Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | Home, Sweet Home | | John Howard Payne (1791–1852) |
| | From “Clari, the Maid of Milan”
MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, | |
| Be it ever so humble, there ’s no place like home; | |
| A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, | |
| Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere. | |
| Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home! | 5 |
| There ’s no place like Home! there ’s no place like Home! | |
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| An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain: | |
| O, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! | |
| The birds singing gayly, that came at my call;— | |
| Give me them,—and the peace of mind, dearer than all! | 10 |
| Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home! | |
| There ’s no place like Home! there ’s no place like Home! | |
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| How sweet ’t is to sit ’neath a fond father’s smile, | |
| And the cares of a mother to soothe and beguile! | |
| Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam, | 15 |
| But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home! | |
| Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home! | |
| There ’s no place like Home! there ’s no place like Home! | |
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| To thee I ’ll return, overburdened with care; | |
| The heart’s dearest solace will smile on me there; | 20 |
| No more from that cottage again will I roam; | |
| Be it ever so humble, there ’s no place like home. | |
| Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home! | |
| There ’s no place like Home! there ’s no place like Home! | |
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