Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent,-- The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride or care, The mean, that 'grees with country music best, The sweet consort of mirth's and music's fare. Obscured life sets down a type of bliss; A mind content both crown and kingdom is. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RING AND THE CASTLE by AMY LOWELL SOULS LAKE by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD WHEN I'M KILLED by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES OF TREASON by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS SONGS OF TRAVEL: 2. YOUTH AND LOVE: 1 by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DEJECTION by GRACE E. ALBRIGHT THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A FANCY by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON A VERSION OF THE OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |