“She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.”

—  Hartley Coleridge

"Song. She is not fair"
Poems (1851)

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British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796–1849

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