Poetry Codex

Victorian

Aubrey de Vere

1814–1902

Aubrey de Vere was born at Curragh Chase, County Limerick, and published poetry, criticism and travel writing. He became a Roman Catholic in 1851.

His Irish poems include The Wedding of the Clans and The Bard Ethell. He is not to be confused with Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.

Major Works (2)

  1. The Foray of Queen Meave — Epic poem, 1882
  2. The Legends of Saint Patrick — Narrative poems, 1872

Poems (33)

  1. The Wedding of the Clans (A Girl's Babble)
  2. The Little Black Rose
  3. Song
  4. The Bard Ethell (Ireland in the Thirteenth Century)
  5. Dirge of Rory O'More
  6. Epitaph
  7. The Ballad of the Bier that Conquered
  8. The Ballad of "Bonny Portmore"
  9. A Ballad of Sarsfield
  10. A Ballad of Athlone
  11. Sorrow
  12. The Dignity of Sorrow
  13. I love you, pretty maid, for you are young
  14. Softly, o midnight Hours!
  15. Sense, Faith, and Glory
  16. Song
  17. The Sun-God
  18. Implicit Faith
  19. Know what thou know'st! He knoweth much
  20. The Sons of Usnach
  21. The Children of Lir
  22. An Epicurean's Epitaph
  23. Flowers I would bring if flowers could make thee fairer
  24. Human Life
  25. Love's Spite
  26. The Queen's Vespers
  27. Cardinal Manning
  28. Oh that the pines which crown yon steep
  29. Song ("Sing the old song, amid the sounds dispersing")
  30. Coleridge
  31. Stronger and steadier every hour
  32. Expectatio
  33. A sudden sun-burst in the woods

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