 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...  The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Page xixby Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Home. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand ! The agate... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Here is a stanza of Swinburne's, of which Collins once declared his especial... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the granieur that was Rome. Here is a stanza of Swinburne's, of which Collins once declared his especial... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that...! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are holy land ! EA Pa t. SERENADE. THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee : And like music on... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs, have brought me home To the glory that...hand! Ah Psyche, from the regions which Are holy land ! 1 This is the form of the poem which obtained, I presume, the ultimate approval of its author. An... | |
 | William James Linton - African Americans - 1878 - 466 pages
...gently o'er a perfumed sea On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs, have brought me home To the glory that...was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in your brilliant window-niche How statue-like 1 see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand ! Ah,... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo r in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that...Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are holy land! £. A. r<n. SERENADE. I 6 I SERENADE. THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee :... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo I in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand 1 The agate lamp within thy hand,... | |
 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pages
...his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that...Ah ! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! It is the tendency of the young poet that impresses us. Here is no "withering scorn," no heart "blighted"... | |
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