Poetry Month 4: A Recitation of "She Walks in Beauty"

Concluding Poetry Month, we harken back to Victorian poets with, perhaps, the most famous poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824).

Byron's 1814 poem "She Walks in Beauty" has been read and beloved for generations. It has even been set to music a staggering number of times, but I hope the words alone will do.

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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.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens 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!