Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

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 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 withinWe trace a holier symbol; yea, a sign 'Twixt God and man; a record of that hourWhen 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 eyesWhen, 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 punishmentHeavier 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. External links Category:1788 births Category:1846 deaths Category:Poets from Ireland