To Helen / Poe, Edgar Allen

Author: Poe, Edgar Allen
Title: To Helen
Publisher: Eris Etext Project
Tag(s): literature; allen; nicean; helen; regions; yore; barks; edgar; beauty; hair; allan; poe; american; american literature
Contributor(s): Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
Versions: original; local mirror; HTML (this file); printable
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Rights: GNU General Public License
Size: 94 words (really short) Grade range: 8-10 (high school) Readability score: 72 (easy)
Identifier: poe-to-715
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                                      1831
                                    TO HELEN
                               by Edgar Allan Poe

       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 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 lamp within thy hand!
       Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
         Are Holy Land!
                          -THE END-
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