Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | Heart-Rest | | Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
| | From “Philip Van Artevelde”
THE HEART of man, walk in which way it will, | |
| Sequestered or frequented, smooth or rough, | |
| Down the deep valleys amongst tinkling flocks, | |
| Or mid the clang of trumpets and the march | |
| Of clattering ordnance, still must have its halt, | 5 |
| Its hour of truce, its instant of repose, | |
| Its inn of rest; and craving still must seek | |
| The food of its affections,—still must slake | |
| Its constant thirst of what is fresh and pure, | |
| And pleasant to behold. | 10 | | | |
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