Daffodils (1804) - William Wordsworth

One of my very old friends, my classmate, after reading my post on 'Daffodils', emailed me :


It reminds me of the Daffodils poem which Miss Gan taught us in form 2. She had us singing along with it!

Form 2, that was in 1965 !!!! great memory. Together with the email is this poem :

"Daffodils" (1804)

I WANDER'D 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.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

Rydal Mount, where William Wordswrth died in 1850

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.