I wandered lonely as a cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

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 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 stretch''d 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.