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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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397

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THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE.—2.

PRINCIPLE A POWER; OR, LOGIC IN HISTORY, FEBRUARY 21, 1865.

Lo! as an eagle battling through a cloud
That from his neck all night the vapour flings,
And ploughs the dark, till downward from his wings
Sunrise, long waited, smites some shipwrecked crowd
Beneath a blind sea-cavern bent and bowed;—
Thus through the storm of Men, the night of Things,
That Principle to which the issue clings
Makes fateful way, and spurns at last its shroud.
There were that saw it with a sceptic ken:
There were that saw it not through hate or pride:
But, conquering and to conquer, on it came,
No tool of man but making tools of men,
Till Nations shook beneath its advent wide,
And they that loosed the Portent rued the same.
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