TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have... Notes and Queries - Page 1771868Full view - About this book
| Alberta Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 228 pages
...BENJAMIN PERET Translated by Michael Benedikt 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. T On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought... | |
| Morton Gurewitch - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 270 pages
...wittily consummates Dennis's devotion-by-quotation: Aimee, thy beauty was 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. (162-63) Neither chivalry nor remorse nor romantic claptrap stirs Waugh's detached protagonist. While... | |
| Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...unresting sea! Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1 849) 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 have brought... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1995 - 60 pages
...ship sent to bring him home from the sea. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of vore, 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 have brought... | |
| Guy Davenport - Literary Collections - 1997 - 404 pages
...beautiful "To Helen," written when he was still a boy: Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean 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 have brought... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...VINCENT MILLAY, (1892-1950) US poet. "Euclid Alone Has 7 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 have brought... | |
| Aileen M. Carroll - Mythology - 1997 - 124 pages
...WORKSHEET 4 LEARNING TO READ THE LANGUAGE OF ALLUSION Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The...weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. —from Edgar Allan Poe's To Helen" (Nicean - Greek; baric - sailing ship) Poe wrote this poem for... | |
| Arthur Hobson Quinn - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 872 pages
...standards, but also certain general laws of versification: "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 have brought... | |
| William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Allan Poe. Cambridge, Mass.: Schwenkman, 1985. 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 have brought... | |
| J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...woman but a dead woman—light, btight, white, and dead: 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 have brought... | |
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