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 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.