 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 Southern literary messenger - Page 4791857Full view - About this book
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - Literature - 1845 - 660 pages
...native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, lay classic face, Thy Naiad aire have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How atatue-like I see thee stand ! The agate... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...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...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, The... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 386 pages
...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...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, The... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...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...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, The agate... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...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...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 ! The agate... | |
 | 1853 - 782 pages
...way-worn wanderer bore, To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth air, 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...language, here and there condensed into a majestic roll of words, such as in the three following lines: " Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome" — a strange union of dreamy with sculpturesque ideas and descriptions, seldom... | |
 | Idler - English literature - 1856 - 386 pages
...unfortunately for Mr. Massey's originality, Edgar Poe long since said — "On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs...brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Bome." A Lyric of Love, at page 98, commences — "The lark that nestles nearest... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1857 - 614 pages
...the glory of regallcst Rome which is not an improvement upon *' On desperate seas long wont to roam. Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me homei To tke glory that vas Greece, And the grandeur that vas Awnir. ' But aw a qualification to our... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 pages
...sea, The weary way-worn wanderer hore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs...brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Some. 205 Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue -like I see thee stand, The... | |
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