dark lady
Mysterious female figure
A dark lady is a woman of mysterious or shadowy character, often romantically alluring.
The phrase is most associated with Shakespeare's sonnets, where an unnamed dark-haired woman inspires poems of desire and torment.
More broadly, dark lady describes any enigmatic female figure in literature or life: She was his dark lady, fascinating and unknowable.
- femme fataleTreacherous enchantress
- black widowLethal spider species
- fatal attractionHarmful obsessive romantic pull
- shadowLight blocked by object
- CirceMythical witch, island-dweller
kohl · mask · Hecate · moonlight · dusky · Persephone · secrecy · secret lover · Shakespeare · forbidden love · sonnet · love sonnet · Lilith · melancholy · nightfall · Kali · tragic heroine · passion
- Shakespeare's Sonnetsfair youth, quatrains, couplet, iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme
- Romantic PoetryWordsworth, Keats, William Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge
- Shakespeare biographyStratford, Anne Hathaway, Globe Theatre, birthplace, marriage
- sonnetssonnet, Shakespearean sonnets, Petrarchan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, English sonnet
dark ladyfair maiden
Beautiful young woman
Beatrice · fair lady · blonde · Laura · fair youth
dark ladyfair maiden
Beautiful young woman
angel · Madonna figure · virgin · white lady · innocent