"She died in beauty." Charles Doyne Sillery (1807-1837). V. Death and Bereavement. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. III. Sorrow and Consolation

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

“She died in beauty”

Charles Doyne Sillery (1807–1837)


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	5
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;	10
She died in beauty,—like a star
Lost on the brow of day.

She lives in glory,—like night’s gems
Set round the silver moon;
She lives in glory,—like the sun	15
Amid the blue of June.