Poems About Health

Let these poems about health remind you how important it is to take care of yourself. If you lose your health no amount of money can buy it back.

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Drink Me A Health
Poet: Unknown

April, cold with dropping rain,
Bring the lilacs back again.
Whistle of returning buds
Trumpet lowing of the herds!

Newer life and fuller love.
Bring it, April, from above.
I wish it were summer
With roses a-bloom -

Heigh-ho! Heigh-ho! Heigh-hey! -
That lilies would open
Their cups of perfume.
And drink me a health to-day.

Health Be Yours
Poet: Unknown

Hence, kindly wish, fly away, fly away,
Find me the one I think of to-day!
Fly then no longer, but linger and say
"Health be yours, joy be yours,
Ever and aye."

Little Things
Poet: Charles W. Stevenson

Here's to the one who loves to do
The little things of life,
Who lets no large ambition woo
Him into worldly strife;
A kindly man content to work
At any useful task,
Who has no duties he would shirk,
No favors he would ask.

Here's to the man, where'er he be!
And O, Thou gentle One,
Remember, in Thy ministry,
The good that he has done,
The happy words, the helpful deeds,
So tender and so true!
For those who have no selfish needs,
Alas, are all too few.

Ah, he who takes a humble part,
In trade, in church, in state,
And lets no envy fill his heart
With hatred for the great,
Can watch the wheel of fortune roll
Its luckless favors out,
Conscious that he has won his soul
Who conquers care and doubt.

This health to him! - who learns to feel
That little things in life
Make up the best of human weal,
The worst of human strife;
Who hides his anger in a smile,
His worry in good cheer,
And lives without a trace of guile,
And dies without a fear!

Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley

Wealth and Health
Poet: Unknown

But I'll pack the sweet remembrance
Of dear Friendship's least delight;
All my jokes - I'll carry them hence;
All my store of fancies bright;

My contentment - would 'twere greater!
All the courage I possess;
All my trust - there's not much weight there!
All my faith, or more, or less;

All my tasks! I'll not abandon
One of these, my pride, my health;
Every trivial or grand one
Is a noble mine of wealth.

And I'll pack my choicest treasures.
Smiles I've seen and praises heard,
Memories of unselfish pleasures,
Cheery looks, the kindly word.

Ah, my riches silence cavil!
To my rags I bid adieu!
Like a Croesus I shall travel
From the old year to the new!

Of Joy and Health
Poet: Unknown

Fast, so fast for you he's flying, -
One small bird I know,
Gathering from the Spring-time woodland
Wishes, where they grow.

This whole green earth of Spring is God's embodied wish for man.
The glad green earth holds her sparkling cup; -
May thine be a brimming measure,
Of joy and health, mayhap of wealth
And every cherished treasure!

Life's Bill Of Fare
Poet: Edgar A. Guest

Enough to eat, a time for play,
And clothes to keep the wind away;
At night a place to go to rest,
And health and strength for every test.
What more than these doth life contain?
Then why this constant strife for gain?

What more has king or prince today,
Or he, three times a millionaire,
Than food to eat and hours for play,
A place to sleep and clothes to wear?
Sum up life's favors as you will,
It is for these we fight and kill.

And he three times a millionaire,
And he upon the heights sublime,
Like you and me, can only wear
One suit of clothing at a time,
Once satisfy his appetite,
Then richest foods mean no delight.

And so, if you have these, I say,
Envy no man his hoarded store;
Contented, journey on your way,
You will not happier be with more.
Enough to eat, some clothes to wear,
A place to sleep - life's bill of fare.

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