 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 Blue Poetry Book - Side 198redigeret af - 1891 - 351 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, scholarships - 122 sider
...turned to blossoms where they fell, And sown the earth with flowers. 3. Translate into Latin Lyrics. To HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean...the glory that was Greece, To the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche, How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy... | |
 | 1835 - 842 sider
...TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfum'd sea, The weary wayworn 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... | |
 | 1914 - 650 sider
...and contains the familiar quotation about the ;lory of Greece and grandeur of Rome. It logins : — Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. What is the reference here ? So far as I am aware, no commentator — Poe or another — has supplied... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 sider
...following lines were written two years previous ; they exhibit great promise for a boy of thirteen. "TO HELEN. " Helen, thy beauty is to me, Like those...have brought me home) To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. " Lo ! in yon brilliant window niche, How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 sider
...previous ; they exhibit great promise for a boy of thirteen. "TO HELEN. " Helen, thy beauty is to me, Liks those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed...have brought me home, To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. " Lo ! in yon brilliant window niche, How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 sider
...previous ; they exhibit great promise for a boy of thirteen. "TO HELEN. " Helen, thy beauty is to me, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn...have brought me home, To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. " Lo ! in yon brilliant window niche, How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | 1850 - 824 sider
...o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To hi» own native shore. On desperate веаэ long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic...have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see tliee stand... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 sider
...written by him— By him who, as he pens them, thrills to think His spirit is communing with an angel's. TO HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean...have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 sider
...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,...have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 776 sider
...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... | |
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