"Daffodils"

  "Daffodils," also well known as "I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud," is known to be one of the most famous poems in the English language from the Romantic era. While taking a walk with his sister Dorothy one April afternoon, Wordsworth noticed a field of daffodils. This inspired him to create one of the most well known poems of all time. For most people, seeing a field full of daffodils would be something common and a sight that the average person wouldn't think twice about. However, it was different when it came to Wordsworth. He thought of it in a more special way. Wordsworth is able to describe what he felt when he saw this field of flowers and be able to pen down the beauty and happiness that he had when he witnessed it.

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:

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.