Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907) British writer
Self-Question, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.”
Song (1894).
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