Who is Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough (/klʌf/ KLUF; 1 January 1819 – 13 November 1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough and father to Blanche Athena Clough who both became principals of Newnham College, Cambridge.Life Arthur Clough was born in Liverpool to James Butler Clough, a cotton merchant of Welsh descent, and Anne Perfect, from Pontefract in Yorkshire. James Butler Clough was a younger son of a landed gentry family that had been living at Plas Clough in Denbighshire since 1567. In 1822 the family moved to the United States, and Clough's early childhood was spent mainly in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1828 Clough and his older brother Charles Butler ...
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Arthur Hugh Clough Poems
- Perche Pensa? Pensando S'invecchia
To spend uncounted years of pain,
Again, again, and yet again,
In working out in heart and brain
The problem of our being here; ... - Amours De Voyage - Canto V
CANTO V.
There is a city, upbuilt on the quays of the turbulent Arno,
Under Fiesole's heights, thither are we to return? ... - Amours De Voyage - Canto Iv
CANTO IV.
Eastward, or Northward, or West? I wander and ask as I wander,
Weary, yet eager and sure, Where shall I come to my love? ... - Amours De Voyage - Canto Iii
CANTO III.
Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotonda,
Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the Vatican Walls, ... - Amours De Voyage - Canto Ii
CANTO II.
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages,
Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption, abide? ...
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- Obscurityremain: "o let me love my love unto myself alone, and know my knowledge to the world unknown, no witness to the vision call, beholding, unbeheld of all..." ~arthur hugh clough
