 | Alberta Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 228 pages
...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...Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! EDGAR ALLAN POE The Waking I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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! The Bells I Hear the sledges with the bells — How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1995 - 60 pages
...home To the glorv that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in von brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holv-Land! Nicaean-from the ancient Byzantine city of Nicaea, now the Turkish city of Iznik wont-usec/... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...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! THE CITY IN THE SEA Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 236 pages
...which the woman is, to a degree that amazes, an aesthetic object: Lo, in your brilliant window-niche, How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand Selden, were he not an untalented dilletante, might have written something along those lines about... | |
 | Guy Davenport - Literary Collections - 1997 - 404 pages
...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...Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! The words are as magic as Keats, but what is the sense? Sappho, whom Poe is imitating, had compared... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 872 pages
...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!" I print it as it was perfected, through Poe's various alterations, in the Philadelphia... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...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! POSSIBLY BEGUN AS EARLY AS 1823; FIRST PUBLISHED 1831, REVISED THEREAFTER THROUGH 1845.... | |
 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...L7. . L10.. ? 49 ? 4. Describe the mood of this poem. PasSa 驼 5 Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand 1 Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land J Questions: 1. This is the last stanza of a poem... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...the poem makes explicit, shows the high cost of Poe's adoration: Lo! In yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within...Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! Helen is transformed, first, into an art-object: a statue, frozen in place, as good as dead. And second,... | |
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... 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... 
