by Coleridge · Cluster: Appearance vs Reality · Beauty · Eyes and Sight
Abstract
A short song prizing not the lady’s lily brow or roseate cheeks but the gentle look that only Love can see. Themes: romantic love, inward beauty over outward, the eye/look.
Connections
Motifs: Rose, Eyes and Sight, Flowers Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Beauty Forms & Genres: Comic Verse Song
Testo integrale / Full text
AUGUST 1829
‘Tis not the lily-brow I prize,
Nor roseate cheeks, nor sunny eyes,
Enough of lilies and of roses!
A thousand-fold more dear to me
The gentle look that Love discloses, — 5
The look that Love alone can see!
Keepsake, 1830.