• She died in beauty,—like a rose
      Blown from its parent stem;
    She died in beauty,—like a pearl
      Dropped 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...