Poem (I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud)

William Wordsworth was an English poet. His poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud was composed in the early 1800's. It is often nicknamed Daffodils. Here is the poem:

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;

Ten thousand I saw 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.

The poem consists of four stanzas with six verses each. In each stanza the first and third verses, and the second and fourth verses rhyme. All the stanzas conclude with a rhyming couplet. William Wordsworth's poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a very expressive poem about the beauty of daffodils.