Aubrey Thomas de Vere was an Irish poet and critic.
“When I was young, I said to Sorrow,
"Come and I will play with thee!"”
He is near me now all day,
And at night returns to say,
"I will come again to-morrow—
I will come and stay with thee."
Song, When I was Young I said to Sorrow; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 736.
Miscellaneous Poems, Song; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 484.
Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
"The Sisters; or, Weal in Woe: An Irish Tale" in The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems (1861), pp. 3-42.
