Cowslips And Larks

by William Henry Davies — a poem card from Justes Mots

A tribute to the speaker's aesthetic and spiritual nourishment from nature's small beauties—cowslips and singing larks—in a landscape others call poor. Davies celebrates his ability to find profound joy in humble pastoral scenes despite approaching storms and distant hills, emphasizing how perception and inner richness matter more than external conditions. The poem serves those seeking encouragement to find beauty and sustenance in life's simpler offerings.

I hear it said yon land is poor,
In spite of those rich cowslips there -
And all the singing larks it shoots
To heaven from the cowslips' roots.
But I, with eyes that beauty find,
And music ever in my mind,
Feed my thoughts well upon that grass
Which starves the horse, the ox, and ass.…

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