Nature
Song, ex improviso
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Nature
'Tis not the lily-brow I prize,
Nor roseate cheeks, nor sunny eyes,
Enough of lilies and of roses!
A thousand-fold more dear to me
The gentle look that Love discloses,--
The look that Love alone can see!
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Codex Note
On Hearing a Song in Praise of a Lady's Beauty. Keepsake, 1830
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