She walks in Beauty: Lord Byron

She walks in Beauty: Lord Byron

Text: She Walks in Beauty was written in 1814 by Lord Byron.The poem is about Mrs. Ann Beatrix Horton, the wife of Byron’s second cousin.

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And al that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies,

One shade the more, one ray the less
Had half impair’d the nameless glace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightness o’er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek and o’er that brow
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow
But tell of days in goodness spent,-
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.