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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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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

ODE TO THE DAFFODIL.

A PICTURE OF HERODIAS' DAUGHTER BY LUINI.

ODE, WRITTEN BESIDE THE LAGO VARESE.

LINES COMPOSED NEAR SHELLEY'S HOUSE AT LERICI, ON ALL SOULS' DAY, 1856.

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I. WRITTEN AT VEVEY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1856.

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II. WRITTEN NEAR SPEZIA, OCTOBER 19, 1856.

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III. WRITTEN IN ISCHIA, FEBRUARY 1, 1859.

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IV. WRITTEN NEAR SPEZIA, 1864.

A MOTHER'S SONG.

A CHRISTIAN MAID.

A CHRISTIAN POETESS.

IN MEMORY OF EDWIN, EARL OF DUNRAVEN.

AN EPITAPH WITHOUT A NAME.

GENIUS AND SANCTITY.

THE MATERIALIST'S RELIGION;

ON A GREAT PLAGIARIST.

THE SERIOUS ‘VIVE LA BAGATELLE.’

TO A FORMALIST.

ON VISITING A HAUNT OF COLERIDGE'S.

LINES TO AN OLD LARCH-TREE AT CURRAGH CHASE.

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

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O my Sire,
Much, much of that high vision was fulfilled!
To dwell upon that thought is still my peace.
This Italy was but thine Empire's core,
Rhætia, Dalmatia, Norieum, Pannonia,
The West was thine. Iberia, southern Gaul,
Earth from Danubius to the Atlantic pillars!
The Italians held the civil offices,
The Goths the warlike. Peace returned—then gold;
In desolate cities glorious structures rose;
Fair villas smiled above the Larian lake;
The waves Lucanian: classic song revived:
Philosophy looked up once more to heaven:
Hope ruled again the world.