She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron - Page 296by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Nevins Lord - Bible as literature - 1854 - 316 pages
...wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And mate him stoop to the vale." SlIAKBPEARE. " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that 's best of dark and light Meet in her aspect and her eyes." BTHON. "As when devouring flames some... | |
| Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...paradise of lips and eyes, Blush-tinted cheeks, half smiles, and faintest sighs. Endymion Keats. 92 She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes...starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes. Byron. 93 A tender, timid maid ! who knows not how To pass a pigsty,... | |
| David Nevins Lord - English language - 1855 - 324 pages
...rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale." SHAKSFKABK. " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that 's best of dark and light Meet in her aspect and her eyes." BYBON. "As when devouring flames some... | |
| Eliza B. Davis - American fiction - 1856 - 300 pages
...Wo loved thee passing well: then wert a beam Of pleasant beauty on this stormy sea." CHAPTER XVII. " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies/' AFFAIRS at Glendale Farm had changed... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...not all a dream. Lara. Canto i. St. 2. Lord of himself, — that heritage of woe ! Hebrew Melodies. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that 's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mellowed to that tender light... | |
| William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 130 pages
...Unfolding every hour ; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow'r. COWPER, 1800. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. BYRON, 1824. The umbrageous oak in pomp outspread, Full oft, when storms the welkin rend, Draws lightning... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...all the bright butterflies and grey grasshoppers on the plain or in the town of Troy. " She walk'd in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." Yet was she plague, pestilence, and lingering death. But try not to withhold from her your admiration... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...all the bright butterflies and grey grasshoppers on the plain or in the town of Troy. " She walk'd in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." Yet was she plague, pestilence, and lingering death. But try not to withhold from her your admiration... | |
| American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
..."she looks like moonlight and starlight. 'She — walks — in beauty' — don't — you — know — 'like — the night — of — cloudless — climes...• — her — aspect — and — her — eyes.'" It was the first time that Eleanor Mason's daughter had ever seen a garden which had grown old by the... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...lo'es me. Lassie, let mo quickly die, Trusting tliat thou lo'es me. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. [BYlioir.] She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes...and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mcllow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less... | |
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