Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
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!
On the afternoon of June 11, 1814, George Gordon, Lord Byron, upon seeing his cousin Lady Anne Wilmot Horton in “a mourning dress of spanglet black”, was moved that by the next day he had written “She Walks in Beauty”, first published in Hebrew Melodies in 1815. As “idealized” woman, Byron’s cousin Anne stands as an icon of love that reflect “days spent pondering the intricacies of adoration for hearts whose love is innocent” (Martin, 1948) through the use of symbols the writer is natural and subjective.
In a lyrical poem "She Walks in Beauty," the writer uses pronouns for the third person: she, her, their – “she walks in beauty”; “in her aspect and her eyes”; “her face”; “their dwelling place”. In this instructive poem Byron utilizes numerous metaphors to describe the beauty of his cousin, a rather "prim and pretty" girl that "after a tumbler of brandy and a consequently bad night," In his most entrancing lines--"She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies." Byron is comparing her with the beauties of the natural world, for her loveliness is "cloudless" like the dark and starry night and her "aspect" or physicality is imbued with "all that’s best of dark and bright" which symbolizes her dual nature as a woman of varying temperaments. Yet Byron’s main focus in this poem is upon the woman’s head and face, where "the nameless grace. . . waves in every raven tress, being her...

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