Daffodils

By William Wordsworth

1770-1850


I WANDER'D 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 stretch'd in never-ending line
         Along the margin of a 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.

DayPoems Poem No. 482
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