 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 Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 115by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...find occasionally in Edgar Poe, as in :— Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nic^an barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn...brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Here is a stanza of Swinburne's, of which Collins once declared his especial... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 pages
...unclasp'd at night. A, Tennyson. 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...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, Psyche, from the... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." 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...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 Psyche, from the... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 pages
...unclasp'd at night. .4. Teanyiaa. TO HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nic6an barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea The weary, way-worn...that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo r in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 pages
...her tomb by the sounding sea. 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...brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Koine. Lo, in your brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 466 pages
...TO HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently o'er a perfumed sea On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in your brilliant window-niche How statue-like 1 see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand ! Ah,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...MerediUt (Lord Lytim), 16o TO HELEN. 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...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, Psyche, from the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...trees, A mystery of mysteries 1 TO HELEN. ELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn...that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo I in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand 1 The agate lamp within thy hand,... | |
 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pages
...contradictory phrase of innate experience.' " " Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Niczan barks of yore That gently o'er a perfumed sea The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. ' ' " In a letter now before us " (continues the lady), "written within a twelvemonth of his death,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...trees, A mystery of mysteries ! TO HELEN. HELEN, thy beanty is to me Like those Nicenn barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn...wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate sens long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To... | |
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