Selections from the Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough

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Macmillan, 1894 - 208 Seiten
 

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Seite 121 - Or wist, what first with dawn appeared ! To veer, how vain! On, onward strain. Brave barks! In light, in darkness too, Through winds and tides one compass guides, — To that, and your own selves, be true. But...
Seite 116 - I HAVE seen higher, holier things than these, And therefore must to these refuse my heart, Yet am I panting for a little ease ; I'll take, and so depart. Ah, hold ! the heart is prone to fall away, Her high and cherished visions to forget, And if thou takest, how wilt thou repay So vast, so dread a debt ? How will the heart, which now thou trustest, then Corrupt, yet in corruption mindful yet, Turn with sharp stings upon itself!
Seite 5 - Where in the morning was custom, where over a ledge of granite Into a granite basin the amber torrent descended, Only a step from the cottage, the road and larches between them. Hewson and Hobbes followed quick upon Adam ; on them followed Arthur.
Seite 206 - 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, Far, far behind, is all that they can say. On sunny noons upon the deck's smooth face ; Linked arm in arm, how pleasant here to pace ; Or, o'er the stern reclining, watch below The foaming wake far widening as we go. On stormy nights when wild north-westers rave, How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave ! The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to bear, and...
Seite 150 - I can pay for the damage, if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho ! So pleasant it is to have money.
Seite 144 - 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.'
Seite 174 - THOU shalt have one God only ; who Would be at the expense of two ? No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency : Swear not at all ; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse : At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend : Honour thy parents ; that is, all From whom advancement may befall : Thou shalt not kill ; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive...
Seite 173 - It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so...

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