 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
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. 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, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 394 pages
...the moaning and the groaning of the bells. 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 - American literature - 1883 - 542 pages
...Poe that he was a copyist of Tennyson. — Ed. 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 brought... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1885 - 464 pages
...written at that or any age: — " Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicican barks of yore Which 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 - 1884 - 408 pages
...leapt In the tangles of Love's very hair ? 1829. 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 brought... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 304 pages
...think His spirit is communing with an angel's. 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 Blake - English poetry - 1885 - 330 pages
...of comparison, we here subjoin it — SONG TO HELEN. " Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nioean 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...Edition, Edited by Rufus Wilmot Grisioold. 1850.] TZTELEN, thy beauty is to me -*—*- Like those NicCan 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...Edrtion, Edited by Rufus Wilmoi Griswold. 1850.] TTELEN, thy beauty is to me -* — L Like those NicCan 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 1044 pages
...fifteen lines forming the well-known lyric " To Helen " : Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nice'an 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... | |
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