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1815 [lord-byron] She Walks in Beauty
Hebrew Melodies

Byron's celebrated lyric of feminine grace, finding in one woman's face the perfect union of dark and bright, inner virtue and outward loveliness.

#lyric #beauty #portrait #1810s
1815 [lord-byron] The Destruction of Sennacherib
Hebrew Melodies

In thundering anapests Byron retells the annihilation of the Assyrian host — gleaming one evening at sunset, silent and dead by dawn, melted by the Lord's glance.

#biblical #narrative #war #1810s

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