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She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.

— Hartley Coleridge Poems (1851)

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The soul of man is larger than the sky,
Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed center.

Poems (1851)

Rising now, anon descending,
Swift and bright as shooting stars,
Thus we travel glad and free.

Poems (1851)

He grew, and grew,
A star-bright sign of fated empery;
And all conspiring omens led him on
To lofty purpose and pre-eminence.

Poems (1851)

Jove is not one half so merciless
As thou art to thyself. But fare thee well;
Our love is all as stubborn as thy pride,
And swift as firm.

Poems (1851)

The glad sons of the deliver'd earth
Shall yearly raise their multitudinous voice,
Hymning great Jove, the God of Liberty!

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Whose veil is unremoved
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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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