Song

By Hartley Coleridge

1796-1849


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.

DayPoems Poem No. 596
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