 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...  Notes and Queries - Seite 4261914Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 608 Seiten
...WILLIAM HABINGTON. TO HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicsean 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 brought... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 Seiten
...GILBERT THE CLASSICAL TRADITION 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 brought... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 Seiten
...! Edgar Allan Poe 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...the sounding 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 native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought... | |
 | Malcolm Lowry, Chris Ackerley - 1992 - 460 Seiten
...lines of Poe's 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.' 16:8 whiffenpoof: The Whiffenpoof Song' first appeared in a 1918 Yale songbook, though it was composed... | |
 | Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 Seiten
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Guy Davenport - 1997 - 404 Seiten
...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
...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... | |
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