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...PEACE (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY by KAREN SWENSON ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SONNET: 146 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DEATH AND THE MONK by ARTHUR E. BAKER A LEAVE-TAKING: 2 by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ROOT AND LEAF by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |