THE DAFFODILS; OR, I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

by: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

      WANDERED lonely as a cloud
      That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
      When all at once I saw a crowd,
      A host, of golden daffodils;
      Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
      Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
       
      Continuous as the stars that shine
      And twinkle on the milky way,
      They stretched in never-ending line
      Along the margin of the bay:
      Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
      Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
       
      The waves beside them danced; but they
      Out-did the sparkling waves in glee
      A poet could not but be gay,
      In such a jocund company
      I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
      What wealth the show to me had brought:
       
      For oft, when on my couch I lie
      In vacant or in pensive mood,
      They flash upon that inward eye
      Which is the bliss of solitude;
      And then my heart with pleasure fills,
      And dances with the daffodils.

'The Daffodils; or, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' is reprinted from English Poems. Ed. Edward Chauncey Baldwin. New York: American Book Company, 1908.

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