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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,

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I.

I. THE TOMB OF AGAMEMNON.—1.

II.

II. THE TOMB OF AGAMEMNON.—2.

III.

III. A STATUE OF JUNO.

IV.

IV. THE THEATRE AT ARGOS.

V.

V. THE TOMB OF THEMISTOCLES AT THE PIRÆUS.

VI.

VII.

VII. ÆSCHYLUS.

VIII.

VIII. THE SUN GOD.

IX.

X.

X. THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS.—1.

XI.

XI. THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS.—2.

XII.

XII. THE PRISON OF SOCRATES.

XIII.

XIII. WRITTEN WHILE SAILING ON THE GULF OF LEPANTO.

XIV.

XIV. THE SETTING OF THE MOON NEAR CORINTH.

XV.

XV. CONSTANTINOPLE.

XVI.

LINES WRITTEN UNDER DELPHI.

KING HENRY THE SECOND AT THE TOMB OF KING ARTHUR,

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

THE YEAR OF SORROW AND OTHER POEMS.

SONNETS WRITTEN IN TRAVEL.

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

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III.

IV.

V.

VI.

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

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XV. CONSTANTINOPLE.

Is this the sovereign seat of Constantine?
Is that indeed Sophia's far-famed Dome,
Where first the Faith was led in triumph home
Like some high bride, with banner and bright sign,
And melody and flowers? Round yonder shrine
The sons, the rivals, yea the lords of Rome,
Bowed they in reverence, awed by truths divine
Breathed through the golden lips of Chrysostom?
But where that conquering Cross, which, high in heaven,
That Dome of old surmounted? Angels sweeping
The aërial coasts hand now no more suspended—
With the wild sea-dirge their chaunts are no more blended—
Onward they speed, onward by anguish driven;
And the winds waft alone their heavenly weeping.