KING ETHELBERT OF KENT AND SAINT AUGUSTINE. THE CONSECRATION OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY. THE PENANCE OF SAINT LAURENCE. KING SIGEBERT OF EAST ANGLIA, AND HEIDA THE PROPHETESS. KING SIGEBERT OF ESSEX, OR A FRIEND AT NEED. KING OSWALD OF NORTHUMBRIA, OR THE BRITON'S REVENGE. CEADMON THE COWHERD, THE FIRST ENGLISH POET. KING OSWY OF NORTHUMBRIA, OR THE WIFE'S VICTORY . THE VENGEANCE OF THE MONKS OF BARDENEY . HOW SAINT CUTHBERT KEPT HIS PENTECOST AT CARLISLE. SAINT FRIDESWIDA, OR THE FOUNDATIONS OF OXFORD . THE BANQUET HALL OF WESSEX, OR THE KING WHO COULD SEE. A LIST OF C. KEGAN PAUL AND CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. BY Aubrey de Vere Hic sunt in fossa BedÆ Venerabilis ossa (Old Inscription) LONDON (The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved) TO THE VENERABLE BEDE 'Mid quiet vale or city lulled by night Well-pleased the wanderer, wakeful on his bed, Hears from far Alps on fitful breeze the sound Of torrents murmuring down their rocky glens, Strange voice from distant regions, alien climes:— Should these far echoes from thy legend-roll Delight of loftier years, these echoes faint, Thus waken, thus make calm, one restless heart In our distempered day, to thee the praise, Voice of past times, O Venerable Bede! |