She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellow’d to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.
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Lord Byron quotes & passages
1 passage by Lord Byron, from She Walks in Beauty. Lord Byron died in 1824, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824). Wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan; died in Greece at 36.
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