Leisure is a poem by Welsh

Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

 poet William Henry Davies, appearing originally in his Songs Of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology Collected Poems, also published by Fifield in 1916.

Structure

The poem is written as a set of seven rhyming couplets.

Importance

Davies is generally best known for the opening two lines of the poem. It has appeared in most of his own anthologies and in many general anthologies of poems, including:

• Book of a Thousand Poems, published by Peter Bedrick Books in 1983
• Anglo-Welsh Poetry, published by Poetry Wales Press in 1984
• Common Ground, published by Carcanet in 1989
• A Poem a Day, published by Steer Forth in 1996