 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...  The Blue Poetry Book - Pagina 108geredigeerd door - 1891 - 348 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Malcolm Lowry, Chris Ackerley - 1992 - 460 pagina’s
...spent much of his later life in Kenya. 16:3 over a wayward sea: echoing the opening lines of Poe's To Helen': 'Helen, thy beauty is to me / Like those...wayworn wanderer bore / To his own native shore.' 16:8 whiffenpoof: The Whiffenpoof Song' first appeared in a 1918 Yale songbook, though it was composed... | |
 | Morton Gurewitch - 1994 - 270 pagina’s
...apposite" (163). Indeed, it wittily consummates Dennis's devotion-by-quotation: Aimee, thy beauty was to me, Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently,...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 pagina’s
...length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1 849) TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean...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 I see thee stand,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1995 - 60 pagina’s
...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...classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glorv that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in von brilliant window-niche How statue-like... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagina’s
...her massive sandal set on stone. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, (1892-1950) US poet. "Euclid Alone Has 7 Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...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... | |
 | Guy Davenport - 1997 - 404 pagina’s
...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...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 I see thee stand,... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - 1997 - 124 pagina’s
...can do with some mythological allusions. PART I WORKSHEET 4 LEARNING TO READ THE LANGUAGE OF ALLUSION Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...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... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pagina’s
...University Press, 1977. Zayed, Georges. The Genius of Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge, Mass.: Schwenkman, 1985. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean...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 I see thee stand,... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - 872 pagina’s
...approach perfection, illustrates not only Poe's standards, but also certain general laws of versification: "Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks...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 I see thee stand,... | |
 | Tom McArthur - 1998 - 308 pagina’s
...That gently, o'er the perfumed sea, a The weary way-worn wanderer bore b To his own native shore. b On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth...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... | |
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