Jude Kennelly: “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.†Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)
Brittney Inabnit: Wordsworth's Daffodils.
Barrett Felicia: The long fantasy story poem The Ice Princess by Theodore Svea has stanzas with beauty. In the book a prince has his heart, memories, and crown stolen by a cold and cruel unattainable beauty.Also, Lord Byron's opening couplet to “She Walks In Beauty†is among the most memorable and most quoted lines in romantic poetry....Show more
Rolanda Merritt: Can I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? by Shakespeare
Miguel Koczela: "Composed Upon Westministers Bridge" by William Wordsworth talks about the beauty of a landscape. Older than that is the Book Songs of Solomon in the Bible. There is lots of poetry that are like love letters talking about the beauty of a woman.
Hans Sachetti: She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless cli! mes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.One shade the more, one ray the less,Had half impaired the nameless graceWhich waves in every raven tress,Or softly lightens o'er her face;Where thoughts serenely sweet expressHow pure, how dear their dwelling place.And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow,But tell of days in goodness spent,A mind at peace with all below,A heart whose love is innocent!--Lord Byron...Show more
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