 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 - Seite 1771868Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 Seiten
...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 - 1994 - 270 Seiten
...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 - 1995 - 788 Seiten
...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 - 1995 - 60 Seiten
...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 - 1997 - 404 Seiten
...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 - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...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 - 1997 - 124 Seiten
...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 - 1997 - 872 Seiten
...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 - 1998 - 386 Seiten
...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 - 2001 - 314 Seiten
...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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