The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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TO HELEN  
HELEN, thy beauty is to me  
Like those Nicean barks of yore,  
That gently, o'er a perfumed 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 me thee stand,  
The agate lamp within thy hand!  
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which  
Are Holy-land!  
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THE VALLEY OF UNREST  
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