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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 5709 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 mellow’d to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Hebrew Melodies. She walks in Beauty. |
| Note 1. The subject of these lines was Mrs. R. Wilmot.—Berry Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 7. [back] |
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