A Greeting
Poems About Happiness
When I was looking for some good poems about happiness to feature on this site, I came across A Greeting, a lovely verse written by William Henry Davies. It's about feeling the joy inside of you for just being alive. He greets the day... and all of life, being happy in the moment.
A Greeting
by William Henry Davies
GOOD morning, Life--and all
Things glad and beautiful.
My pockets nothing hold,
But he that owns the gold,
The Sun, is my great friend--
His spending has no end.
Hail to the morning sky,
Which bright clouds measure high;
Hail to you birds whose throats
Would number leaves by notes;
Hail to you shady bowers,
And you green field of flowers.
Hail to you women fair,
That make a show so rare
In cloth as white as milk--
Be't calico or silk:
Good morning, Life--and all
Things glad and beautiful.
William Henry Davies (1871 - 1940)
W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer, one of the most popular during his time.
He had an interesting view of life as he spent a significant part of it traveling around the United States and United Kingdom as a tramp and vagabond. The principal themes in Davies' work are the marvels of nature, observations about life's hardships, his own tramping adventures and the various characters that he met during his travels.
More Poems About Happiness by W.H. Davies
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