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Poems Of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Contentment

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Contentment

'Man wants but little here below.'

Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone (A very plain brown stone will do) That I may call my own; - And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun.

Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten; - If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice; - My choice would be vanilla - ice.

I care not much for gold or land; - Give me a mortgage here and there, - Some good bank - stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad ...

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