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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.

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For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

Daylight, Gain, Land, Light, Slow, Tired

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Nothing, World

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 gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.

Bitter, Dank, Foggy, Gay, Sky, Wind

Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

Devil, Hindmost, School, Stills, Take

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 find it, Above all things mind it, mind it!

Answering, Breasts, Care, Loving, Mind

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; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!

Doe, Heart, Life, Quit, Quitting, Tell

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Brother, Men, Old, Old Things, Thought

Afloat. We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?

Afloat, Delicious, Gondola, Gondolas, Like, Moving

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.

Canvas, Descried, League, Long, Towers, Two

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Approves, Competition, Coveting, Forms, Sports, Tradition

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; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

Balmy, East, Heart, Leaf, Rain, Summer

Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

Fails, Heart, Let, Light, Manlier, Thinking

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Action, Belief, Furnish, Statistics, True

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Horrible, Inferior, People, Pleasure

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; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?

Angel, Ease, Eye, Heaven, Pain, Panting

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 sweet sixteen long left behind.

Boy, Boys, Man, Men, See, Sweet

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Alive, Kill, Strive, Suicidal, Thou

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

Currency, Graven, Idols, Images, May

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Cheating, Emptiness, Feat, Lucrative, Shalt, Stealing

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Dupes, Fears, Liars, Lying, May

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