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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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THE MATERIALIST'S RELIGION;

OR, PESSIMISM'S ‘DOWNWARD WAY.’

Ye Twelve Olympians crowned for aye,
Hurl back the Furies and the Fates!
Nightmares of Conscience, hence, away,
Beyond your famed Tartarean Gates!
Ye Woodgods, Lords of Lawlessness,
That din the dusk with bounding hoof,
Drive back the Olympian Twelve no less:
Their starry stillness means Reproof.
Ye children, scare with cowslip ball
Those Woodgods last! With idle breath
They mock that king who draggeth all
Into his own dread silence—Death.
Faith darkens, Love distempers, life:
The chaplets fade on Fancy's brow:
Come, Iris, with thy painless knife:
The last of Gods, and best, art thou!
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