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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

“She died in beauty”

Charles Doyne Sillery (1807–1837)

SHE died in beauty,—like a rose

Blown from its parent stem;

She died in beauty,—like a pearl

Dropped from some diadem.

She died in beauty,—like a lay

Along a moonlit lake;

She died in beauty,—like the song

Of birds amid the brake.

She died in beauty,—like the snow

On flowers dissolved away;

She died in beauty,—like a star

Lost on the brow of day.

She lives in glory,—like night’s gems

Set round the silver moon;

She lives in glory,—like the sun

Amid the blue of June.