Poetry Codex

Victorian

Arthur Hugh Clough

1819–1861

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) was an English poet and close friend of Matthew Arnold, whose verse candidly registers the Victorian crisis of religious faith and doubt.

His long poems Amours de Voyage and The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich experiment with conversational, unglamorous realism unusual for their time.

Major Works (3)

  1. Amours de Voyage — Narrative poem, 1858
  2. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich — Narrative poem, 1848
  3. Mari Magno; or, Tales on Board — Narrative poem, 1862

Poems (94)

  1. An Evening Walk in Spring
  2. An Incident
  3. The Thread of Truth
  4. Revival
  5. The Shady Lane
  6. The Higher Courage
  7. Written on a Bridge
  8. A River Pool
  9. In a Lecture-room
  10. VIII
  11. IX
  12. A Song of Autumn
  13. The Silver Wedding
  14. Love, Not Duty
  15. Love and Reason
  16. Wirkung in Der Ferne
  17. A Protest
  18. Sic Itur
  19. Parting
  20. Qua Cursum Ventus
  21. ‘_wen Gott Betrügt, Ist Wohl Betrogen._’
  22. The Song of Lamech
  23. Genesis Xxiv
  24. Jacob
  25. Jacob’s Wives
  26. The New Sinai
  27. Qui Laborat, Orat
  28. The Hidden Love
  29. Shadow and Light
  30. ‘with Whom is No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning.’
  31. In Stratis Viarum
  32. ‘_o Thou of Little Faith._’
  33. ‘_through a Glass Darkly._’
  34. Noli Æmulari
  35. ‘_what Went Ye Out for to See?_’
  36. Epi-strauss-ium
  37. The Shadow
  38. Naples, 1849
  39. Duty
  40. Life is Struggle
  41. In the Great Metropolis
  42. The Latest Decalogue
  43. The Questioning Spirit
  44. A Sequel
  45. Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen!
  46. Cold Comfort
  47. Sehnsucht
  48. High and Low
  49. All is Well
  50. The Stream of Life
  51. In a London Square
  52. Ite Domum Saturæ, Venit Hesperus
  53. A London Idyll
  54. Natura Naturans
  55. Shakspeare
  56. Pisa
  57. VI
  58. VII
  59. MARI MAGNO or TALES ON BOARD
  60. I
  61. II
  62. III
  63. IV
  64. V
  65. The Clergyman’s First Tale
  66. The Mate’s Story
  67. The Clergyman’s Second Tale
  68. Songs in Absence
  69. (i. 1-32.)
  70. (i. 121-218.)
  71. Alcaics
  72. Actæon
  73. Come, Poet, Come!
  74. In the Depths
  75. Darkness
  76. Two Moods
  77. Youth and Age
  78. Solvitur Acris Hiems
  79. Thesis and Antithesis
  80. Columbus
  81. Even the Winds and the Sea Obey
  82. Repose in Egypt
  83. To a Sleeping Child
  84. Uranus
  85. Selene
  86. At Rome
  87. Napoleon
  88. Wellington
  89. Peschiera
  90. Alteram Partem
  91. Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
  92. Hope Evermore and Believe!
  93. I have seen higher, holier things than these
  94. Isolation

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