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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She is not fair to outward view
Last Line: Than smiles of other maidens are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Admiration
First Line: She is not fair to outward view
Last Line: Than smiles of other maidens are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Admiration
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!
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