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.