“Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.”
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Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
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“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”
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Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow