 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 - 2000 - 678 σελίδες
...cited as probable "sources" in the notes on lines 2-4 and 9-1o. The weary, way-worn wanderer bore 5 To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont...have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, 10 And the grandeur that was Rome. I,o! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 2000 - 548 σελίδες
...expect the life unfolded from such a bud to have the sweetness and soft lustre of a rose: TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nice'an barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfum'd sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 314 σελίδες
...perfection, Helen is not a flesh-and-blood woman but a dead woman—light, btight, white, and dead: Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon btilliant window-niche How statue-like I see the stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 σελίδες
...almost an island; a peninsula. L notare, notant, in heraldry, notant, natation, natatorium. supernatant. On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair,...brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. -Рое, То Helen (II) drip. Partly imitative, of dripping mucus and sniffling... | |
 | Felipe Fernández-Armesto - 2001 - 560 σελίδες
...great sea-god's dwelling shows where, with feeling, I hung my dripping kit.] — HORACE, Odes, 1.5 Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. — EDGAR ALLEN POE, "To Helen" The Plow and the Prow: A Conversation with... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 311 σελίδες
...perfection, Helen is not a flesh-and-blood woman but a dead woman — light, bright, white, and dead: Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gentry, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn, wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 σελίδες
...my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore! To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand!... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 σελίδες
...beautiful woman, "that Loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone." Therefore, Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. among the realities of this world brings him "home" to his "own native shore." From 1831 to 1835 P°e... | |
 | Caroline Winterer - 2002 - 274 σελίδες
...antebellum era was summed up most memorably in these lines from Edgar Allan Foe's 1831 poem To Helen: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.81 The rise of Greece as an alternative locus for aesthetic and literary cultivation... | |
 | Eugene V. Moran - 2002 - 302 σελίδες
...any actual woman and more about an ideal of beauty that can exist only in the imagination. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nice'an barks...yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-wom wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair,... | |
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