Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (18141902)Extracts from Mediæval Records and Sonnets: Browning
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He sang with song’s discriminating love;
Thy towers that flash the wooded crag above;
Thy trellised vineyard’s purple overgrowth;
Thy matin balm; thy noontide’s pleasing sloth;
Thy convent bell, dim lake, and homeward dove;
Thine evening star that through the bowered alcove
Silvers the white flight of the circling moth.
He sang thy best and worst; false love, fierce war,
Renaissance craft, child-graces, saintly Art,
Old pomps from “Casa Guidi’s” Windows seen:
There dwelt he happy; there that Minstrel-Queen
Who shared his poet-crown but gladdened more
To hold unshared her Poet’s manly heart.