| PLOWRIGHT WORLD Poetry Section - Wordsworth |
| I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD 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 the 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 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 solitutde; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. William Wordsworth; 1770 - 1850 |