Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | I. Admiration | | To Helen | | Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| | | HELEN, thy beauty is to me | |
| Like those Nicæan barks of yore, | |
| That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, | |
| The weary, wayworn wanderer bore | |
| To his own native shore. | 5 |
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| 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. | 10 |
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| 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! | 15 | | | |
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