 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...  The Land We Love - Σελίδα 451866Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 σελίδες
...Charlottes ville — noted for " intemperance " and " other vices," — writes about a girl : — TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand !... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 σελίδες
...such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. -y TO HE1EN. Helen, thy beamy is to me . Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently,...that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand ! The agate lamp within thy hand,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 776 σελίδες
...unqualified praise which his biographer awards it. TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicéan barks of yore, That gently o'er a perfumed sea, The...On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth air, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have ЬгоицМ me home To the glory that was Greece, And the... | |
 | 1853 - 782 σελίδες
...way-worn wanderer bore, To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth air, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Home. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche, How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 σελίδες
...language, here and there condensed into a majestic roll of words, such as in the three following lines: " Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome" — a strange union of dreamy with sculpturesque ideas and descriptions, seldom... | |
 | Idler - 1856 - 386 σελίδες
...glory of regalleat Home." But unfortunately for Mr. Massey's originality, Edgar Foe long since said — "On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome." A. Lyric of Love, at page 98, commences — "The lark that nestles nearest... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 σελίδες
...Helen, thy beauty la to me Like those Nlcean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea. The wenry, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On...that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo 1 in yon brUlinnt window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand! The sgute lump within thy hand. Ah!... | |
 | 1857 - 534 σελίδες
...glory of regallest Rome ; which reminds us very strongly of this stanza in Poe's lines " To Helen" — Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs...brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome : and again Mr. Massey says in " Craigcrook Castle," page 161, The Pansies,... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1857 - 614 σελίδες
...the beauty of Greece, fJu grand And the glory of regallcst Rome which is not an improvement upon *' On desperate seas long wont to roam. Thy hyacinth...hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me homei To tke glory that vas Greece, And the grandeur that vas Awnir. ' But aw a qualification to our... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 388 σελίδες
...eommuning with an angel's. *& - TO HELEN. ELEN, thy beauty is to rao Like those Nieeau barks of yove That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn...native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyaeinth hair, thy elassie faee, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greeee,... | |
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