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Helen, thy beauty is to me
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Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
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To his own native shore.
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On desperate seas long wont to roam,
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Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
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To the glory that was Greece
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And the grandeur that was Rome.
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Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand!
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The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
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Are Holy Land!
(1831)
[The following variants appear at the bottom of page 56:]
9 glory that was: beauty of fair (1831, S. L. M.).
10 And: To (Graham's [1841]) ; that was: of old (1831, S. L. M.).
11 yon brilliant: that little (1831, S. L. M.), that shadowy (Graham's [1841]).
13 agate lamp: folded scroll (1831, S. L. M., Graham's [1841]).
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - KCP, 1917] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - To Helen (ed. K. Campbell, 1917)