 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...  American Poems (1625-1892) - Seite 205herausgegeben von - 1912 - 669 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1897 - 360 Seiten
...TT ELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore....! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land 1 EA POE. (fright C PARKLING and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in, With hue... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1897 - 420 Seiten
...Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of yore Which gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore....the grandeur that was Rome. ' Lo! in yon brilliant window niche. How statue-like I see thee stand, Thy agate lamp within thy hand— Ah, Psyche! from... | |
 | 1897 - 428 Seiten
...HELEN. LJ ELEN, 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....brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. ftelen Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand... | |
 | Walter Learned - 1897 - 338 Seiten
...HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore....classic face. Thy Nai'ad airs have brought me home To glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window niche How statue-like... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 Seiten
...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....! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! Edgar Allan Poe. 178 THE SWAN-NECK EVIL sped the battle-play On the Pope Ca'.ixtus' day ; Mighty... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 Seiten
...to the classic page — *" Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds' Painted Window." Cf. Poe, " To Helen " : " On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair,...brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome." Long have I loved to catch the simple chime Of minstrel harps, and spell the... | |
 | John Phelps Fruit - 1899 - 166 Seiten
...Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicsean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore....! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! " This is said too with an eye turned back to the past. And then, as if to emphasize that poetry... | |
 | James Huneker - 1899 - 336 Seiten
...it: 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....brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. I refrain from giving the third verse ; but are not these lines remarkable... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, John Henry Ingram - 1902 - 270 Seiten
...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....see thee stand! The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah ! Pysche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! ALONE. From childhood's hour I have not been As others... | |
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