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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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III.

IV.

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V.

“THE IRISH SISTERS.”

SONNETS BY THE LATE HON STEPHEN E. SPRING RICE.

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

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I.

I. ST. PETER'S BY MOONLIGHT.

II.

II. PONTIFIC MASS IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL.

III.

III. THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN.

IV.

IV. THE ARCH OF TITUS.

V.

V. THE CAMPAGNA SEEN FROM ST. JOHN LATERAN.

VI.

VI. BIRDS IN THE BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN.

VII.

VII. THE ‘MISERERE’ IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL.

VIII.

VIII. THE ‘MISERERE’ IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL.

IX.

IX. THE MONUMENTS OF QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND THE COUNTESS MATILDA IN ST. PETER'S.

X.

X. THE CATACOMBS.

XI.

XI. THE APPIAN WAY.

XII.

XII. ON THE CROSS IN THE INTERIOR OF THE COLISEUM.

XIII.

XIII. THE FOUNTAIN OF EGERIA.

XIV.

XIV. THE GRAVES OF TIRCONNEL AND TYRONE ON SAN PIETRO, IN MONTORIO.

XV.

XV. TO THE PILLAR THAT STANDS BESIDE THE HIGH ALTAR AT ‘ST. PAUL'S OUTSIDE THE WALLS,’ ROME.

SAINT PETER'S CHAINS;

VI.

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

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III. THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN.

Degrading Art's augustest minist'rings
Yon Pillar soars with sculptured forms embost
Whose grace at that ambitious height is lost:
Lo! as the stony serpent twines its rings
Priests, coursers, heralds, warriors, slaves, and kings
Mingle, a tortuous mass confused and crost;
While Art, least honoured here where flattered most,
Deplores in vain her prostituted springs
By a fallen Angel at their source ill-stirred;
Unholy—thence unhealing! What is aid
Vouchsafed upon conditions that degrade
To one who her allegiance hath transferred?
O Attic Art brought low, that here dost stand
Full-fed, but hooded, on a tyrant's hand!