 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 Arena - Page 1721904Full view - About this book
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1 849) TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...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 have brought... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1995 - 60 pages
...ship sent to bring him home from the sea. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of vore, 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 have brought... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - 1997 - 124 pages
...can do with some mythological allusions. PART I WORKSHEET 4 LEARNING TO READ THE LANGUAGE OF ALLUSION Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. —from Edgar Allan Poe's To Helen" (Nicean - Greek; baric - sailing ship) Poe wrote this poem for... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...her massive sandal set on stone. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, (1892-1950) US poet. "Euclid Alone Has 7 Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...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 have brought... | |
 | Guy Davenport - 1997 - 404 pages
...beautiful "To Helen," written when he was still a boy: Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean 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 have brought... | |
 | William Harmon - 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...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 have brought... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - 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...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 have brought... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 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... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 2000 - 548 pages
...expect the life unfolded from such a bud to have the sweetness and soft lustre of a rose: TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nice'an barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfum'd sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 314 pages
...perfection, Helen is not a flesh-and-blood woman but a dead woman—light, btight, white, and dead: Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...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 have brought... | |
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