I wandered lonely as a cloud.../daffodil

William 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 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.