daffodils
— 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,
