 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
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 2003 - 170 pages
...would otherwise look distra'ctingly wrong. POEMS To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicéan barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The...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,... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...crime Did it not tremble with the strings! 1829 To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean1 barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The...native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth2 hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad3 airs have brought me home To thy glory that was Greece,... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 156 pages
...new poems (often to be reworked) was "To Helen." In it, the poet is a wanderer who longs to be home: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome. According to the biographer Kenneth Silverman,... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth2 hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad' airs have brought me home To thy glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nic&n barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, TTie weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore....brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lot in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, Hie agate... | |
 | Eliot Clarke - History - 2003 - 290 pages
...reads like a Shakespearean sonnet in its sentiment, alliterative elegance and classical allusions. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...That gently, o'er a perfumed sea The weary, way-worn wander bore To his own native shore. There were other American poets of note James Russell Lowell,... | |
 | Eliza Richards - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 264 pages
...PS255.N5R53 2004 811'. 30997471 - dc22 2003069737 ISBN o 521 83281 o hardback In memory of Ann, and for Raul Helen thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore . . . Poe, "To Helen" The face was my lover's face. Do you know those white, waterlily magnolias? I... | |
 | Lorraine LaCroix - Education - 2005 - 161 pages
...her sepulcher there by the sea — In her tomb by the side of the sea. To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe Helen. thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...hair. thy classic face. Thy Naiad airs have brought home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche... | |
 | William F. Hecker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 256 pages
...plunder. In closing, let us take up one last time the crafted coincidence of martial names in Poe: Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'ra perfum'd sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. 154 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII... | |
 | James M. Hutchisson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 316 pages
...statuesque, and unattainable: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, They naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. The closing couplet of that stanza is among Poe's most memorable verses. It... | |
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