| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Song: ‘She is not fair to outward view’ | | 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, | 5 |
| A well of love, a spring of light! | |
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| 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. | | | | |
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