Song by Hartley Coleridge. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Song

Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)


SHE is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be,
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smil’d on me;
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,	5
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:	10
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.