The mind, the music breathing from her face,

The heart whose softness harmonized the whole—

And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul!

The Bride of Abydos, Canto 1.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,

And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 1.

She was a form of life and light,

That, seen, became a part of sight;

And rose wher'er I turned mine eye,