Sometimes you might love someone who frowns more than smiles...... For the youngsters out there, "fair" in this poem refers to beauty. "She is not fair to outward view" = she's not beautiful in appearance.
She is not fair to outward view
- 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 never reply;
- And yet I cease not to behold,
- The love-light in her eye:
- Her very frowns are better far
- Than smiles of other maidens are!
- Hartley Coleridge
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