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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.
  
[dedication]
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
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ODE TO THE DAFFODIL.
  
A FAREWELL.
  
SONG.
  
A PICTURE OF HERODIAS' DAUGHTER BY LUINI.
  
VANITY.
  
CHAUCER.
  
SPENSER.
  
ODE, WRITTEN BESIDE THE LAGO VARESE.
  
ODE.
  
LINES COMPOSED NEAR SHELLEY'S HOUSE AT LERICI, ON ALL SOULS' DAY, 1856.
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SONNETS.
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SONNETS.
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I. WORDSWORTH. COMPOSED AT RYDAL.—1.
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II. WORDSWORTH, ON VISITING THE DUDDON. —2.
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III. WORDSWORTH, ON VISITING THE DUDDON.—3.
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IV. SELF-DECEPTION.
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V. POETIC RESERVE.
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VI. ON A GREAT FUNERAL.
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VII.TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON.—1.
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VIII. TO THE SAME.—2. June 12, 1861.
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IX. THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE.—1.
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X. THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE.—2.
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XI. THE CENTENARY OF AMERICAN LIBERTY.
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XII. ROBERT ISAAC WILBERFORCE.
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XIII. ‘LE RÉCIT D'UNE SŒUR.’—1.
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XIV. ‘LE RÉCIT D'UNE SŒUR.’—2.
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XV. A WINTER NIGHT IN THE WOODS.
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XVI. POLAND AND RUSSIA.—1.
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XVII. POLAND AND RUSSIA.—2.
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XVIII. GALATEA AND URANIA; OR, ART AND FAITH.
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XIX. COMMON LIFE.
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XX. TO KEATS.
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XXI. MODERN DESPONDENCY.
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XXII. PONTEFRACT CASTLE; OR, TREASON'S TWOFOLD BEQUEST.
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XXIII. INDUSTRY.
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XXIV. TO THE MOST FAIR.
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XXV. IN MEMORY OF THE LATE SIR JOHN SIMEON.—1.
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XXVI. IN MEMORY OF THE LATE SIR JOHN SIMEON.—2.
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XXVII. IN MEMORY OF THE LATE SIR JOHN SIMEON.—3.
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XXVIII. THE POETRY OF THE FUTURE.
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XXIX. THE RUINS OF EMANIA, NEAR ARMAGH.
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XXX. DUNLUCE CASTLE, COUNTY OF ANTRIM.
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XXXI. HORN HEAD, COUNTY OF DONEGAL.
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XXXII. FOUNTAINS ABBEY.
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XXXIII. ON READING AN UNTRUE CHARGE.
  
ON VISITING A HAUNT OF COLERIDGE'S.
  
LINES TO AN OLD LARCH-TREE AT CURRAGH CHASE.
  
AUTUMNAL ODE.
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VOL. IV.
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VOL. V.
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VOL. VI. LEGENDS AND RECORDS OF THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE

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XVIII. CASTELAMARE.

O cool and healthful nights! O peaceful gloom!
O winding sands that in your beauteous zone
Clasp the dim watery plain, how oft alone
I paced your marge, inhaling the perfume
Which forests bursting with invisible bloom
Poured from their mountain ambush! Moon was none:
But with such strength the lamp of Venus shone,
Descending nightly over Virgil's tomb,
That, like the moonbeam, her long lustre lay
On distant waves to meet that radiance swelling;
A long bright ladder from the Star of Love
Touched, as it seemed, our lower world. Above,
The nightingale her sorrows wept away;
And all the echoes of her wrong were telling.
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