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The Poetical Works of Aubrey De Vere

De Vere, Aubrey (1814-1902)

I.

VOL. I. THE SEARCH AFTER PROSERPINE

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IV.

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V.

“THE IRISH SISTERS.”

SONNETS BY THE LATE HON STEPHEN E. SPRING RICE.

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POEMS FOR THE MOST PART CONNECTED WITH THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE, 1846—1849.

TO CHARLES COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT,

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I.

I. JOAN OF ARC.

II.

II. THE PRINCE OF WALES' TRIBUTE OF PRAISE TO FATHER DAMIEN.

III.

III. ON THE LATE PILGRIMAGE TO PARAY LE MONIAL.

IV.

IV. ST. CHRYSOSTOM'S RETURN FROM EXILE.

V.

V. THE DEATH OF POPE HILDEBRAND.

VI.

VI. THE FORMULARY OF POPE HORMISDAS.

VII.

VII. THE SPANISH ARMADA AND THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.

VIII.

VIII. THE ISLAND OF IONA.

IX.

IX. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

X.

X. A PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.

XI.

XI. ON THE CONSECRATION OF ST. PATRICK'S NEW CATHEDRAL AT ARMAGH.

XII.

XII. ON THE CONSECRATION OF IRELAND TO THE SACRED HEART.

ON THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW CHURCH AT MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.

XV.

XV. THE MAYNOOTH CENTENARY;

XVI.

XVI. THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH NEAR WINDERMERE.

XVII.

XVII. WALNA CRAG, AND ‘THE LADY'S RAKE,’ DERWENTWATER.

XVIII.

XVIII. ULSWATER.

SAINT PETER'S CHAINS;

VI.

VOL. VI. LEGENDS AND RECORDS OF THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE

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IV. ST. CHRYSOSTOM'S RETURN FROM EXILE.

Sad is the music though the midnight seas
Flash in the torch-light brighter than by day—

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Dirge for the dead. A hundred ships make way
Like pyres of Norland kings, before the breeze.
That night they pass the famed Symplegades;
At dawn they anchor in Byzantium's bay;
At noon, o'er streets flower-strewn with banners gay
A regal train advances. Who are these?
An Emperor kneels before a Pontiff's bier,
Suing the pardon of a Father's crime;
A penitent people high the coffin rear;
The ‘Apostles' Church,’ as in the ancient time,
Receives once more her exiled Chrysostom—
Fitlier this day he sleeps Saint Peter's guest at Rome.

Arcadius, Emperor of the East, banished St. Chrysostom. He died of his sufferings on his way to his place of exile, Pityus, on the eastern coast of the Euxine. Thirty years later Theodosius II., son of Arcadius, brought back the body of the Saint to Constantinople, and interred it, A.D. 438, in the Church of the Apostles. See Leaves from St. John Chrysostom, by Mary H. Allies, pp. 13—15.