 TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs...  The Land We Love - Page 451866Full view - About this book
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 298 pages
...Heaven had spared to me To see one sad ungathered rose On my ancestral tree. EDGAR ALLAN POE. To HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand 1... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat ! To HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand !... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...Methinks, I see him stand, As at that moment, with a bough Of wilding in his hand. WORDSWORTH. TO HELEN HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, To the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche, How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1891 - 288 pages
...Heaven had spared to me To see one sad ungathered rose On my ancestral tree. EDGAK ALLAN FOB. To HELKN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To Ms own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy... | |
 | American fiction - 1898 - 560 pages
...storm-shaken shallop of our poet is momentarily lulled and caressed. In his verses "To Helen" he sings: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Although this poem was written when Poe was only fourteen, the fact of its... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1893 - 1028 pages
...beauty, classic temple, as in the familiar fifteen lines forming the well-known lyric " To Helen " : Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nice'an barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sen, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam,... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Press, 1977. Zayed, Georges. The Genius of Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge, Mass.: Schwenkman, 1985. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah,... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 872 pages
...approach perfection, illustrates not only Poe's standards, but also certain general laws of versification: "Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah,... | |
 | Tom McArthur - Communication studies - 1998 - 308 pages
...That gently, o'er the perfumed sea, a The weary way-worn wanderer bore b To his own native shore. b On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. (Edgar Allen Poe, To Helen) • abcb It is an ancient Mariner, a And he stoppeth... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...8807 'A Dream within a Dream All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. 8808 'To Helen' other inspired by divine revelation. 680 The Advancement of ... ...Thy Naiad airs have brought me home, To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was... | |
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