Love
She is not fair to outward view
From The Golden Treasury, ed. F. T. Palgrave (1861)
Love
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me.
O then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.
But now her looks are coy and cold,
To mine they ne'er reply,
And yet I cease not to behold
The love-light in her eye:
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
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Coleridge, Hartley. “She is not fair to outward view.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_h/0/.
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Coleridge, Hartley. “She is not fair to outward view.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_h/0/.
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