Selected Poems: Arthur Hugh Clough

by Clough, Arthur Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781857547184
• ISBN10: 1857547187
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The works of Arthur Clough, a poet whose work both reflected and questioned the values of 19th-century England, are collected in this compilation. With wry, wise tones, these poems explore the tensions of a time of radical change in the religious, political, and literary landscape. The critically acclaimed narrative verse "The Bothie of Tober-Na Vuolich" and the epistolary "Amours de Voyage" are included.

Author Biography

Arthur Clough was a 19th-century poet and lecturer. His literary acquaintances included Matthew Arnold, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Charles Eliot.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Whoso list to hunt...	p. 21
I find no peace...	p. 21
My galley charged...	p. 22
Unstable dream...	p. 22
If waker care...	p. 23
The pillar perished...	p. 23
You that in love...	p. 24
My love took scorn...	p. 24
The flaming sighs...	p. 25
I abide and abide...	p. 26
Ever mine hap...	p. 26
Who hath heard of such cruelty...	p. 27
Th'en'my of life...	p. 27
Tagus, farewell...	p. 27
Sighs are my food...	p. 28
A face that should content...	p. 28
Lux, my fair falcon...	p. 28
My lute, awake!	p. 29
Blame not my lute...	p. 30
All heavy minds...	p. 32
In eternum...	p. 34
Ah, Robin...	p. 35
O goodly hand...	p. 36
Perdie, I said it not...	p. 37
Madam, withouten many words...	p. 38
Patience, though I have not...	p. 39
What means this...?	p. 39
They flee from me...	p. 41
If thou will mighty be...	p. 41
Once, as me thought...	p. 42
What death is worse than this?	p. 43
Though I cannot your cruelty constrain ...	p. 44
And wilt thou leave me thus?	p. 45
Since you will needs...	p. 46
There was never nothing...	p. 47
Is it possible...?	p. 48
Marvel no more...	p. 49
Tangled I was in love's snare...	p. 50
When first mine eyes...	p. 51
To wish and want and not obtain ...	p. 52
It may be good...	p. 53
My hope, alas, hath me abused...	p. 54
What rage is this?	p. 55
At most mischief...	p. 56
If with complaint...	p. 57
Longer to muse...	p. 58
Mistrustful minds be moved...	p. 59
What should say...?	p. 60
If chance assigned...	p. 61
Most wretched heart...	p. 62
Sufficed not, madam...	p. 64
Spite hath no power...	p. 65
Ye know my heart...	p. 66
Process of time ...	p. 67
Such hap as I am happed in...	p. 68
Take heed betime...	p. 69
Forget not yet the tried intent...	p. 70
Your looks so often cast...	p. 71
Ah, my heart...	p. 72
To make an end...	p. 73
If in the world there be more woe...	p. 74
My love is like unto th'eternal fire...	p. 74
Disdain me not without desert...	p. 75
Satire No. 1: My own John Poyntz...	p. 76
Satire No. 3: 'A spending hand ...'	p. 79
Psalm 102	p. 82
Psalm 130	p. 85
Notes	p. 87
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