Arthur Hugh Clough

Poems (7)

• Despondency Rebuked

  Say not, the struggle nought availeth, / The labor and the wounds are vain, …

• In a Lecture-Room

  Away, haunt thou not me, / Thou vain Philosophy! …

• Qua Cursum Ventus

  As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay / With canvas drooping, side by side, …

• Say not the Struggle Naught availeth

  Say not the struggle naught availeth, / The labour and the wounds are vain, …

• The Gondola

  Afloat; we move—delicious! Ah, / What else is like the gondola? …

• The Latest Decalogue

  Thou shalt have one God only: who / Would be at the expense of two? …

• “Where lies the land?”

  Where lies the land to which the ship would go? / Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. …