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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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IX.

Love is historic; rests upon the past;
Still lingers lovingly on old detail;
Still, like the holy bells, rings out a tale
For ever new, from earliest to last:
Love is prophetic; climbing still the mast
Discerns of distant hope the signal pale,
And on the straining spar extends the sail
Withheld by colder counsels from the blast.
Mysterious delight in what is lost!
Wild half fruition of what may be won
By struggling perseverance, tempest-toss'd!
Yet love in silence wrapt and deep repose,
Whilst one short hour its hasty course can run,
May find more joy than many a lifetime knows!