Daffodils

William Wordsworth was an English romantic poet. One of his most famous poems is Daffodils. Here it is:

Daffodils

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 the 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 is written in iambic tetrameter. Each of the four stanzas ends with a rhyming couplet. William Wordsworth's poem Daffodils is a testament to the beauty of nature.