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I wandered lonely as a Cloud…

William Wordsworth

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 dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but the
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:-
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a laughing company:
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
What wealth the shew 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.


William Wordsworth

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19th century poems daffodils flowers Romantics scottish poems spring transcendance
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William Wordsworth1770 - 1850

William Wordsworth is one of the most famous of the first generation of English Romantic poets, and his long autobiographical poem The Prelude  is considered to be perhaps the finest poem of that age. Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798)...
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