Leisure by W.H Davies - Summary

The speaker wonders whether a life offering every comfort and luxury is worthwhile (perfect) if one doesn't have enough time to stand relaxed and appreciate a wonderful sight. 

If one doesn't have the time to stand below a branch of a tree and stare at the grazing sheep and cows in the open pasture, then it is a pitiful life, no matter how wealthy one is.

How dull a life could be when he can't even explore a forest/woods that he passes by often and doesn't have the time to solve the mystery of seeking the place where squirrels hid their nuts in grass.

A man's hurried life in which he can't even look at a beautiful girl and appreciate her physical elegance and her dance, then that man is missing the little joys of life. His hasty manner will prevent him from waiting to enjoy the girl's fully formed smile that begins with her eyes and reaches her mouth forming a mesmerizing portrait. These little joys account for the true happiness one can attain because bigger and special reasons to be happy either never or rarely come in life.

The narrator pities such life, who have everything but not enough time to utilize his liberty of "having enough" i.e. to stand and stare at a beautiful thing.

The poet argues for a life without haste. The poet Davies, a Welsh poet, resembles John Keats in appreciation of things of beauty. 

We can understand his poetic message by relating to his own life as he was a tramp. According to Wikipedia, a tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round. 

This shows that he was a non-materialist who lived as a wanderer and his refusal to lead a regular life and his autobiography "The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp" (1908) affirms his philosophy.