 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
 | Guy Davenport - Literary Collections - 1997 - 404 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...And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 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. EDGAR ALLAN POE, (1809-1845) US poet, critic, short-story writer. "To Helen,"... | |
 | Douglas Robillard - Art - 1997 - 244 pages
...Allan Poe creates ekphrastically an ideal Helen as artwork, where "in yon brilliant window niche / How statue-like I see thee stand, / The agate lamp within thy hand!" His similarly ideal raven is posed "upon the sculptured bust" of Pallas Athene, goddess of wisdom and... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 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...within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land! POSSIBLY BEGUN AS EARLY AS 1823; FIRST PUBLISHED 1831, REVISED THEREAFTER THROUGH 1845.... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 872 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...within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land!" I print it as it was perfected, through Poe's various alterations, in the Philadelphia... | |
 | Tom McArthur - Communication studies - 1998 - 308 pages
...his own native shore. b 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. (Edgar Allen Poe, To Helen) • abcb It is an ancient Mariner, a And he stoppeth... | |
 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...following lines. LI. . L4. . L7. . L10.. ? 49 ? 4. Describe the mood of this poem. PasSa 驼 5 Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand 1 Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land J Questions: 1. This is the last stanza of a poem... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...within a dream. 8808 'To Helen' Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, ... ...Thy ey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, grandeur that was Rome. 8809 Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...stanza, as HD's later rewriting of the poem makes explicit, shows the high cost of Poe's adoration: Lo! In yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like...Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! Helen is transformed, first, into an art-object: a statue, frozen in place, as good as dead. And second,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 2000 - 548 pages
...native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hait, thy classic face, Thy Naiad aits have brought me home To the glory that was Greece...Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like 1 see thee stand! The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!... | |
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