WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.


"I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD"

I 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 a bay: 10
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, 20
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

1804.

This is one of my favourite poems. I find it just magic.Whenever I read it I experience an enormeous mixture of marvellous feelings, I can feel the soft breeze, I can smell the water, I can experience a good sensation as if I were taking part in that walk with them. It is something difficult to explain but there some times in my life , there are some times during the year when I need to read it. And this is one of those times so I have searched the net because I remembered the first time I had the chance to visit the most wonderful web page about Wordsworth and thanks goodness I have found it, so now I can keep it in my blog and share it with all of you ,poetry lovers.

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/daffodil.htm