Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | The Means to attain Happy Life | | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) |
| | | MARTIAL, the things that do attain | |
| The happy life be these, I find,— | |
| The riches left, not got with pain; | |
| The fruitful ground, the quiet mind, | |
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| The equal friend; no grudge, no strife; | 5 |
| No charge of rule, nor governance; | |
| Without disease, the healthful life; | |
| The household of continuance; | |
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| The mean diet, no delicate fare; | |
| True wisdom joined with simpleness; | 10 |
| The night dischargèd of all care, | |
| Where wine the wit may not oppress; | |
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| The faithful wife, without debate; | |
| Such sleeps as may beguile the night; | |
| Contented with thine own estate, | 15 |
| Ne wish for death, ne fear his might. | | | | |
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