The poems and prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough ::

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

EARLY POEMS.

THOUGHTS OF HOME.

AN EVENING WALK IN SPRING.

‘BLANK MISGIVINGS OF A CREATURE MOVING ABOUT IN WORLDS NOT REALISED.’

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III

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VII.

VIII.

IX.

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.

‘WEN GOTT BETRÜGT, IST WOHL BETROGEN.’

POEMS ON RELIGIOUS AND BIBLICAL SUBJECTS.

FRAGMENTS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE FALL.

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VI.

VII.

VIII.

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XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

‘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?’

II.

PROLOGUE TO DIPSYCHUS.

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III.

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IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

EPILOGUE TO DIPSYCHUS.

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III.

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!

παντα ρει: ουδεν μενει.

THE STREAM OF LIFE.

IN A LONDON SQUARE.

THE BOTHIE OF TOBER-NA-VUOLICH: A LONG-VACATION PASTORAL.

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VIII.

VIII

IX.

IDYLLIC SKETCHES.

ITE DOMUM SATURÆ, VENIT HESPERUS.

I. Claude to Eustace.

II.

II. Claude to Eustace.

III.

III. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.

IV.

IV. Claude to Eustace.

V. Claude to Eustace.

VI.

VI. Claude to Eustace.

VII.

VII. Claude to Eustace.

VIII.

VIII. Claude to Eustace.

IX.

IX. Claude to Eustace.

X. Claude to Eustace.

XI.

XI. Claude to Eustace.

XII.

XII. Claude to Eustace.

XIII.

XIII. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.

P.S. by Mary Trevellyn.

[epilogue]

II.

CANTO II.

[prologue]

I. Claude to Eustace.

II.

II. Claude to Eustace.

III.

III. Claude to Eustace.

IV.

IV. Claude to Eustace.

V. Claude to Eustace.

VI.

VI. Claude to Eustace.

VII.

VII. Claude to Eustace.

VIII.

VIII. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.

IX.

IX. Claude to Eustace.

X. Claude to Eustace.

XI.

XI. Claude to Eustace.

XII.

XII. Claude to Eustace.

XIII.

XIII. Claude to Eustace.

XIV.

XIV. Claude to Eustace.

XV.

XV. Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa ---.

P.S. by Mary Trevellyn.

P.S. by Georgina Trevellyn.

[epilogue]

III.

CANTO III.

[prologue]

I. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper,—on the way to Florence.

II.

II. Claude to Eustace,—from Rome.

III.

III. Claude to Eustace.

IV.

IV. Claude to Eustace.

V. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper,—from Florence.

VI.

VI. Claude to Eustace.

VII.

VII. Claude to Eustace.

VIII.

VIII. Claude to Eustace.

IX.

IX. Claude to Eustace.

X. Claude to Eustace.

XI.

XI. Claude to Eustace.

XII.

XII. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper.

XIII.

XIII. Claude to Eustace.

[epilogue]

IV.

CANTO IV.

[prologue]

I. Claude to Eustace,—from Florence.

II.

II. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.

III.

III. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.

IV.

IV. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.

V. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.

VI.

VI. Mary Trevellyn, from Lucerne, to Miss Roper, at Florence.

[epilogue]

CANTO V.

[prologue]

I. Mary Trevellyn, at Lucerne, to Miss Roper, at Florence.

II.

II. Claude to Eustace.

III.

III. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper,—at Lucca Baths.

IV.

IV. Claude to Eustace.

V. Claude to Eustace.

VI.

VI. Claude to Eustace.

VII.

VII. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper.

VIII.

VIII. Claude to Eustace.

IX.

IX. Claude to Eustace.

X. Claude to Eustace,—from Rome.

XI.

XI. Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper.

[epilogue]

SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH.

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VII

MARI MAGNO OR TALES ON BOARD.

[A youth was I. An elder friend with me]

THE LAWYER'S FIRST TALE.

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IV.

THE CLERGYMAN'S FIRST TALE.

THE CLERGYMAN'S SECOND TALE.

CHRISTIAN.

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]

ESSAYS IN CLASSICAL METRES.

TRANSLATIONS OF ILIAD.

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SOLVITUR ACRIS HIEMS.

THESIS AND ANTITHESIS.

ανεμωλια.

COLUMBUS.

EVEN THE WINDS AND THE SEA OBEY.

REPOSE IN EGYPT.

TO A SLEEPING CHILD.

TRANSLATIONS FROM GOETHE.

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VI.

URANUS.

SELENE.

AT ROME.

LAST WORDS. NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON.

PESCHIERA.

ALTERAM PARTEM.

SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH.

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II. Claude to Eustace.

Rome disappoints me still; but I shrink and adapt myself to it.
Somehow a tyrannous sense of a superincumbent oppression
Still, wherever I go, accompanies ever, and makes me
Feel like a tree (shall I say?) buried under a ruin of brickwork.
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo,
Merely a marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
Ye gods! what do I want with this rubbish of ages departed,
Things that nature abhors, the experiments that she has failed in?
What do I find in the Forum? An archway and two or three pillars.
Well, but St. Peter's? Alas, Bernini has filled it with sculpture!
No one can cavil, I grant, at the size of the great Coliseum.
Doubtless the notion of grand and capacious and massive amusement,
This the old Romans had; but tell me, is this an idea?
Yet of solidity much, but of splendour little is extant:

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‘Brickwork I found thee, and marble I left thee!’ their Emperor vaunted;
‘Marble I thought thee, and brickwork I find thee!’ the Tourist may answer.

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II. Claude to Eustace.