Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... mind. I yield to the laws and arrangements, Yield to the ancient existent decrees: who am I to resist them? Yes, you will find me altered in mind, I think, as in manners, Anxious too to atone for six weeks' loss of your Logic. So in the cottage with Adam, the pupils five together, Read, and bathed, and roamed, and thought not now of Philip, All in the joy of their life, and glory of shooting-jackets. VI I in-Hi' all ml, dnmum, meb tormina, ducite Uaphnin. Bkioht October was come, the misty-bright October, Bright October was come to burn and glen and cottage; Put the cottage was empty, the nMtutine deserted. Who are these that walk by the shore of the salt sea water 1 Here in the dusky eve, on the road by the salt sea water? Who are these 1 and where? it is no sweet seclusion; Blank hill-sides slope down to a salt sea loch at their bases, Scored by runnels, that fringe ere they end with rowan and alder; Cottages here and there outstanding bare on the mountain, Peat-roofed, windowless, white; the road underneath by the water. There on the blank hill-side, looking down through the loch to the ocean, There with a runnel beside, and pine-trees twain before it, There with the road underneath, and in sight of coaches and steamers. Dwelling of David Mackaye, and his daughters Elspie and Bella, Sends up a column of smoke the Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich. And of the older twain, the elder was telling the younger, How on his pittance of soil he lived, and raised potatoes, Barley, and oats, in the bothio where lived his father before him Yet was smith by trade, and had travelled making horse-shoes Far; in the army had seen some service with brave Sir Hector, Wounded soon, and discharged, disabled as smith and soldier; He had been many things since...