Arthur Hugh Clough

"CANTO III.     Yet to the wondrous St. Peters, and yet to the solemn Rotonda,     Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the Vatican Walls,"

"Come home, come home! and where is home for me,     Whose ship is driving oer the trackless sea?     To the frail bark here plunging on its way"

"Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there     In small bright specks upon the visible side     Of our strange beings party-coloured web."

"I     From thy far sources, mid mountains airily climbing,     Pass to the rich lowland, thou busy sunny river;     Murmuring once, dimpling,"

"The mighty ocean rolls and raves,     To part us with its angry waves;     But arch on arch from shore to shore,     In a vast fabric reaching"

"The silver Wedding! on some pensive ear From towers remote as sound the silvery bells, To-day from one far unforgotten year A silvery faint memorial m"

"Primiti, or Third Cousins. I     Dearest of boys, please come to-day,     Papa and mama have bid me say,     They hope youll dine with us at"

"Farewell, my Highland lassie! when the year returns around,     Be it Greece, or be it Norway, where my vagrant feet are found,     I shall call"

"An interval of thirty years.     SCENE I. In London. Dipsychus in his Study.     Dipsychus. O God! O God! and must I still go on     Doing th"

"Am I with you, or you with me?     Or in some blessed place above,     Where neither lands divide nor sea,     Are we united in our love?"

"The silver Wedding! on some pensive ear     From towers remote as sound the silvery bells,     To-day from one far unforgotten year     A silve"

"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 ch"

"Ah, blame him not because hes gay!     That he should smile, and jest, and play     But shows how lightly he can bear,     How well forget tha"

"I     Why should I say I see the things I see not?     Why be and be not?     Show love for that I love not, and fear for what I fear not?     An"

"So spake the voice: and as with a single life     Instinct, the whole mass, fierce, irretainable,     Down on that unsuspecting host swept;"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral II     Et certamen erat, Corydon cum Thyrside, magnum.     Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out from the mou"

"How in Gods name did Columbus get over     Is a pure wonder to me, I protest,     Cabot, and Raleigh too, that well-read rover,     Frobisher,"

"The grasses green of sweet content     That spring, no matter high or low,     Whereer a living thing can grow,     On chilly hills and rocky"

"Mari Magno or Tales on Board My Tale A la Banquette, or a Modern Pilgrimage.     I stayed at La Quenille, ten miles or more     From the old-Rom"

"To wear out heart, and nerves, and brain,     And give oneself a world of pain;     Be eager, angry, fierce, and hot,     Imperious, supple God"

"When soft September brings again     To yonder gorse its golden glow,     And Snowdon sends its autumn rain     To bid thy current livelier flo"

"CANTO V.     There is a city, upbuilt on the quays of the turbulent Arno,     Under Fiesoles heights, thither are we to return?     There is"

"Said the Poet, I wouldnt maintain,     As the mystical German has done,     That the land, inexistent till then,     To reward him then first"

"A Long-Vacation Pastoral VI     Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin.     Bright October was come, the misty-bright October,"

"Farewell, farewell! Her vans the vessel tries,     His iron might the potent engine plies:     Haste, winged words, and ere tis useless, tell,"