Sunday, 9 February 2020

Daffodils and William Wordworth

I have just taken a photo of a bunch of daffodils that we bought for the grand sum of 95p the other day.  They have opened beautifully and are lighting up the room divider. It set me thinking about William Wordsworth's poem.  I never knew that there are two slightly different versions.  I think this is my favourite version.
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.



2 comments:

  1. Lovely daffs!
    That's the version I know too. I remember having to learnt the first verse at school and have never forgotten it.
    xx

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  2. Beautiful. I love this time of year driving around Cornwall as the Daffodils grow wild in the hedges everywhere you go and of course the fields of Cornish Daffodils too. Emmax

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