More from Arthur Hugh Clough

  1. Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market; Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.
  2. There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.
  3. Thy duty do? rejoined the voice, Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice; But shalt thou then, when all is done, Enjoy a love, embrace a beauty Like …
  4. So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone, I with my secret self held communing of mine own.
  5. When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; Wh…
  6. Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief.
  7. Loving-if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you…
  8. Alas! the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day; They do not quit, nor can retain, Far less consider it again.

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