"To Helen", by Edgar Allan Poe
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The 1845 revision. I thought it would be nice to do... *something*... here on bitchute, so I decided to do poetry readings. Not the stuff you always hear all the time, but Poe and Baudelaire, maybe some darker stuff if people enjoy what I'm doing here. Maybe some short stories too, although obviously even short stories can be fairly long when read aloud. We'll see how it goes.
This is my first attempt at an upload something of my own creation. Let me know if the audio is too loud, or if you prefer it at this volume. Personally I feel like I should probably back off the mic a bit for a softer rendition, but audio being too low is a frequent complaint on videos, especially from people just getting started. Feedback welcome!
The picture used is "The Love of Helen and Paris" by Jacques-Louis David.
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 see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!
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