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description:  She walks in Beauty like the nightOr cloudless climes and starry skies;And all thats best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes...She Walks in Beauty is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron and is one of his most famous works.It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On June 11 1814 Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot wife of Byron's first cousin Sir Robert Wilmot. He was struck by her unusual beauty and the next morning the poem was written.Lord Byron or George Gordon Byron was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted and So We'll Go No More a-Roving in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential both in the English-speaking world and beyond.
language: English
title: She Walks in Beauty
publisher: None