DEAR Lord, to Thee my knee is bent. -- Give me content -- Full-pleasured with what comes to me, Whate'er it be: An humble roof -- a frugal board, And simple hoard; The wintry fagot piled beside The chimney wide, While the enwreathing flames up-sprout And twine about The brazen dogs that guard my hearth And household worth: Tinge with the embers' ruddy glow The rafters low; And let the sparks snap with delight, As fingers might That mark deft measures of some tune The children croon: Then, with good friends, the rarest few Thou holdest true, Ranged round about the blaze, to share My comfort there, -- Give me to claim the service meet That makes each seat A place of honor, and each guest Loved as the rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIME STREET by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN THE HOMING BIRD by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE by JOHN BYROM THE AUTHOR'S COAT OF ARMS by JOHN BYROM THE CUCKOO by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUARTO by THOMAS CAMPION |