As a literary figure and artist, the poet of the Portrait of Dorian Gray, and "De Profundis," belongs without a doubt to the immortals.

But then would not the world be the poorer without "De Profundis," let us ask?

A WITHERED ROSE-BUD DE PROFUNDIS THE MOTHER SONNETDATUR HORA QUIETI SEA MARGINS SONG"LOVE TOOK ME SOFTLY BY THE HAND" THE BELL LLEWELLYN A SHELL THE RAVEN SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

DE PROFUNDIS.

Here is one good stanza from his De Profundis: But thou art good, and hast of mercy store; Thou not delight'st to see a sinner fall; Thou hearkenest first, before we come to call; Thine ears are set wide open evermore; Before we knock thou comest to the door.

The honorarium offered was enormous for a poor ill-treated player whose very soul was ready to sing De Profundis.

I am inclined to think that it was on this day he composed the following Ode upon the Isle of Sky, which a few days afterwards he shewed me at Rasay: ODA, Ponti profundis clausa recessibus, Strepens procellis, rupibus obsita, Quam grata defesso virentem Skia sinum nebulosa pandis.

This should be followed by Suspiria de Profundis (1845), which is chiefly a record of gloomy and terrible dreams produced by opiates.

He strikes a deeply sorrowful and passionate note in The Haunted Palace and De Profundis.

Ave Imperatrix; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; De Profundis (prose).

elegiac, epicedial^. Adv. de profundis

[Lat.], sing de profundis [Lat.]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon &c (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn by experience.

The parish priest assists in surplice and black stole; the clerks carry the holy water and cross; the coffin is first sprinkled with holy water and the psalm De Profundis recited; then the corpse is carried to the church while the Miserere is said....

I have been accustomed lately to hear sacred music, and the De Profundis made a great impression upon me.'

To us, some of those wildest "Rob the Ranter" bursts of blackguardism are most deeply mournful, hardly needing that the sympathies which they stir up should be heightened by the little scraps of prayer and bitter repentance, which lie up and down among their uglier brethren, the disjecta membra of a great "De Profundis," perhaps not all unheard.

"They are blasting below us," cries the Colonel, de profundis.

'De profundis clamavi.'

[the Captain] has gone East must be an error we have not seen or heard of him here M L H" DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI!

He may die amid applauses on the stage, but at his natural death, he must pass to his grave, without a prayer or de profundis, unless a minister of religion receives his last sigh.

The "De Profundis" pealed from the high altar, and Henry the Great was gathered to his ancestors.

De profundis, being the first complete and accurate version of Epistola: in carcerelet vinculis, the last prose work of Oscar Wilde.

De profundis; edited by Robert Ross.

To this rare piece some body humorously perswaded him to take for his motto, De profundis clamavi.

Were its fronting precipices organs, with their mountainous columns and pilasters for organ-pipes, they might produce a de profundis worthy of the scene and of its sentiments, its inspiration.

How often had Des Esseintes not thrilled under its spell, when the "Christus factus est" of the Gregorian chant rose from the nave whose pillars seemed to tremble among the rolling clouds from censers, or when the "De Profundis" was sung, sad and mournful as a suppressed sob, poignant as a despairing invocation of humanity bewailing its mortal destiny and imploring the tender forgiveness of its Savior!