Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/A Lady’s Beauty

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see A Picture.

CHAPTER VI.

THE FÊTE AT SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S
CONTINUED.

Ladye, thy white brow is fair,
Beauty's morning light is there;
And thine eye is like a star,
Dark as those of midnight are:
Round thee satin robe is flung;
Pearls upon thy neck are hung:
Yet thou wearest silk and gem,
As thou hadst forgotten them.
Lovelier is the ray that lies
On thy lip, and in thine eyes.

Blanchard’s title is:

A LADY’S BEAUTY

Adapted from Portrait of a Lady, by Sir Thomas Lawrence in The Troubadour

In The New Yorker (24th March 1838), as A Picture