Excerpt from The Legend of Fair Helen: As Told by Homer, Goethe and Others
'Bewundert viel und viel gescholten, Helena.'
Goethe: Faust.
'A daughter of the Gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.'
Tennyson: A Dream of Fair Women.
'Die ewig bluhende Helena von Sparta.'
Heine: Elementargeister und Damonen.
'Fayre Helen, floure of beauty excellent.'
Spenser: Faerie Queene, book iii., ch. 9.
'Her whom, we know well, The world's large spaces cannot parallel.'
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, II. ii.
'The fairest woman that the poet's dream Or artist hand has fashioned.'
Sir Lewis Morris: Epic of Hades.
'Unendlich bedeutungsvoll ist die Erscheinung der schonen Helena in der Sage vom Doctor Faust.'
Heine: Der Doktor Faust.
'And from his lips broke forth a mighty cry of "Helen! Helen! Helen!"
William Morris: The Death of Paris.
'Death ends all tales, but this he endeth not.'
Andrew Lang: Helen of Troy.
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