“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 45.
Beppo (1818)
“Her heart and lip were music, albeit one
Who marvell'd at what her sweet self had done;
Who breathed for Love, and pined to find that Fame
In answer to her lute's soft summons came;
See, the eye droops in sadness, as to shun
That which it dared not gaze on, Glory's sun.”
(1825-2) Ideal Likenesses. Erinna
The Monthly Magazine
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George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos
Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
George Darley (1795–1846) Irish poet, novelist, and critic
Poem Sweet in her green dell http://www.bartleby.com/101/640.html
“One sweet whisper from her came;
And he drank to catch her breath, —
Wine and sigh alike are death!”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. II. A Supper of Madame de Brinvilliers
The Monthly Magazine
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist
At the age of 12, her description of a bride at an Indian wedding.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil
“Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes”
Jackie DeShannon (1941) American singer-songwriter
"Bette Davis Eyes" (1975); written with Donna Weiss
“But so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Bianca Among the Nightingales http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3035&poem=127031, st. 12 (1862).
“The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief