Death & Dying
She Died in Beauty
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, vol. 4 (1855–57)
She died in beauty! like a rose
Blown from its parent stem;
She died in beauty! like a pearl
Dropp'd 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!
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MLA
Sillery, Charles Doyne. “She Died in Beauty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sillery/0/.
Chicago
Sillery, Charles Doyne. “She Died in Beauty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sillery/0/.
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