 TO 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. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have...  Notes and Queries - Page 1771868Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 200 pages
...think His spirit is communing with an angel's. TO HELEX. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Xicean 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... | |
 | Glasgow Academical Club - English literature - 1870 - 138 pages
...is said to have been written in his early youth : — "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. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought... | |
 | Literature - 1921 - 868 pages
...Cemetery where lie the ashes of the woman to whom he wrote: 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. For his sake an occasional pilgrim still lays a flower on the grave within this plot on which, beneath... | |
 | 1873 - 388 pages
...heightens the statuesqueness and antique charm of the poem. "Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaen barks of yore, That gently o'er a perfumed sea The...weary, wayworn 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... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...Auber, This 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 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 - 1876 - 522 pages
...hangs upon the trees, A mystery of mysteries 1 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 have brought... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty Is to me Like thoie Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea. The weary, way-worn wanderer bora To his own native shore. On riesperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...movement we 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 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... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...Auber, This 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 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 James Linton - African Americans - 1878 - 470 pages
...by the sea, In 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 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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