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in reply to a message by Agata
Your name Agata is very close to the name of the gemstone Agate.
When I told Poe that he reminded me of the time when Helen stood in a window niche and made him feel as if he had come home at last.
To Helen
by Edgar Allan Poe
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
to 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.
When I told Poe that he reminded me of the time when Helen stood in a window niche and made him feel as if he had come home at last.
To Helen
by Edgar Allan Poe
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
to 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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