Love

She is not fair to outward view

by Hartley Coleridge 1796–1849

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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