| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Ah, Sweet Content, Where Is Thy Mild Abode? | | By Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | AH, sweet Content, where, is thy mild abode? | |
| Is it with shepherds and light-hearted swains, | |
| Which sing upon the downs and pipe abroad, | |
| Tending their flocks and cattle on the plains? | |
| Ah, sweet Content, where dost thou safely rest? | 5 |
| In heaven with angels which the praises sing | |
| Of him that made and rules at his behest | |
| The minds and hearts of every living thing? | |
| Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold? | |
| Is it in churches with religious men | 10 |
| Which please the gods with prayers manifold, | |
| And in their studies meditate it then? | |
| Whether thou dost in heaven, or earth appear, | |
| Be where thou wilt, thou wilt not harbour here! | | | | |
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