A Mind Content
Robert Greene (1560-92) * Track #16 On Songs of Ourselves
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Album Songs of Ourselves
- #1Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
- #2One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
- #3Song: Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- #4My Parents
Stephen Spender
- #5For Heidi With Blue Hair
Fleur Adcock
- #6Praise Song for My Mother
Grace Nichols
- #7Elegy for My Father’s Father
James K. Baxter
- #8The Trees Are Down
Charlotte Mew
- #9Attack
Siegfried Sassoon
- #10Reservist
Boey Kim Cheng
- #11Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
- #12Friend
Hone Tuwhare
- #13Horses
Edwin Muir
- #14The Planners
Boey Kim Cheng
- #15A Mind Content
Robert Greene (1560-92)
A Mind Content by Robert Greene (1560-92)
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Robert Greene (1560-92)About
Greene lived from 1560 to 1592, during the reign of Queen Eliizabeth 1. It was a turbulent time — major religious changes and prosperity mixed with the most terrible poverty. From this poem we can assume that he enjoyed the present and clearly believed in carpe diem; sieze the day.
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A Mind Content Annotated
Sweet are the thoughts that savour 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 harbours quiet rest;
The cottage that affords no pride nor care;
The mean that ‘grees with country music best;
The sweet consort of mirth and music’s fare;
Obscuréd life sets down a type of bliss:
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.