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... Southern Literary Messenger - الصفحة 2381835عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Lander Weber - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...To HELEN Helen, thy "beauty is to me Like those "Nicaean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn "wanderer bore To his own...face, Thy "Naiad airs, have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rorne. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...(131:5). THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME - From Edgar Allan Poe's (180949) "To Helen" (1831, 1845), stanza 2: "On desperate seas long wont to roam, / Thy hyacinth...face, / Thy Naiad airs have brought me home / To the glory that was Greece, / And the grandeur that was Rome." 7.489 (131:12). Cloacae - Sewers or toilet... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...sea. 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...classic face, Thy Naiad airs 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... | |
| Kenneth Silverman - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...adventurer with the instincts of a cottager, a "weary, way-worn wanderer," famously, who longs to be home: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the beauty affair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome. The lines savor of Edgar's fabrications of his voyages... | |
| Alberta Turner - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...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...classic face, Thy Naiad airs 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... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 1172
...beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, (1. 1—2) 45 On desperate seas long wont to roam. The . . . glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. (1. 6—10) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; AWP; BoLoP; CH;... | |
| Jay Parini - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...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...classic face, Thy Naiad airs 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... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 666
...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...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,... | |
| Guy Davenport - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...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...classic face, Thy Naiad airs 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... | |
| Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 872
...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...classic face, Thy Naiad airs 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... | |
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