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" 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... "
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A Treasury of American Verse

Walter Learned - American poetry - 1897 - 338 pages
...Some sea-like glimpse of thee. LUCY LAKCOM. 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 Nai'ad airs have brought...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 pages
...Auber, This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." H TO HELEN ELEN, 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 native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face. Thy Naiad airs...
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Poet's Walk: An Introduction to English Poetry

Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...to the willing mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 177 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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The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Poems and Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 228 pages
...this might swell From my lyre within the sky. TO HELEN.* 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. * On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, 51. Compare with the close...
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Mezzotints in Modern Music: Brahms, Tchaïkowsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss ...

James Huneker - Music - 1899 - 336 pages
...more exquisite music in his later years. You remember 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. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought...
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The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry

John Phelps Fruit - 1899 - 166 pages
...his state of mind with reference to Beauty and Art. " 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. " On desperate seas long wont to roam, , Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs, have...
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The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5

Bibliography - 1900 - 532 pages
...the most beautiful lyric of our own, or any, language: "Helen! Thy beauty is to me Like those Niceau 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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The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: With Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe, John Henry Ingram - 1902 - 270 pages
...hangs upon the trees, A mystery of mysteries! 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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An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...golden-sphered persimmons spread o'er all. 3Ulan TO HELEN HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicu'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, Thv hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Tliy Naiad nirs, have brought...
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An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 966 pages
...ilden-sphered persimmons spread o'er all. ЗШап TO HELEN HELEN, 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 owu native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad...
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