Poem Genre / Form: Extract / snippet from longer work / Poem Theme: The happy man / contentment

1. A truce to thought and let us over the fields

First Line:: A truce to thought and let us over the fields
Last Line:: Once more to rest his foot on his own threshold
Author:: James Hurdis (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36983

2. Ah happy rills ah pleasing shade

First Line:: Ah happy rills ah pleasing shade
Last Line:: To breathe a second spring
Author:: Thomas Gray (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37114

3. Ask of the learned the way the learned are blind

First Line:: Ask of the learned the way the learned are blind
Last Line:: Those call it pleasure and contentment these
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28247

4. Can he that flies his country find

First Line:: Can he that flies his country find
Last Line:: More swift than roes or stormy wind
Author:: Thomas Creech (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24404

5. But he the muse's laurel justly shares

First Line:: But he the muse's laurel justly shares
Last Line:: One power of physic melody and song
Author:: John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30725

6. But the base miser starves amidst his store

First Line:: But the base miser starves amidst his store
Last Line:: Sits sadly pining and believes he's poor
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5972

7. But there is a passion whose tempestuous sway

First Line:: But there is a passion whose tempestuous sway
Last Line:: And sudden grief and rage and sudden joy
Author:: John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30722

8. Climb at court for me that will

First Line:: Climb at court for me that will
Last Line:: An old honest country-man
Author:: Andrew Marvell (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33659

9. Content alone can all our wrongs redress

First Line:: Content alone can all our wrongs redress
Last Line:: Content that other name for happiness
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5971

10. Content alone can all their wrongs redress

First Line:: Content alone can all their wrongs redress
Last Line:: Content that other name for happiness
DMI number:: 39367

11. Content is all we aim at with our store

First Line:: Content is all we aim at with our store
Last Line:: And having that with little what needs more
DMI number:: 5513

12. Content is wealth the riches of the mind

First Line:: Content is wealth the riches of the mind
Last Line:: And happy he who can that treasure find
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5560

13. Contented with an old estate

First Line:: Contented with an old estate
Last Line:: Nor wanton luxury made less
Author:: Edmund Waller (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25964

14. Contentment gives a crown

First Line:: Contentment gives a crown
Last Line:: Where fortune hath denied it
Author:: Thomas Forde (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14037

15. Envy not those who in preferment shine

First Line:: Envy not those who in preferment shine
Last Line:: Is not to indulge your self in thoughts of being great
DMI number:: 9541

16. Empty and insignificant are greatness

First Line:: Empty and insignificant are greatness
Last Line:: Sings all the day and sweetly sleeps at night
Author:: Eliza Haywood [nee Fowler] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19939

17. Each good mind doubles his own free content

First Line:: Each good mind doubles his own free content
Last Line:: When in another's use they give it vent
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14036

18. Forgive the gods the rest and stand confined

First Line:: Forgive the gods the rest and stand confined
Last Line:: That all things weighs and nothing can admire
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5952

19. Fortune not much of humbling me can boast

First Line:: Fortune not much of humbling me can boast
Last Line:: Let us be fixed and our own masters still
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28030

20. For I disdain | All pomp when thou art by far be the noise

First Line:: For I disdain | All pomp when thou art by far be the noise
Last Line:: Wing to our downy beds and sleep till morn
Author:: Nathaniel Lee (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18994

21. For where the mind a torpid winter leads

First Line:: For where the mind a torpid winter leads
Last Line:: Unlocks the breast and gives a cordial glow
Author:: John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30723

22. Gods life's your gift then season't with such fate

First Line:: Gods life's your gift then season't with such fate
Last Line:: But make my life what I ask or take't away
Author:: Thomas Otway (Confident)
DMI number:: 5575

23. Hail happy land whose fertile grounds

First Line:: Hail happy land whose fertile grounds
Last Line:: His own hath rightly understood
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29687

24. Greatness most envied when least understood

First Line:: Greatness most envied when least understood
Last Line:: To be more wretched than the vulgar can
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18992

25. Greatness the earnest of malicious fate

First Line:: Greatness the earnest of malicious fate
Last Line:: Till time had quenched both life and love together
Author:: Thomas Southerne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19936

26. Greatness thou gaudy torment of our souls

First Line:: Greatness thou gaudy torment of our souls
Last Line:: The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools
Author:: Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18991

27. Happy the man and happy he alone

First Line:: Happy the man and happy he alone
Last Line:: But what has been has been and I have had my hour
DMI number:: 39887

28. Happy the man that has each fortune tried

First Line:: Happy the man that has each fortune tried
Last Line:: And can regale himself with bread and cheese
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation) & William King (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9429

29. He's a bastard got in a fit of nature

First Line:: He's a bastard got in a fit of nature
Last Line:: Who ventured life to clasp the hasty joy
DMI number:: 14234

30. Happy the man who verses in nature's laws

First Line:: Happy the man who verses in nature's laws
Last Line:: And hear the din of Acheron sedate
Author:: Virgil (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26946

31. Happy the man whom bounteous gods allow

First Line:: Happy the man whom bounteous gods allow
Last Line:: Nor does th'affronts of palaces endure
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5502

32. He that from dust of worldly tumults flies

First Line:: He that from dust of worldly tumults flies
Last Line:: To rest in little is our greatest good
Author:: Sir John Beaumont (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14035

33. He that is valiant and dares fight

First Line:: He that is valiant and dares fight
Last Line:: Is most admired and wondered at
Author:: Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31550

34. He that makes gold his wife but not his whore

First Line:: He that makes gold his wife but not his whore
Last Line:: And dead no crow he is a happy man
Author:: Thomas Dekker (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15000

35. How are we bandied up and down by fate

First Line:: How are we bandied up and down by fate
Last Line:: By so much more unhappy as we're great
Author:: Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18989

36. How man's desire

First Line:: How man's desire
Last Line:: Or of the means that work it
Author:: Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14033

37. How happy a state does the miller possess

First Line:: How happy a state does the miller possess
Last Line:: If so happy a miller pray who'd be a king
Author:: Robert Dodsley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31520

38. How to live happiest how avoid the pains

First Line:: How to live happiest how avoid the pains
Last Line:: And in the original perused mankind
Author:: John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30715

39. In vain we toss and turn our feverish will

First Line:: In vain we toss and turn our feverish will
Last Line:: When all our ease must come by lying still
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8145

40. Is health your care or luxury your aim

First Line:: Is health your care or luxury your aim
Last Line:: To nature nature all compulsion hates
Author:: John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30721

41. Look round our world behold the chain of love

First Line:: Look round our world behold the chain of love
Last Line:: Who thinks all made for one not one for all
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30148

42. Lord who would live turmoiled in the court

First Line:: Lord who would live turmoiled in the court
Last Line:: And send the poor well pleased from my gate
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14029

43. Let woods and rivers be

First Line:: Let woods and rivers be
Last Line:: In life's cool vale let my low scene be laid
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6025

44. Life have I worn out thrice thirty years

First Line:: Life have I worn out thrice thirty years
Last Line:: But gently took all that ungently came
Author:: Edmund Spenser (Confident)
DMI number:: 8146

45. Much will always wanting be

First Line:: Much will always wanting be
Last Line:: With sparing hand enough but just enough has given
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6026

46. I was born with greatness

First Line:: I was born with greatness
Last Line:: They are of chiefest use to fools and knaves
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14983

47. I whose last scene of life has long declined

First Line:: I whose last scene of life has long declined
Last Line:: I seek a learned ease and wise retreat
DMI number:: 9401

48. If ever ambition did my fancy cheat

First Line:: If ever ambition did my fancy cheat
Last Line:: The humble blessings of that life I love
DMI number:: 25236

49. If then to all men happiness was meant

First Line:: If then to all men happiness was meant
Last Line:: But future views of better or of worse
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30156

50. If thou be wise no glorious fortune choose

First Line:: If thou be wise no glorious fortune choose
Last Line:: To kings or to the favourites of kings
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6023

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1. A truce to thought and let us over the fields

2. Ah happy rills ah pleasing shade

3. Ask of the learned the way the learned are blind

4. Can he that flies his country find

5. But he the muse's laurel justly shares

6. But the base miser starves amidst his store

7. But there is a passion whose tempestuous sway

8. Climb at court for me that will

9. Content alone can all our wrongs redress

10. Content alone can all their wrongs redress

11. Content is all we aim at with our store

12. Content is wealth the riches of the mind

13. Contented with an old estate

14. Contentment gives a crown

15. Envy not those who in preferment shine

16. Empty and insignificant are greatness

17. Each good mind doubles his own free content

18. Forgive the gods the rest and stand confined

19. Fortune not much of humbling me can boast

20. For I disdain | All pomp when thou art by far be the noise

21. For where the mind a torpid winter leads

22. Gods life's your gift then season't with such fate

23. Hail happy land whose fertile grounds

24. Greatness most envied when least understood

25. Greatness the earnest of malicious fate

26. Greatness thou gaudy torment of our souls

27. Happy the man and happy he alone

28. Happy the man that has each fortune tried

29. He's a bastard got in a fit of nature

30. Happy the man who verses in nature's laws

31. Happy the man whom bounteous gods allow

32. He that from dust of worldly tumults flies

33. He that is valiant and dares fight

34. He that makes gold his wife but not his whore

35. How are we bandied up and down by fate

36. How man's desire

37. How happy a state does the miller possess

38. How to live happiest how avoid the pains

39. In vain we toss and turn our feverish will

40. Is health your care or luxury your aim

41. Look round our world behold the chain of love

42. Lord who would live turmoiled in the court

43. Let woods and rivers be

44. Life have I worn out thrice thirty years

45. Much will always wanting be

46. I was born with greatness

47. I whose last scene of life has long declined

48. If ever ambition did my fancy cheat

49. If then to all men happiness was meant

50. If thou be wise no glorious fortune choose