“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 1 (1798).
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William Wordsworth 306
English Romantic poet 1770–1850Related quotes
“We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.”
To the Daisy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.”
Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 1, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown…”
Source: Greene's Farewell to Folly (1591)
Context: 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”
“But Zeus does not bring to accomplishment all thoughts in men's minds.”
XVIII. 328 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Part XIX
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
An Elegie; or Friend's Passion for his Astrophill, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Not sad because you lost me
But sad because you thought it was cool to be sad”
See You When You're 40
Song lyrics, Life for Rent (2003)
