1 I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
2 That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
3 When all at once I saw a crowd,
4 A host, of golden daffodils;
5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
6 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
8 Continuous as the stars that shine
9 And twinkle on the milky way,
10 They stretched in never-ending line
11 Along the margin of a bay:
12 Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
13 Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
15 The waves beside them danced; but they
16 Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
17 A poet could not but be gay,
18 In such a jocund company:
19 I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
20 What wealth the show to me had brought:
22 For oft, when on my couch I lie
23 In vacant or in pensive mood,
24 They flash upon that inward eye
25 Which is the bliss of solitude;
26 And then my heart with pleasure fills,
27 And dances with the daffodils.