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                 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!



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Jane Stith Stanard (d. 1824), the inspiration of the original version of "To Helen"

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thank you for sharing Edgar Allan Poe picture. Now I have an idea how he looks like. I remember him in my literature subject way back in high school.

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