“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”
The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5
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Thomas Campion (1567–1620) English composer, poet and physician
I Care Not for These Ladies (1601), reported in Arthur Henry Bullen, More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (1888), p. 48.
“Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.”
Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,
Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
III, lines 1–4
Lord Byron's translation:
Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbia's favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.
Carmina
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), A Blue Valentine
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Non copre abito vil la nobil luce,
E quanto è in lei d'altero e di gentile;
E fuor la maesta regia traluce
Per gli atti ancor de l'esercizio umile.
Canto VII, stanza 18 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature. Quoted in LIFE, Editorials: "A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age", 26 May 1952
1950s
“The lady of the light, the rosy-fingered Morn,
Rose from the hills.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Book I, line 460, p. 11
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
