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The Poetical Works of Aubrey De Vere

De Vere, Aubrey (1814-1902)

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VOL. I. THE SEARCH AFTER PROSERPINE
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VOL. II.
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VOL. III.
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VOL. IV.
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VOL. V.
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INISFAIL
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“THE IRISH SISTERS.”
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EARLY POEMS:
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HYMNS.
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Sonnets.
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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.
  
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Sonnets.
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Irish Odes.
  
SONNET.
  
TO CHARLES COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT,
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Sonnets.
  
SHEPHERD SONG.
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I. JOAN OF ARC.
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II. THE PRINCE OF WALES' TRIBUTE OF PRAISE TO FATHER DAMIEN.
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III. ON THE LATE PILGRIMAGE TO PARAY LE MONIAL.
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IV. ST. CHRYSOSTOM'S RETURN FROM EXILE.
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V. THE DEATH OF POPE HILDEBRAND.
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VI. THE FORMULARY OF POPE HORMISDAS.
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VII. THE SPANISH ARMADA AND THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
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VIII. THE ISLAND OF IONA.
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IX. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
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X. A PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.
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XI. ON THE CONSECRATION OF ST. PATRICK'S NEW CATHEDRAL AT ARMAGH.
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XII. ON THE CONSECRATION OF IRELAND TO THE SACRED HEART.
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ON THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW CHURCH AT MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.
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XIII. THE PAST.
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XIV. THE FOUNDATION STONE.
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XV. THE MAYNOOTH CENTENARY;
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XVI. THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH NEAR WINDERMERE.
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XVII. WALNA CRAG, AND ‘THE LADY'S RAKE,’ DERWENTWATER.
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XVIII. ULSWATER.
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URBS ROMA
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SAINT PETER'S CHAINS;
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VOL. VI. LEGENDS AND RECORDS OF THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE

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Erred I in this?
My Mother said of me, ‘His hand is hard,
Not so his heart.’ The boy was hard; the man.
My chief of battles was with Origen,
That Greek whose airy fancies, unbaptized
Save in Castalian springs, if spared had changed
The solid lands and seas of Christian Faith
To mist of allegory. Rufinus next—
Ah, false, false friend! He walked with me in youth:
In age with parricidal hand he wrote
That book against God's Church. With him he drew
Salem's unholy bishop, Barnabas;
Later, by night that base Pelagian crew
Full fain had burned me in my monastery
Whose site, foreseeing, I had chosen for strength.
I shook this hand against them from its roofs,
Then 'scaped to yonder tower.
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