...of the sea. To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe Helen. thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore. That gently. o'er a perfumed sea. The weary. wayworn...hair. thy classic face. Thy Naiad airs have brought home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche...

...TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfum'd sea, The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native...classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome. Lo ! in that little window-niche How statue-like...

...statuesque, and unattainable: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, They naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. The closing couplet of that stanza is among Poe's most memorable verses. It...