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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CONTENTMENT Matches Found: 172 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF AIRS SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of life upright Last Line: And quiet pilgrimage. Variant Title(s): The Armour Of Innocence;integer Vitae;justvm Et Tenacem;dovine And Moral Songs: 2 Subject(s): Contentment; Courage; Honor; Masculinity (psychology); Valor; Bravery A CONTENTED MIND, by JOSHUA SYLVESTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weigh not fortune's frown or smile Last Line: A mind content, a conscience clear. Variant Title(s): Contentment Subject(s): Contentment A DIALOGUE ON CONTENTMENT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ills, dear phebe, would it not prevent Last Line: Are well bestow'd on such a charming flow'r. Subject(s): Contentment A FAREWELL TO FOLLY: CONTENT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content Last Line: A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Variant Title(s): A Mind Content;maesia's Song;a Contented Mind;song Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Life; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers A HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How charming! To be thus confin'd Last Line: "he is the patience of my heart, / the comfort, and content" Subject(s): Contentment;hymns (as Literary Form) A HYMN, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, within thy fold I be Last Line: And I'm content. Subject(s): Contentment A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely, lasting peace of mind! Last Line: Or own the next begun in this. Subject(s): Contentment A SETTING, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing orphic, nothing foreign Last Line: Became the best of you Subject(s): Summer; Suburbs; Contentment AH! PITY THE SORROWS OF A POOR POET, WHEN UNABLE TO PAY HIS RENT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And help him to pay it, and he will feel content Subject(s): Contentment; Poetry And Poets ALSACE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are two skies but one hawk only Last Line: Mother sang to her hat same color as the car Subject(s): Sleep; Contentment BE CONTENTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the fish that gets away, my boy" Last Line: And fame will find you yet Subject(s): Contentment;fish & Fishing BIRD AND CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lord, if that cloud still grows and swells Last Line: And his mind has no complaint? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment; Seasons; Summer; Sun CANTICLE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the sky is pure Last Line: And sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Contentment CANTICLE, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Devoutly worshipping the oak Last Line: And hurries from the hill. Subject(s): Contentment; Prayer; Summer CARELESS CONTENT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am content, I do not care, / wag as it will the world for me Last Line: I am content, I do not care. Subject(s): Contentment CHEERFUL CONTENT, by ANGELINA S. MUMFORD Poem Text First Line: I know no loneliness of heart, - no shadowy ideal Last Line: And often think the cup of life for me is full to brimming. Alternate Author Name(s): Picciola Subject(s): Contentment CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think we are too ready with complaint Last Line: Because the way is short, I thank thee, god.' Subject(s): Contentment CHRISTIAN ETHICS: CONTENTMENT, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentment is a sleepy thing Last Line: Stretch'd out to all things, and with all content! Subject(s): Contentment CLEON AND I, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cleon hath a million acres, ne'er a one have I Last Line: State for state with all attendants, who would change? Not I. Subject(s): Contentment; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 3. OF CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chauntlet, I muse what solitary vaine Last Line: Nec sua, nec se, mens insatiata tenet. Subject(s): Contentment COMFORT IN THE NIGHT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought by heaven's high wall that she did stray Last Line: Then the gate closed and she awoke content. Subject(s): Comfort; Contentment; Kisses; Light; Night; Bedtime COMPENSATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She folded up the worn and mended frock Last Line: "and whatsoever is, dear lord, is right" Subject(s): Contentment;mothers CONTENT, by ROBERT DEVEREUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy were he could finish forth his fate Last Line: Where harmless robin dwells with gentle thrush. Alternate Author Name(s): Essex, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): A Wish;a Passion Of My Lord Of Essex;a Passion;happy Were He Subject(s): Contentment CONTENT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though singing but the shy and sweet Last Line: Be yours all other bliss! Subject(s): Contentment; Singing & Singers; Songs CONTENT, by J. N. GREELY Poem Text First Line: The night comes, let it come Last Line: And a pipe, in the firelight's glow. Subject(s): Aging; Contentment; Yale University CONTENT, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Content, content! Within a quiet room Last Line: We find; content, content! Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Subject(s): Contentment CONTENT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wouldst thou be Subject(s): Contentment CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should be content Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should be content Last Line: And not as a comment %on my life Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains CONTENT, by PEARL H. LUEBKE Poem Text First Line: Winter's heart is drowsy Last Line: With content, content. Subject(s): Contentment; Dreams; Nightmares CONTENT (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Be content with thy lot Subject(s): Contentment CONTENT (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My heart and I but lately were at strife Last Line: My heart and I have 'heart's-ease' -- and content Subject(s): Contentment CONTENT: A SONG, by JANE (HUGHES) BRERETON Poem Text First Line: Lovely, lasting peace of mind Last Line: We here enjoy a heaven in thee. Subject(s): Contentment CONTENT; WRITTEN OFF ITHACA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not find the little maid content Last Line: "and, though I called, you neither saw nor heard." Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTATION; DIRECTED TO IZAAK WALTON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n what an age is this! What race Last Line: And thinks him happy where he is. Subject(s): Contentment; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) CONTENTED MIND, by JANE (HUGHES) BRERETON Poem Text First Line: Give me, o god! (for all things come from thee) Last Line: "to look for't where it is, in a contented mind." Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a virtue, as the sages say Last Line: And there is fair play between weak and strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by EDWARD DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mind [or, minde] to me a kingdom is Last Line: Would all did so as well as I! Variant Title(s): Kingdom;in Praise Of A Contented Mind Subject(s): Contentment; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking CONTENTMENT, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time an old red hen Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by FLORA M. KENISTON Poem Text First Line: People who live where the sound of the ocean Last Line: Are sweetest of music which lulls me to sleep. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Nature CONTENTMENT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Contentment isn't often seen where men Last Line: Buy a glad, contented heart. Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by IRMA RICE MAYER Poem Text First Line: As upon my couch I lie Last Line: Our souls are merged . . . The spark divine. Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that holds fast the golden mean Last Line: "embittering all his state." Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): Moderation Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fragile, provisional, it comes unbidden Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou the steed that restless roves Last Line: Of treasure in the skies? Subject(s): Contentment; Simplicity CONTENTMENT, by WILLA CALVERT SMITH Poem Text First Line: Not in some distant part Last Line: Or peace may reign. Subject(s): Contentment; Peace CONTENTMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended Last Line: Is all I ask. Subject(s): Contentment; Evening; Life; Love; Pity; Sunset; Twilight CONTENTMENT, AFTER THE MANNER OF HORACE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, there be they on whom mishap Last Line: Their carpet-bag. Subject(s): Contentment CONTENTMENT, OR, THE HAPPY WORKMAN'S SONG, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a poor workman as rich as a jew Last Line: Which nobody &c. Subject(s): Contentment; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CONTENTMENT; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou precious treasure of the peaceful mind Last Line: Though sometimes pleas'd, say, he's a contented man. Subject(s): Contentment CORIDON'S SONG (IN ISAAK WALTON'S 'COMPLEAT ANGLER'), by JOHN CHALKHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sweet contentment Last Line: Turn countryman with me. Variant Title(s): The Praise Of A Countryman's Life Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life DAY IS DONE, by CHARLES V. CALDWELL Poem Text First Line: The day is done; the twilight shadows fall Last Line: And watch its shadows fall, content, as I do now. Subject(s): Contentment DEVOTION, by BERTA G. MCGUIRK Poem Text First Line: When all your days are bright and fair Last Line: Against each hurt till all is past. Subject(s): Contentment DIFFICULT TO DEFINE, by LORETTA POWER WILSON Poem Text First Line: I like to see the sky at dawn Last Line: I guess it's -- just because. Alternate Author Name(s): Hartley, Loretta P. W. Subject(s): Contentment E CATALECTIS VETERUM POETARUM, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small well-gotten stock and country seat Last Line: Live master of the time that I'm allow'd. Subject(s): Contentment EASY SONG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's rained every day since you Last Line: In the perfume of your flesh. %moi aussi, je suis content Subject(s): Contentment; French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships EVENTIDE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of the brooding night Last Line: That I may falter to thy arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Contentment; God FIRESIDE, by JAMES BINNEY Poem Text First Line: A fire is such a thing as might be known Last Line: Content with warmth and safety from the years. Subject(s): Contentment; Fireplaces; Heat FORTUNATE BEING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Singing you go, and laughing through the water Last Line: Through the water singing and laughing Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every dame affects good fame, whate'er her doings be Last Line: Happy dame, content that lives and breaks no sleep for toys! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Contentment FRIAR'S SONG, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some love the matin-chimes, which tell Last Line: They may not change our liquor! Subject(s): Contentment GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What madness so stirs the heart of man Last Line: O hours worthy to be numbered in herbs and flowers Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens And Gardening; Retirement; Solitude GIVE ME A SINGING HEART, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Give me a singing heart to free my life Last Line: Through inert shadows and through futile days. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets GOLDEN MOMENT, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Arriving early for a dentist's appointment one morning Last Line: I realize I have just experienced a golden moment of epiphany Subject(s): Contentment; Department Stores; Music And Musicians GRONGAR HILL, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent nymph, with curious eye! Last Line: Within the groves of grongar hill. Subject(s): Contentment; Grongar Hill, Wales; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen HALCYON WEATHER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the halcyon weather Last Line: Under the open sky! Subject(s): Contentment; Weather HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy-go-lucky, you darling, and is it Last Line: Which mary has nurtured for jesus, and one day will give him to wear. Subject(s): Contentment; Music & Musicians HERMIT AND THE KING, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN Poem Source First Line: Marbhan, o hermit Subject(s): Contentment HIS GRANGE, OR PRIVATE WEALTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though clock, / to tell how night drawes hence, I've none Last Line: None is, slight things do lightly please. Subject(s): Animals; Contentment HOLLOA! THE GOOD SHIP OF DELIGHT SPREADS HER SAILS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who embarks? Who embarks, I say? Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Contentment HUXTER, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has a hump like an ape on his back Last Line: This fine may morning Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Contentment; Peddlers And Peddling; Wealth HYMN TO CONTENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! The nymph with placid eye Last Line: Low whispering in the shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Nymphs; Adam & Eve; Contentment; Eve I PRAY TO VENUS, by ELIZABETH OF YORK Poem Text First Line: My heart is set upon a lusty pin Last Line: This joy and I, I trust, shall never twin. Subject(s): Contentment; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women I UNCOIL MYSELF AND LIE STRAIGHT OUT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To enjoy this body and mind Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Contentment IMITATION OF MARTIAL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length my friend (while time, with still career) Last Line: The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy. Subject(s): Contentment IN CALM CONTENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little smoke lazed slowly up from my big cigar Last Line: And back I leant in calm content that things are as they are Subject(s): Contentment;labor & Laborers;memory;time IN PEACE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A track of moonlight on a quiet lake Last Line: With pencil dipped alone in colors of the heart. Subject(s): Contentment IN THE KING'S BANQUETING HOUSE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on my way with the others, I toil at my daily / task Last Line: He calls me in to the banquet, and what can I do but obey? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Contentment; Love INVITATION, by WILLIAM RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Fair lady! Leave parade and show! Last Line: "will yield thee pastime and repose." Subject(s): Contentment JENNIE, by JOSEPHINE POLLITT Poem Text First Line: Pinch of thirsty garden Last Line: At peace. Subject(s): Contentment JOLLY JACK, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fierce political debate Last Line: Would copy jolly jack. Subject(s): Contentment LAKE WABAN, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: Lake of grey at dawning day Last Line: Peaceful, happy dreaming. Subject(s): Contentment; Lakes; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Pools; Ponds LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN: 63. WITHOUT RECRIMINATION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is wonderful to die amidst the pleasures I have known Last Line: I did not fail my life Subject(s): Contentment LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And remote, and useful, / if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And remote, and useful, %if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Last Line: Such abundance. We are gorged, engorging, and gorgeous Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LINES, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are waiting, some can't wait Subject(s): Despair; Contentment; Life LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has the earth lost its so spacious round Last Line: Together pant in everlasting life! Subject(s): Contentment; Family Life; Relatives LINES TO CONTENTMENT, by GEORGE D. CRAIG Poem Text First Line: Come, walk with me, contentment, through the night Last Line: The leading role in heaven's eternal day. Subject(s): Contentment LOTS TO BE LIKED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learn this of me, where e'er thy lot doth fall Last Line: Short lot, or not, to be content with all. Subject(s): Contentment LOVE AND MUSIC, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sweet, whilst every strain Last Line: Scorning the forgetful lake. Subject(s): Contentment; Desire; Love LYING IN BED ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant are the green and Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Contentment; Immortality MASQUE OF ALFRED: SONG. CONTENTMENT, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If those who live in shepherd's bower Last Line: Yet love adorns the merry round. Subject(s): Contentment MILD BEAUTY, by NORMAN RUDOLPH FREUND Poem Text First Line: Aren't you quite beautiful Last Line: "this is the life,"" they're saying." Subject(s): Beauty; Contentment MULTATULI REMOULDED, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once lived a man who from a rock broke stone Last Line: "contents me with my sitting-pad and hammer!" Subject(s): Wishes; Contentment MY CONFESSION, by ANNA MANLEY GALT Poem Text First Line: Some people want their sunsets Last Line: I'm glad my hair is gray! Subject(s): Contentment; Simplicity MY LITTLE GARDEN, by GWENDOLEN ALLEN Poem Text First Line: I love my little garden Last Line: And seeing god's handiwork all around, I no longer feel afraid. Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening MY LITTLE HOUSE, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is little, but warm enough Last Line: And sing, and keep house together. Subject(s): Contentment; Houses MY RICHES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no comfort in the world Last Line: A good and pleasant thing to me. Subject(s): Contentment MY WISH, by WARREN PEASE Poem Text First Line: Unto the world's great diadem Last Line: I'd rest content. Subject(s): Contentment; Wishes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOT SOUR GRAPES, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not sorry I am older, love - are you? Last Line: Life was such a serious business at the start! Subject(s): Aging; Contentment O, THE PLEASANT DAYS OF OLD!, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the pleasant days of old, which so often people praise! Last Line: Blessed times of old! Subject(s): Contentment; Great Britain - History; English History ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, whose wish and care Last Line: Tell where I lie. Variant Title(s): The Contented Man;the Quiet Life;ode To Solitude Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FIRST PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy he, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON SOLITUDE (MANUSCRIPT VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODES: BOOK 1. ODE 1. PREFACE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder verdant hillock laid Last Line: To pleasure and to health. Subject(s): Contentment; Landscape OF A CONTENTED MIND [OR, SPIRIT], by THOMAS VAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find Last Line: The sweetest time of all my life to deem in thinking spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of Variant Title(s): The Pleasures Of Thinking;content Subject(s): Contentment; Religion; Thought; Theology; Thinking OF CONTENT, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who thinkis that he has sufficience Subject(s): Contentment OH, SWEET CONTENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet content, that turns the labourer's sweat Last Line: Twitch with the stars that shine in thousands there. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind Last Line: Have learned to be content. Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology ONCE ON A TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, no matter when Last Line: Alone in being great. Subject(s): Contentment; Poetry & Poets; Success PARTHENOPHE: SONNET 66, by BARNABE BARNES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, sweet content, where is thy mild abode? Subject(s): Contentment PASSOVER HAMBURGERS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The hamgurgers Last Line: Bitter herbs Subject(s): Contentment; Family Life; Fathers; Food And Eating; Love; Passover PEACE; A STUDY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood, a worn-out city clerk Last Line: Forth from his breast, and read it through. Subject(s): Contentment PENELOPE'S WEB: BARMENISSA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stately state that wise men count their good Last Line: With patience lows thee quiet and delight. Variant Title(s): Content Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; Happiness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight PLEDGES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the softness of the embracing sky Last Line: The last night's petulance unpacified! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Contentment RECOMPENSE, by DOROTHY MOORE ALFORD Poem Text First Line: The toils and pains of an honest day Last Line: Is the love of god and man -- all told. Subject(s): Contentment; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers RIVERS AND WINDS AMONG THE TWISTED HILLS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Life facing, death pursuing it Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Contentment; Mortality RURAL CONTENT, by ANDREW SCOTT Poem Source First Line: I'm now a gude farmer, I've acres o' land Subject(s): Contentment SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Interminable roads I tread Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Home; Contentment; Love – Marital; Poetry & Poets SONG OF A QUIET LIFE, by MARION KILROY Poem Text First Line: If I can find a loveliness Last Line: With simple things like these? Subject(s): Contentment SONNET: 29, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What riches have you that you deem me poor Last Line: I walk contented to the peopled grave. Subject(s): Contentment STANZAS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are, because we can be Last Line: This very day of may. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Contentment STRAY ANIMALS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the beauty of being alone Last Line: This is where I am unborn. Subject(s): Contentment SUMMER FLOWERS, by WHITTIER W. WELLMAN Poem Text First Line: I have loved others better Last Line: I am content. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUNLIGHT ON THE GARDEN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And grateful too %for sunlight on the garden Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Contentment; Erotic Love; Love; Mortality; Transience SWEET STAY-AT-HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stay-at-home, sweet, well content Last Line: Not for the knowledge in thy mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment; Travel; Journeys; Trips TELL ME NOW, by WANG CHI Poem Text First Line: Tell me now, what should a man want Last Line: And, at the end, need no paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Contentment; Old Age THE BECKONING HILLS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On a motto that hangs by my desk I can read Last Line: The peace that my nature would find. Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE BETTER LAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear thee speak of the better land Last Line: "it is there, it is there, my child!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Contentment THE CHOICE, by JOHN POMFRET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven the grateful liberty would give Last Line: All men would wish to live and die like me Subject(s): Contentment; Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vainly men themselves amaze Last Line: Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers? Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening; Retirement; Solitude; Loneliness THE GLAD DAY, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such cloudy mornings full of mist Last Line: Else, the greying heaven strokes the earth Subject(s): Contentment; Nature THE HAPPY LIFE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Martial [or, my friend], the things that do attain Last Line: Ne wish for death, ne fear his might. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): The Means To Attain Happy Life;the Things That Cause A Quiet Life;martial's Quiet Life Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature THE HAPPY MAN, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful is he, and most secure Last Line: And with an easy sign give up his breath. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Dead, The THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LOVE OF THE GAME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is too much of sighing, and weaving Last Line: Our joy in the love of the game. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Contentment THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 45, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the noh theater Last Line: Will ever happen to me Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Contentment THE MERRY HEART, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not from the wise require Last Line: With merry heart, that laughs at care. Subject(s): Contentment THE MORE MODEST THE DEFINITION OF HEAVEN, THE OFTENER WE'RE THERE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years later they let him go. New evidence Subject(s): Contentment THE OLD MAN WHO LIVED IN A WOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was an old man who lived in a wood Last Line: She should ne'er be ruled by he Subject(s): Contentment THE PEACOCK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's riches to him Last Line: For the pride of his eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Peacock Subject(s): Pride; Contentment THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 217, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I close my overgrown door in vain Last Line: The ancient graves are plowed into fields Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Contentment; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 245, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The homeless people I know Last Line: They wander forever content Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Contentment; Homeless; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 265, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hermits hide from society Last Line: Aren't stained by the muddy world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Happiness; Hermits; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 284, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live in the countryside Last Line: It's hard as any diamond Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Poverty THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 297, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain is a leakproof cliff Last Line: I'm content to laugh and sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE RETIREMENT; TO MR. IZAAK WALTON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell thou busy world, and may Last Line: Contented live, and then contented die. Variant Title(s): In The Quiet Of Nature Subject(s): Contentment; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) THE RICHEST PRINCE, by ANDREAS KERNER Poem Text First Line: All their wealth and vast possessions Last Line: "thou art wealthier far than we!" Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ROOM OF THE HOUSEHOLD, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a room I love dearly - the sanctum of bliss Last Line: With a tinge on my cheek and content in my breast. Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Rooms THE SEEKING OF THE CONTENT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet content, at the rich man's gate Last Line: "than thee for his bride, content?" Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Contentment THE SHEPHERD'S CONTENT, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kindes of common countrey life Last Line: And never wake till marble-stones shall weepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Contentment THE SHREWMOUSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The creatures with the shining eyes Last Line: God smiled when she was born. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Contentment; God; Happiness; Innocence; Mice; Joy; Delight THE THIRD BODY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long Last Line: Someone we know of, whom we have never seen Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Contentment THE THRESHING MACHINE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The green, fresh jackets of eared corn Last Line: "machine!" Subject(s): Contentment; Threshing Machines THE WANTS OF MAN, by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man wants but little here below Last Line: The mercy of my god. Subject(s): Contentment; Labor & Laborers; Simplicity; Work; Workers THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall never lament for the man Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory; Contentment; Future THE WISH, by JAMES MERRICK Poem Text First Line: How short is life's uncertain space Last Line: "and yet above contempt!" Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Mediocrity THE WISH; WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF POPE'S 'ODE ON SOLITUDE', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "grant me, ye powers, some blest retreat" Last Line: Bring sylvia there! Subject(s): Contentment;country Life;solitude; Loneliness THESE DAYS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Days when it's easy, the water Subject(s): Contentment TINKERIN' AT HOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks there be who seem to need excitement Last Line: If he'll kindly let me tinker 'round the home we've got up there. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Contentment; Home TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO MRS. MARISSAL, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, whither, wearied dove Last Line: Drink at pleasure's native spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Contentment TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, I do not know you, and I think Last Line: I only write to exorcise a ghost. Subject(s): Boredom; Contentment; Ennui TREASURE WHAT YOU FIND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Already in your pocket, friend Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Contentment; Nature TRULY GREAT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My walls outside must have some flowers Last Line: Show me a man more great. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment WANTING SUMPTUOUS HEAVENS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: No one grumbles among the oyster clans Subject(s): Contentment WE ALL LAUGH, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: Some with the strange, sheer joy of it all Last Line: I laugh to hide despair. Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter; Pleasure; Smiles; Joy; Delight WELCOME WHAT COMES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatver comes, let's be content withall Last Line: Among gods blessings, there is no one small. Subject(s): Contentment WHEN IN SOME COVE I LIE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seaward with it Subject(s): Peace; Contentment WITHOUT RECRIMINATION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is wonderful to die amidst the pleasures I have known Last Line: With myself. 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