Then he took his seat in the house of lords that same year, and then departed on a grand tour through most of Europe, there he began "Chilled Harold's Pilgrimage." "Byron returned to London in July 1811, but too late to see his mother, before she died"(The Penguin Group, 2). "After having returned from exotic travels, he became a figure of force and he followed his success with a series of "Eastern" tales that added to his aura: one of them, The Corsair 1814, written in ten days, sold ten thousand copies on the day of publication"(The Penguin Group, 2). Hebrew Melodies 1815, contains one of Byron's most famous lyrics, which is " She Walks in Beauty". After having a relationship with his half-sister Augusta, and presuming that her daughter Medora was his, Byron proposed to Annabella Milbanke. "They married in January 1815; their daughter Augusta Ada was born at the end of the year, but a few weeks latter Annabella left Byron to live with her parents, amid rumors of insanity, incest, and sodomy"(The Penguin Group, 3). "In 1819 the first two cantos of Don Juan were published in an expensive edition meant to forestall charges of blasphemy and bearing neither the authors nor the publisher's name" (The Penguin Group, 3). In April 1819, Byron met his last attachment Teresa Gamba Guiccioli who was married to a man three times her age. When Teresa's father and brother were exiled, she followed them. Byron, then went with her to Pisa. "A serious illness in February 1824, weakened Byron; in April he contracted a fever, treated by further bleeding, from which he died on April 19 at the age of thirty-six"(The Penguin Group, 4). She Walks In Beauty 1 She walks in beauty , like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light 5 Which heaven to gaudy day denies. 2 One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o"er her face; 10 Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
