The Poetical Works of Aubrey De Vere

De Vere, Aubrey (1814-1902)

VOL. I. THE SEARCH AFTER PROSERPINE

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III.

IV.

II.

PART II. The Wars of Religion.

III.

THE MINSTREL OF THE LATER DAY.

ODE. THE ‘CURSE OF CROMWELL’;

PEACE.

THE BALLAD OF THE LADY TURNED BEGGAR.

THE IRISH SLAVE IN BARBADOES.

ARCHBISHOP PLUNKET.

A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD;

A BALLAD OF ATHLONE;

THE REQUITAL.

THE LAST MAC CARTHYMORE.

DEEP CRIETH UNTO DEEP.

ADHÆSIT LINGUA LACTANTIS.

THE PROMISE.

[Only a reed that sighed—]

ODE.

THE SPIRITUAL RENOVATION.

A SONG OF THE BRIGADE.

SONG.

A SONG OF THE BRIGADE.

THE SEA-WATCHER.

THE FRIENDLY BLIGHT.

THE NEW RACE.

THE IRISH EXILE AT FIESOLE.

WINTER SONG.

GAIETY IN PENAL DAYS.

SAINT BRIGID OF THE LEGENDS.

SAINT COLUMBA'S STORK.

THE GRAVES.

THE LONG DYING.

A BARD'S LOVE FOR ERIN.

UNREVEALED.

SHANID'S KEEP.

SAINT BRIGID OF THE CONVENTS.

IN FAR LANDS.

SAINT COLUMBA'S FAREWELL.

ARBOR NOBILIS.

ST. COLUMBA OF THE LEGENDS.

THE HERMIT'S COUNSEL.

TO ETHNEA READING HOMER.

ODE ON THE FIRST REPEAL OF THE PENAL LAWS.

THE CAUSE.

MEMORY.

ALL-HALLOWS; OR, THE MONK'S DREAM.

SONNETS BY THE LATE HON STEPHEN E. SPRING RICE.

POEMS FOR THE MOST PART CONNECTED WITH THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE, 1846—1849.

URBS ROMA

SAINT PETER'S CHAINS;

VI.

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

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ON A GREAT PLAGIARIST.

Phœbus drew back with just disdain
The wreath: the Delphic Temple frowned:
The suppliant fled to Hermes' fane,
That stood on lower, wealthier ground.

The Thief-God spake, with smile star-bright:
‘Go thou where luckier poets browse
The pastures of the Lord of Light,
And do—what I did with his cows.’

He stole, killed, and ate the whole of Apollo's herd before he was a day old.—See Homer's Hymn to Mercury.

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ON A GREAT PLAGIARIST.