 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 have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.  The Saturday Magazine - Página 2441835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 páginas
...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 I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assign'd : Though much I want that most would... | |
 | 1863 - 478 páginas
...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 I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assign'd: Though much I want that most would... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 páginas
...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 - 1866 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 344 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 páginas
...pleasures, we see, Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we. Cowper. 85. — 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 páginas
...love good-morrow, Sing, birds, in every furrow. — THOMAS HEYWOOD (1580). MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assigned : Though much I want that most would... | |
 | Western Reserve Historical Society - 1877 - 552 páginas
...have, after all, considerable happiness; and, to quote Dr. Hayden again, he could say with Byrd : " My mind to me a kingdom is. Such perfect joy therein I find." CC BALDWIN. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL WHITTLESEY'S PUBLICATIONS. The following list of Colonel Whittlesey's... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...ME." [From WILLIAM BYRD'S songs, £c., about the year 1588. Little is known of this writer.] A l\ Y mind to me a kingdom is, •*•-*• Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assign'd : Though much I want that most would... | |
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