The Mind

Fragment: O beauty in a beauteous body dight

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

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

The Mind

O beauty in a beauteous body dight!
Body that veiling brightness, beamest bright;
Fair cloud which less we see, than by thee see the light.

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1805

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: O beauty in a beauteous body dight.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/447/.

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