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Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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“Look up! the proof is round you written large; Your Faith is in the balance wanting found; Your shipless seas confess it; bridgeless streams; Your wasted wealth of ore, and moor, and bay. Beneath the Upas shade of Faith depraved All things lie dead -- wealth, comfort, freedom, power.”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sisters; or, Weal in Woe: An Irish Tale" in The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems (1861), pp. 3-42.
“Softly, O midnight hours! Move softly o'er the bowers Where lies in happy sleep a girl so fair: For ye have power, men say, Our hearts in sleep to sway And cage cold fancies in a moonlight snare.”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
“The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,— That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee.”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miscellaneous Poems, Song; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 484.
“When I was young, I said to Sorrow, "Come and I will play with thee!" He is near me now all day, And at night returns to say, "I will come again to-morrow— I will come and stay with thee.”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song, When I was Young I said to Sorrow; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 736.