 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 Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Página 115por Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 332 páginas
...Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn wanderer hore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont...brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Some. 205 Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue -like I see thee stand, The... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 388 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 páginas
...genlly, u'cr a perfumed sea. The wenry. way-worn wanderer bore To his own unlive shore. On desperate jens long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face. Thy Naiad aire h'm: lironght me homo To the glory thtt was Greece And the gnimleur that was Hooie. Ixi ! in yon... | |
 | Sarah Helen Whitman - 1860 - 96 páginas
...editions of his poems we give them here. " Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn...have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, To the grandeur that was Rome. Lol in yon brilliant window niche, How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 páginas
...the height of his poetical achievement. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea The weary, way-worn...hair, thy classic face. Thy Naiad airs have brought me homo To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur thst was Rome . . . Among the makers of his own... | |
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