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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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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

ODE TO THE DAFFODIL.

A PICTURE OF HERODIAS' DAUGHTER BY LUINI.

ODE, WRITTEN BESIDE THE LAGO VARESE.

LINES COMPOSED NEAR SHELLEY'S HOUSE AT LERICI, ON ALL SOULS' DAY, 1856.

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I. WRITTEN AT VEVEY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1856.

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II. WRITTEN NEAR SPEZIA, OCTOBER 19, 1856.

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III. WRITTEN IN ISCHIA, FEBRUARY 1, 1859.

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IV. WRITTEN NEAR SPEZIA, 1864.

A MOTHER'S SONG.

A CHRISTIAN MAID.

A CHRISTIAN POETESS.

IN MEMORY OF EDWIN, EARL OF DUNRAVEN.

AN EPITAPH WITHOUT A NAME.

GENIUS AND SANCTITY.

THE MATERIALIST'S RELIGION;

ON A GREAT PLAGIARIST.

THE SERIOUS ‘VIVE LA BAGATELLE.’

TO A FORMALIST.

ON VISITING A HAUNT OF COLERIDGE'S.

LINES TO AN OLD LARCH-TREE AT CURRAGH CHASE.

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

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I. TO COLERIDGE.

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Written in early youth.

As one who lies, when day is almost done,
Rocked in a little boat upon a sea
Whose glassy billows heave eternally
Albeit the winds are lulled, watching the sun
That sinks behind those billows, and anon
Uprises, while the orange gleams that dye
The long, low windows of the western sky
Are imaged in the waters smooth and wan;
Coleridge! thus hang we on the mystic traces
Of that one Thought which feeds thy soul with light;
Thus falls the ‘Idea of the Infinite’
Dazzling our spirit-eyes, and up-turned faces;
Thus sinks, and reappears, and mocks our sight,
Absorbed once more in the great deep's embraces.