NOT AT HOME

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That Jealousy may rule a mind

Where Love could never be

I know; but ne'er expect to find

Love without Jealousy.

She has a strange cast in her ee,

A swart sour-visaged maid —

But yet Love's own twin-sister she

His house-mate and his shade.

Ask for her and she'll be denied:—

What then? they only mean

Their mistress has lain down to sleep,

And can n't just then be seen.