Daffodils

When I see the blooming daffodils, golden heads dancing in the breezes, the last few lines of a poem I read in 7th or 8th grade almost always floats into my mind. It is aptly called:

DAFFODILS

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)

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About Chantel Brankshire

An ordinary country girl living a wonderfully ordinary life. She loves, laughs, lives and she writes. She married her best friend and enjoys "keeps house", gardening, cooking from scratch and creating things in the little corner of the south that she and her husband currently call home.

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