Chapter I: Front Matter

POEMS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

POEMS
OF
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

SOMETIME FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE
OXFORD

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1898

First published elsewhere. First printed for MACMILLAN & CO.
1891. Reprinted 1895, 1898.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

EARLY POEMS.

An Evening Walk in Spring 3

An Incident 5

The Thread of Truth 6

Revival 7

The Shady Lane 8

The Higher Courage 9

Written on a Bridge 10

A River Pool 10

In a Lecture-Room 11

‘Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not
realised’ 12

A Song of Autumn 18

τὸ καλόν 19

Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ 20

The Silver Wedding 20

The Music of the World and of the Soul 23

Love, not Duty 25

Love and Reason 26

Ὁ Θεὸς μετὰ σοῦ! 29

Wirkung in der Ferne 30

ἐπὶ Λάτμῳ 31

A Protest 34

Sic Itur 35

Parting 36

Qua Cursum Ventus 38

‘Wen Gott betrügt, ist wohl betrogen’ 39

POEMS ON RELIGIOUS AND BIBLICAL SUBJECTS.

Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall 43

The Song of Lamech 69

Genesis XXIV. 72

Jacob 74

Jacob’s Wives 77

The New Sinai 81

Qui laborat, orat 85

ὕμνος ἄυμνος 86

The Hidden Love 87

Shadow and Light 89

‘With Whom is no Variableness, neither Shadow of Turning’ 90

In Stratis Viarum 90

‘Perchè pensa? Pensando s’invecchia’ 91

‘O thou of little Faith’ 91

‘Through a Glass darkly’ 92

Ah! yet consider it again! 93

Noli æmulari 93

‘What went ye out for to see?’ 94

Epi-strauss-ium 95

The Shadow (_a Fragment_) 96

Easter Day (Naples, 1849) 100

Easter Day, II. 104

DIPSYCHUS 107

Prologue 108

Part I. 109