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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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