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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.
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VOL. IV.
  
[dedication]
  
PROLOGUE.
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MAY CAROLS.
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PART I. THE DIVINE CHILDHOOD.
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PART II. THE SPIRITUAL MOTHERHOOD.
 I. 
I. AGIOS ATHANATOS.
 II. 
II. PASTOR ETERNUS.
 III. 
III. JESUM OSTENDE.
 IV. 
IV. TURRIS EBURNEA.
 V. 
V. CONSERVABAT IN CORDE.
 VI. 
VI. THE KINDLY TRANSIENCE.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. MARIÆ CLIENS.
 IX. 
IX. IN MORTE TUTAMEN.
 X. 
X. SPECULUM JUSTITIÆ.
 XI. 
XI. AUXILIUM CHRISTIANORUM.
 XII. 
XII.
 XIII. 
XIII. AB ETERNO ORDINATA.
 XIV. 
XIV.
 XV. 
XV.
 XVI. 
XVI. IDOLATRIA.
 XVII. 
XVII. ‘IN HIM WE HAVE OUR BEING.’
 XVIII. 
XVIII. TOTA PULCHRA.
 XIX. 
XIX. ‘AD NIVES.’
 XX. 
XX. FEST. PURITATIS.
 XXI. 
XXI.
 XXII. 
XXII. STELLA MATUTINA.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. MADE SUBJECT TO VANITY.
 XXV. 
XXV. MATER DIVINÆ GRATIÆ.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. MATER DIVINÆ GRATIÆ.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. DETACHMENT.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. THE BEGINNING OF MIRACLES.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. FILIA MARIÆ.
 XXX. 
XXX. EXPECTATIO.
 XXXI. 
XXXI.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. ‘JESUS AND HIS MOTHER WERE THERE.’
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. LUMEN NUPTIARUM.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. ‘WHEN THOU HAST SET MY HEART AT LIBERTY.’
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. GRATIÆ PLENA.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. VAS INSIGNE DEVOTIONIS.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT.
 XL. 
XL. THE ‘SINGLE EYE.’
 XLI. 
XLI. MYSTICA.
 XLII. 
XLII. BEATI QUI AUDIUNT VERBUM DEI.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. AUTHENTIC THEISM.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. ‘TESTE DAVID CUM SIBYLLA.’
 XLV. 
XLV. ‘TESTE DAVID CUM SIBYLLA.’
 XLVI. 
XLVI. ‘TESTE DAVID CUM SIBYLLA.’
 XLVII. 
XLVII. DEUS ABSCONDITUS.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII. THE VEIL.
 XLIX. 
XLIX. ‘THE SECRET OF GOD IS WITH THEM THAT FEAR HIM.’
 L. 
L. JANUA CŒLI.
 LI. 
LI.
 LII. 
LII. CAUSA NOSTRÆ LÆTITIÆ.
 LIII. 
LIII. STELLA MARIS.
 LIV. 
LIV. AARONIS VIRGA.
 LV. 
LV. UNICA.
 LVI. 
LVI. REGINA PROPHETARUM.
 LVII. 
LVII.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. TURRIS DAVIDICA.
 LIX. 
LIX. ‘TU SOLA INTEREMISTI OMNES HÆRESES.’
 LX. 
LX. UT ACIES ORDINATA.
 LXI. 
LXI.
 LXII. 
LXII. SEDES SAPIENTIÆ.
 LXIII. 
LXIII. TRUTH.
 LXIV. 
LXIV. IMPLICIT FAITH.
 LXV. 
LXV. MATER VIVENTIUM.
 LXVI. 
LXVI. GEUS NON SANCTA.
 LXVII. 
LXVII. MATER VENERABILIS.
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII.
 LXIX. 
LXIX. THE FOURTH DOLOUR.
 LXX. 
LXX. REFUGIUM PECCATORUM.
 LXXI. 
LXXI. THE FIFTH DOLOUR.
 LXXII. 
LXXII. STABAT MATER.
 LXXIII. 
LXXIII. REGINA MARTYRUM.
 LXXIV. 
LXXIV. THE SIXTH DOLOUR.
 LXXV. 
LXXV. THE SEVENTH DOLOUR.
 LXXVI. 
LXXVI. MATER DOLOROSA.
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PART III. MARIÆ IN CŒLIS.
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LEGENDS OF THE SAXON SAINTS.
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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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XLV. ‘TESTE DAVID CUM SIBYLLA.’

(Plato.)

He looked on the transcendent light,
And, by the greatness of the fall
Measuring the unfallen Spirit's height
That Spirit deemed the body's thrall.
He knew the light, but not the love,
The sin, but not that Cross of shame
Which raised us sinless spheres above!
Perhaps in death that knowledge came
In death that vision o'er him stood
Which all atoned, and all sufficed,
That Vision of Incarnate God,
The Mother-maid, the Infant Christ!
Perhaps, where'er the heart is pure
In Gentile or in Christian lands,
Despite dim clouds of faith obscure
By dying beds that Vision stands
To ripen in a moment's space
Truth's harvest, slumbering long in seed,
And fit—to meet the Judge's face—
With love in fear the Spirit freed!
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