Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Ode to Tranquility", st. 4 (1801)
“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
Part II, line 37
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
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