I wandered lonely as a cloud

Out of the blue, I fell back in time to remember one of the poems I’ve leaned in post-school years. It is a song by : William Wordsworth and the Poem is “I Wandered Lonely as a cloud”.

I vaguely remember the teacher who taught it but few lines in the poem still causes by mind to wader like a lonely cloud over o’er vales and hills.

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.

Though I haven’t seen Daffodils in my life, these lines paints in me a beautiful picture of this flower. I think most you too would share the same emotional pang when going through this wonderful poem.

Let me not talk much but share this poem to all of you.

I Wandered Lonely as a cloud –

by: 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.