Content is wealth the riches of the mind

DMI number:

5512

Poem Aliases

Wife of Bath.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Content is wealth the riches of the mind

Last Line:

Sits sadly pining and believes he's poor

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Couplet

Themes:

The happy man / contentment

Related People

Author:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Dryden's Wife of Bath; Calif. VII (2000): 477.

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Sits sadly pining and believes he's poor

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Content's the riches of the mind

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And happy he who can that Treasure find

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Content/Publication

Title:

Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]

Page No(s):

p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]

Page No(s):

p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryd.

Attributed To:

John Dryden