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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM THOMPSON
First Line: A book, a friend, a song, a glass
Last Line: And a chaste, laughter-loving lass.
Subject(s): Life; Pleasure
First Line: A book, a friend, a song, a glass
Last Line: And a chaste, laughter-loving lass.
Subject(s): Life; Pleasure
A book, a friend, a song, a glass,
A chaste, yet laughter-loving lass,
To mortals various joys impart,
Inform the sense, and warm the heart.
Thrice happy they, who careless laid
Beneath a kind-embowering shade,
With rosy wreaths their temples crown,
In rosy wine their sorrow drown.
Begone, ambition, riches, toys,
And splendid cares, and guilty joys—
Give me a book, a friend, a glass,
And a chaste, laughter-loving lass.
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