 | John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 pages
...times, were most scrupulously observant of the laws of hospitality. LESSON EIGHTEENTH. CONTENTMENT. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God or nature has assigned — Though much I want that most... | |
 | Philobiblion - 1862 - 552 pages
...Dyer, Edward Earl of Oxford, and their contemporaries, feveral of .which have never been publiihed : My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly blifs, That God or Nature hath affign'd. Though much I want that moft would... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...see. "MY MIND TO ME." [From BYRD'S songs, &c. about the year 1588. Little is known ot this writer.] MY mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein...it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assign'd: Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...see. "MY MIND TO ME." [From BYRD'S songs, &c. about the year 1588. Little is known ot this writer.] MY mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein...it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assign'd : Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 550 pages
...this work we do. No boy or girl will be ungrateful, on whose lips we help to put the good old song : " My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excells all other bliss That God or nature hath assigned. " I press to bear no haughty sway ; I wish... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...405. A mind content both crown and kingdom is. GREENE. — Song, " Sweet are the Thoughts," Last Line. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God or nature hath assign'd : Though much I want, that most... | |
 | Sunday school literature - 1866 - 344 pages
...pinions unimpeded, And wear its glory like a starry crown. The Disciples' Hymn-book. 18. CONTENTMENT. MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That world affords, or grows by kind : Though much I want what most... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...guineas for his annotations upon it. The following vigorous and impressive stanzas are by BYRD : — My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned. Though much I want, that most would... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...their changes tell, But never ranging, still unchanging I adore my bonnie Bell. Burns. CONTENTMENT. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That world affords, or grows by kind : Though much I want what most... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1866 - 528 pages
...drink our morning draught of several wines : I drank nothing but 1 The piece of poetry beginning — " My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find" — was set to music by the celebrated W. Byrd, in 1558, in a book culled Psalm*, Sonnets, and Songs... | |
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