A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.

These lines present an idealized, almost supernatural image of feminine beauty: the woman is “garmented in light,” as if her radiance is not borrowed from the world but generated by her own being. Shelley often uses light as a Romantic emblem for purity, inspiration, and the mind’s visionary power; here, the metaphor suggests beauty as self-sufficient and self-illuminating, turning the beloved into a figure of aesthetic and spiritual revelation. The phrasing also implies that what clothes her is not fabric but an aura—beauty as an atmosphere that both conceals and discloses, inviting contemplation rather than possession.