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The Poetical Works of Aubrey De Vere

De Vere, Aubrey (1814-1902)

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I.

VOL. I. THE SEARCH AFTER PROSERPINE

RECOLLECTIONS OF GREECE,

KING HENRY THE SECOND AT THE TOMB OF KING ARTHUR,

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

THE YEAR OF SORROW AND OTHER POEMS.

SONNETS WRITTEN IN TRAVEL.

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

I.

II.

II. ON THE DEATH OF A GOOD KING.

III.

III. ON THE FALL OF A USURPER.

IV.

V.

V. TO THE NOBILITY OF ENGLAND, 1848.

VI.

VI. ON A CONVENT.

VII.

VII. A CONVENT SCHOOL IN A CORRUPT CITY.

VIII.

IX.

IX. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.—1.

X.

X. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.—2.

XI.

XI. ON A PORTRAIT.

XII.

XII. FALSE FRIENDSHIP.

XIII.

XIV.

XIV. THE POETRY OF LIFE.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVII. A POET TO A PAINTER.

XVIII.

XVIII. THE FALL OF BACON.

XIX.

XIX. GRACE DIEU.

XX.

XXI.

XXI. FROM PETRARCH.

XXII.

XXII. FROM PETRARCH.

XXIII.

XXIII. FROM PETRARCH.

XXIV.

XXIV. IN MEMORY OF SIR WILLIAM R. HAMILTON.—1.

XXV.

XXV. AFTER READING AGAIN HIS LETTERS.—2.

XXVI.

XXVI. TRUE AND FALSE LOVE OF FREEDOM. 1860.

XXVII.

XXVII. NATIONAL APOSTACY.

XXVIII.

THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF;

THE BARD ETHELL.

THE SISTERS; OR, WEAL IN WOE.

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III.

IV.

V.

VI.

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

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XIV. THE POETRY OF LIFE.

Dian! thy brother of the golden beams
Is hailed for ever as the Lord of Song,
Master of manly verse, and mystic dreams:
Doth, then, no female lyre to thee belong?
Say, is that silver bow whose crescent gleams,
Above black pine-woods lifted, or low-hung
'Twixt hornèd rocks, or troubling midnight streams,
With immelodious cord, and silent, strung?
Ah no, not so! Thou too art musical!
The world is full of poetry unwrit;
Dew-woven nets that virgin hearts enthrall;
Darts of glad thought through infant brains that flit;
Hope and pursuit; loved bonds, and fancies free;—
Poor were our earth of these bereft and thee!