„Avrai un solo Dio! E chi vorrebbe sobbarcarsi la spesa di due!“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
da The Latest Decalogue
Thou shalt have one God only; who | Would be at the expense of two?
Frasi di Arthur Hugh Clough
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Data di nascita: 1. Gennaio 1819
Data di morte: 13. Novembre 1861
Arthur Hugh Clough è stato un poeta inglese, fratello di Anne Jemima Clough.
Frasi Arthur Hugh Clough
„La grazia è data da Dio, ma la conoscenza si compra al supermercato.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
da The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich
„Un mondo dove niente si ottiene per niente.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
da The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich
„I sit at my table en grand seigneur,
And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor;
Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good living,
But also the pleasure of now and then giving.
So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!
So pleasant it is to have money.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Dipsychus, Pt. II, sc. ii.
„Dance on, dance on, we see, we see
Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,
A boy the old man ne’er can be;
Maternal thirty scarce can find
The sweet sixteen long left behind.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Youth and Age http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/youthage.html, st. 1.
„In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, st. 4.
„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.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
The Thread of Truth http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/misc/threadtruth.html (1839).
„A world where nothing is had for nothing.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich, Pt. VIII.
„Alas! the great world goes its way,
And takes its truth from each new day;
They do not quit, nor can retain,
Far less consider it again.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Ah! Yet Consider It Again! http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/considerit.html, st. 4 (1851).
„And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Dipsychus http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/dipsychusprologue.html, Pt. I, sc. v (1862).
„Each for himself is still the rule
We learn it when we go to school—
The devil take the hindmost, O!“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
In the Great Metropolis http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/greatmetropolis.html, st. 1.
„So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,
I with my secret self held communing of mine own.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Easter Day II http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/easterdayii.html, l. 1-2 (1849).
„Twas on a sunny summer day
I trod a mighty city’s street,
And when I started on my way
My heart was full of fancies sweet;
But soon, as nothing could be seen,
But countenances sharp and keen,
Nought heard or seen around but told
Of something bought or something sold,
And none that seemed to think or care
That any save himself was there.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
An Incident http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/incident.html, st. 1 (1836).
„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.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go? http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/491.html, st. 1 (1852).
„There is no God,” the wicked saith,
“And truly it’s a blessing,
For what He might have done with us
It’s better only guessing.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
There is No God, the Wicked Sayeth http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/misc/wickedsayeth.html, st. 1 (1862).
„Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,
East wind and frost are safely gone;
With zephyr mild and balmy rain
The summer comes serenely on;
Earth, air, and sun and skies combine
To promise all that’s kind and fair:—
But thou, O human heart of mine,
Be still, contain thyself, and bear.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
In a London Square http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/londonsquare.html, st. 1.
„Go; say not in thy heart, And what then were it accomplished,
Were the wild impulse allayed, what were the use or the good!
Go, when the instinct is stilled, and when the deed is accomplished,
What thou bast done and shalt do, shall be declared to thee then.
Go with the sun and the stars, and yet evermore in thy spirit
Say to thyself: It is good: yet is there better than it.
This that I see is not all, and this that I do is but little;
Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it.“
— Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope Evermore and Believe! http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/hopeevermore.html, st. 2 (written 1853, published 1862).
