To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe * Track #2 On Poems
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To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
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Though Poe is mostly known for his dark and horrifying poems, he also has written soft romantic poem such as To Helen.
First published in Poems (1831), To Helen is full of mythological imagery and consists of three quintains in iambic tetrameter with random rhyme patterns.
To Helen Annotated
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore
That gently, o'er a perfum'd 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 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!