Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet
Irish poet
Sir Aubrey (Hunt) de Vere, 2nd Baronet (28 August 1788 – 5 July 1846) was an Anglo-Irish poet and landowner. He was the father of poet Aubrey Thomas de Vere.
Quotes
edit- Art thou a type of beauty, or of power,
Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
For each thy name denoteth, Passion flower!
O no! thy pure corolla's depth within
We trace a holier symbol; yea, a sign
'Twixt God and man; a record of that hour
When the expiatory act divine
Cancelled that curse which was our mortal dower.
It is the Cross!- A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises and Sonnets, "The Passion Flower"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 581.
- O Love-star of the unbeloved March,
When cold and shrill,
Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch
The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,
And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!- Ode to the Daffodil; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 155.
- How blue were Ariadne's eyes
When, from the sea's horizon line,
At eve, she raised them on the skies!
My Psyche, bluer far are thine.- Psyche; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 246.
- Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
- Widowhood; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 506.
- There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.- A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and Sonnets; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 384.
- Man should be ever better than he seems.
- A Song of Faith; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 326.
