Arthur Clough
Arthur Clough
Arthur Hugh Cloughwas an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham College, Cambridge...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 January 1819
ahead far land lies ship travels
Where lies the land, to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.
antique beneath black feeling grave plain
Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, / White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat / Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it.
ethics fine good
Good are the Ethics, I wis; good absolute, not for me, though; / Good, too, Logic, of course; in itself, but not in fine weather.
brave cause depart die lost souls
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, / Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?