Arthur Hugh Clough
1819 - 1861
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Biography
Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet and an educationalist. He is best known for his poems that reflect his intellectual and spiritual concerns, often focusing on the upheavals of the mid-19th century. Clough's work is noted for its exploration of social and moral issues, as well as its questioning of religious faith. Despite not achieving much recognition during his lifetime, his poetry has been appreciated in the later years for its thought-provoking themes.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, seem here no painful inch to gain, far back, through creeks and inlets making, comes silent, flooding in, the main.
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The love of God is broader than the measures of man's mind.
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Thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The bloom of later flowers, since thou art fled, In such fair company.
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Say, I do love; will love, love... Thine for ever, dear, roving with thee, hand in hand, and heart in heart, Thy family to find.
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I cannot say, and I will not say that he is dead. He is just away!