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.

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The Loveliness of Love, attributed to Anonymous in Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury (Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1861), no. 86, p. 88. Elsewhere attributed to George Darley. Attributed to Carew in S. Austin Allibone, ed., Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1891), p. 62

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