The title of the composition is taken from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan 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!
- ISMN: 9790004182567 (M004182567)