Quote #34
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 apart, descried.
More from Arthur Hugh Clough
- Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The…
- 'Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying…
- My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My…
- 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 we quit; …
- Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school- The devil take the hindmost, O!
- Our ills are worse than at their ease These blameless happy souls suspect, They only study the disease, Alas, who live not to detect.
- Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Ea…
- I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And child…