She Walks in Beauty
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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 mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaud
Title page of the first edition of Hebrew Melodies, the first publication of the poem (May 1815)
Anne Wilmot-Horton
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Anne Beatrix Wilmot-Horton was an English amateur botanist who was the dedicatee of the plant genus Hortonia and of Lord Byron’s poem 'She Walks in Beauty'.
She Walks in Beauty
…1815. It is believed 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. He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. It is thought that…
Hortonia, a genus of flowering plant endemic to Sri Lanka, is named for Anne Wilmot-Horton.