Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 January 1819
law wings done
Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
party golden sides
Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.
two would-be expenses
Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?
sight mind
Out of sight is out of mind.