“It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.”

— George Darley

Poem The Loveliness of Love http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ridge/local/iinbid.html

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Irish poet, novelist, and critic 1795–1846

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