My Golden Treasury - Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom

I sure love Lord Byron a lot :). Well, his romance always seems to have a purity to it, a rare purity and love that can make the stoniest philosopher go soft. At least, that is what I feel whenever I read, and re-read, Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's Bloom. The blend between the solemness of death, the grief, and the innate emotions of human life in this poem is amazing for me. The perspective provided by nature, and the disdain for the philosopher, make the poem a truly moving one.
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My Golden Treasury - She Walks in Beauty

This, I should confess, is my The Poem - the one that gave me my favorite English poet. That true romantic, Lord Byron, has captured the spirit of romance and beauty as inseparably and touchingly as I could have dreamed for in this masterpiece. Full Text.
Incidentally, this was adopted for a musical, Phantom of the Opera, long time back - Youtube link.
And oh, I had even translated this to my mother-tongue, Kannada!!

My golden treasury - The Bridge of Sighs

After a long time I re-read one of my favorite poems: The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood. Its smooth flow, the genuine feelings of beauty and sadness touch me like few other poems do. Ironically, this is the one poem whose translation is, at least for me, much more beautiful than the original: The famous Kannada translation DhukhaSetu (ದುಃಖ ಸೇತು - ಬಿ.ಎ೦.ಶ್ರೀ, ಇ೦ಗ್ಲಿಷ ಗೀತಗಳು). If you can read Kannada, do read that once - you will love poetry forever.