOGUE.
  
THE QUESTIONING SPIRIT.
  
BETHESDA.
  
HOPE EVERMORE AND BELIEVE!
  
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HAVE NOT SEEN!
  
COLD COMFORT.
  
SEHNSUCHT.
  
HIGH AND LOW.
  
ALL IS WELL.
  
παντα ρει: ουδεν μενει.
  
THE STREAM OF LIFE.
  
IN A LONDON SQUARE.
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THE BOTHIE OF TOBER-NA-VUOLICH: A LONG-VACATION PASTORAL.
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IDYLLIC SKETCHES.
  
ITE DOMUM SATURÆ, VENIT HESPERUS.
  
A LONDON IDYLL.
  
NATURA NATURANS.
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AMOURS DE VOYAGE.
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CANTO I.
  
[prologue]
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I. Claude to Eustace.
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II. Claude to Eustace.
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III. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.
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IV. Claude to Eustace.
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V. Claude to Eustace.
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VI. Claude to Eustace.
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VII. Claude to Eustace.
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VIII. Claude to Eustace.
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IX. Claude to Eustace.
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X. Claude to Eustace.
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XI. Claude to Eustace.
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XII. Claude to Eustace.
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XIII. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.
  
P.S. by Mary Trevellyn.
  
[epilogue]
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CANTO II.
  
[prologue]
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I. Claude to Eustace.
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II. Claude to Eustace.
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III. Claude to Eustace.
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IV. Claude to Eustace.
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V. Claude to Eustace.
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VI. Claude to Eustace.
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VII. Claude to Eustace.
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VIII. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.
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IX. Claude to Eustace.
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X. Claude to Eustace.
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XI. Claude to Eustace.
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XII. Claude to Eustace.
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XIII. Claude to Eustace.
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XIV. Claude to Eustace.
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XV. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.
  
P.S. by Mary Trevellyn.
  
P.S. by Georgina Trevellyn.
  
[epilogue]
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CANTO III.
  
[prologue]
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I. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper,—on the way to Florence.
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II. Claude to Eustace,—from Rome.
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III. Claude to Eustace.
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IV. Claude to Eustace.
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V. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper,—from Florence.
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VI. Claude to Eustace.
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VII. Claude to Eustace.
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VIII. Claude to Eustace.
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IX. Claude to Eustace.
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X. Claude to Eustace.
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XI. Claude to Eustace.
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XII. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper.
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XIII. Claude to Eustace.
  
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CANTO IV.
  
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I. Claude to Eustace,—from Florence.
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II. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.
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III. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.
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IV. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.
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V. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.
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VI. Mary Trevellyn, from Lucerne, to Miss Roper, at Florence.
  
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CANTO V.
  
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I. Mary Trevellyn, at Lucerne, to Miss Roper, at Florence.
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II. Claude to Eustace.
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III. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper,—at Lucca Baths.
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IV. Claude to Eustace.
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V. Claude to Eustace.
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VI. Claude to Eustace.
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VII. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper.
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VIII. Claude to Eustace.
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IX. Claude to Eustace.
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X. Claude to Eustace,—from Rome.
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XI. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper.
  
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SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH.
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MARI MAGNO OR TALES ON BOARD.
  
[A youth was I. An elder friend with me]
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THE LAWYER'S FIRST TALE.
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THE CLERGYMAN'S FIRST TALE.
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MY TALE.
  
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Currente calamo.
  
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THE MATE'S STORY.
  
THE CLERGYMAN'S SECOND TALE.
  
CHRISTIAN.
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SONGS IN ABSENCE.
  
[Farewell, farewell! Her vans the vessel tries]
  
[Ye flags of Piccadilly]
  
[Come home, come home! and where is home for me]
  
[Green fields of England! wheresoe'er]
  
[Come back, come back, behold with straining mast]
  
[Some future day when what is now is not]
  
[Where lies the land to which the ship would go?]
  
[The mighty ocean rolls and raves]
  
[That out of sight is out of mind]
  
[Were you with me, or I with you]
  
[Am I with you, or you with me?]
  
[Were I with you, or you with me]
  
[Were you with me, or I with you]
  
[O ship, ship, ship]
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ESSAYS IN CLASSICAL METRES.
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TRANSLATIONS OF ILIAD.
  
(l. 1–32.)
  
(l. 121–218.)
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ELEGIACS.
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ALCAICS.
  
ACTÆON.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
COME, POET, COME!
  
THE DREAM LAND.
  
IN THE DEPTHS.
  
DARKNESS.
  
TWO MOODS.
  
YOUTH AND AGE.
  
SOLVITUR ACRIS HIEMS.
  
THESIS AND ANTITHESIS.
  
ανεμωλια.
  
COLUMBUS.
  
EVEN THE WINDS AND THE SEA OBEY.
  
REPOSE IN EGYPT.
  
TO A SLEEPING CHILD.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM GOETHE.
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URANUS.
  
SELENE.
  
AT ROME.
  
LAST WORDS. NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON.
  
PESCHIERA.
  
ALTERAM PARTEM.
  
SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH.

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475

TWO MOODS.

Ah, blame him not because he's gay!
That he should smile, and jest, and play
But shows how lightly he can bear,
How well forget that load which, where
Thought is, is with it, and howe'er
Dissembled, or indeed forgot,
Still is a load, and ceases not.
This aged earth that each new spring
Comes forth so young, so ravishing
In summer robes for all to see,
Of flower, and leaf, and bloomy tree,
For all her scarlet, gold, and green,
Fails not to keep within unseen
That inner purpose and that force
Which on the untiring orbit's course
Around the sun, amidst the spheres
Still bears her thro' the eternal years.
Ah, blame the flowers and fruits of May,
And then blame him because he's gay.
Ah, blame him not, for not being gay,
Because an hundred times a day
He doth not currently repay
Sweet words with ready words as sweet,
And for each smile a smile repeat.
To mute submissiveness confined,
Blame not, if once or twice the mind
Its pent up indignation wreak
In scowling brow and flushing cheek,
And smiles curled back as soon as born,
To dire significance of scorn.
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Nor blame if once, and once again
He wring the hearts of milder men,
If slights, the worse if undesigned,
Should seem unbrotherly, unkind;
For though tree wave, and blossom blow
Above, earth hides a fire below;
Her seas the starry laws obey,
And she from her own ordered way,
Swerves not, because it dims the day
Or changes verdure to decay.
Ah, blame the great world on its way,
And then blame him for not being gay.
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