'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth

'Daffodils'
William Wordsworth

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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

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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

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The waves beside them danced;but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be so gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed - and gazed - but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

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For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon the inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

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