Who wrote the poem "She Walks in Beauty"?

Lord Byron wrote the poem “She Walks in Beauty.”

The poem is one of Byron’s best-known short lyrics, written in 1814 and published the following year in Hebrew Melodies, a collection issued by the London publisher John Murray. Its regular iambic tetrameter gives the poem a graceful, songlike movement that matches its meditation on beauty, balance, and quiet emotional purity.

The poem is traditionally connected with an evening gathering Byron attended in London on 11 June 1814. He reportedly noticed the striking appearance of Anne Beatrix Wilmot, the wife of his first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot. The poem was said to have been written the next morning, although the biographical story should be treated as a tradition rather than a fully documented creative record.

Readers sometimes associate the poem with Wordsworth, Keats, or Shelley because all three were major English Romantic poets. Byron, however, is the author, and the poem’s compact lyric form differs from the longer narrative and meditative works for which some of his contemporaries are better known.