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"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. [2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...
She Walks in Beauty is a 2021 studio album by Australian multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis and British singer Marianne Faithfull putting music to British romantic poetry. Faithfull started recording it in 2020, [ 1 ] only finishing it during her recovery from a serious case of COVID-19 ; she has described the work as her dream project that she ...
She was born in 1788, the daughter of Eusebius Horton of Catton Hall, Derbyshire, and was co-heir to the estate with her sister Frances. [1] In 1806 she married Sir Robert John Wilmot, 3rd baronet. The couple hyphenated their surnames at the request of Anne’s father’s will in 1823.
The poem appears as "Go No More A-Roving" on the 2004 Leonard Cohen album Dear Heather.It was also recorded by Joan Baez on her 1964 Joan Baez/5 album, by Mike Westbrook on his 1998 album The Orchestra of Smith's Academy, and by Kris Delmhorst on her 2006 album Strange Conversation.
[9] [10] The eighth song is performed by a glee club from the school Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow: Eric Barnum's setting of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty". The vocal rendition comes from a 2008 recording by University of Redlands' Madrigal Singers. [11]
He walks the beach looking for sea glass. ... They enforced the law with a sound sense of context. ... She’s a faded beauty. Some wrinkles, a distraught expression, a great body in blue jeans.
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
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. (Lord Byron, She walks in Beauty, 1-6)