Love

Reason for Love's Blindness

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)

Love

I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold--
His eyes are in his mind.

What outward form and feature are
He guesseth but in part;
But that within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.

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? 1811

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Reason for Love's Blindness.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/258/.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Reason for Love's Blindness.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/258/.

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