First published in an 1815 collection initiated by Isaac Nathan it was to be read with musical accompaniment, its true subject is Anne Wilmot whose poetical alter ego remains nameless in all three stanzas.
First published in an 1815 collection initiated by Isaac Nathan it was to be read with musical accompaniment, its true subject is Anne Wilmot whose poetical alter ego remains nameless in all three stanzas. These describe her as raven tressed, with a cheek "so soft, so calm, so eloquent" with "a heart whose love is innocent."  But the most famed lines describe the ways "all that's best of dark and bright/Meet in her aspect and her eyes." FTP identify this lyric the most famed of Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies, whose title completes the line, "like the night."
First published in an 1815 collection initiated by Isaac Nathan it was to be read with musical accompaniment, its true subject is Anne Wilmot whose poetical alter ego remains nameless in all three stanzas.
She Walks in Beauty