 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...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 150edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, scholarships - 122 pages
...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 me home To the glory that was Greece, To the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche, How statue-like I see thee stand,... | |
 | 1850 - 772 pages
...shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic lace, Thy Naiad airs hare brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the...window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand The agate lamp within thy hand ! — Ah ! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! He wrote for newspapers,... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...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 me home To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome. Lo ! in that little window-niche How statue-like... | |
 | 1850 - 824 pages
...The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To hi» own native shore. On desperate веаэ long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs...in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see tliee stand The agate lamp within thy hand ! — Ah ! Psyche, from the region« which Are Holy Land!... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 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...the grandeur that was Rome. " Lo ! in yon brilliant window niche, How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah ! Psyche, from 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...window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand ! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! Could anything be more... | |
 | 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...window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand ! The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! It ie the tendency of... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 776 pages
...desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth air, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have ЬгоицМ me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur...window-niche, How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand ! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-land ! The present volume... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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