The Vampire Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron & Leslie Ormandy
Kim Sander's Modern Vampire Poem
For a bit of fun, and in honor of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I decided to grab a spot on my own modern poetry section and share my take on Lord Byron’s sonnet, “She Walks in Beauty, like the Night.”She is the beauty of the night
Basking in the moonlit skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Darken to predatory light
Which Heaven in daylight hours denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less
Would less enhance her nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
That softly press against her face,
Which thoughts of hunger doth express
With hope of entering my dwelling place.
Moon shines on her cheek, and shines on her brow
So soft, so enticing, so eloquent,
With smiles that win, and teeth and glow
That mutter of days in shadows spent
She entreats for entrance and once let in
She drinks the blood of the innocent.
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