daffodils / William Wordsworth

Words from William Wordsworth

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What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? WP, I am hijacking this DP as we’ve written about our lesuire time recently enough. Thank you.

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 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 (1770~1850)

8 thoughts on “Words from William Wordsworth”

  2. I get transported. Temporarily. Blissfully.
    I never enjoy the return,
    reality is far too rigid
    after such soft, floating beauty.

    So thank you for this one.
    A magical, dreamy detour indeed,
    one that will flash upon my inward eye
    long after the daffodils have stopped dancing.

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